[MV] Which Voice Recog Software for Transcribing

[Margaret Klein]

Thanks.  I'll keep you posted on my progress.  Like I said, if I can get
this to work, it'll be a real gem!


> From: Joseph Senecal <JSenecal at aol.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss speech recognition on Macintosh."
> <macvoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:46:59 -0800
> To: "A place to discuss speech recognition on Macintosh."
> <macvoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [MV] Which Voice Recog Software for Transcribing
> 
> I'm going from memory here so I might not have button names exactly
> right.
> 
>> First, when I have the correction window open and there's a list of
>> words to
>> choose from, my question is, after I click the right word (or type
>> in the
>> word he means) is this a "saved" correction so that when the
>> program hears
>> that word in the future, it will get it right?
> 
> Yes corrections affect future recognition after changes are committed
> (when the document is closed). In my experience, the number of times
> you need to correct it can vary widely. Sometimes iListen gets it
> right the next time, sometimes it needs to be corrected dozens of
> times. But it does learn eventually. For difficult to recognize words
> or phrases, you can see the progress that corrections make as the
> correct choice moves up on the list of choices.
> 
>> Also, how does the other
>> correction option of "What I say" work?  I reviewed the manual, but
>> it's not
>> clear.
> 
> The "What I Say" area is where you enter new words during correction.
> If you type a word that iListen doesn't know in the option 1 box, it
> will switch to "What I Say" automatically. You can also do so anytime
> you wish.
> 
> The top text box is what you want iListen to type for this new word.
> Make sure capitalization is right in that box (for example, if it was
> the first word in the sentence, it would be capitalized, which
> probably is not how you want it to learn the word). The second box is
> what you'll be saying. The third box is the phonetic version of
> what's in the second box. If you change the text in the second box,
> you press the "Make Phonetic" button to convert it to phonetics. Or
> you can edit the phonetics directly.
> 
> What I usually do is either accept what iListen offers, or enter
> words that have the sounds I want and then remove the unwanted sounds
> from the phonetic box.
> 
> When you're happy with it, push the button to learn the new word.
> This happens immediately, even before corrections are committed. You
> can then switch back to the normal correction mode. Sometimes when
> you teach iListen a new word, the text on the left will get garbled.
> Just click the done button and then restart correction to fix that.
> 
> 
> Chuck answered your other questions better than I can.
> 
> Joe Senecal
> 
> Long time user of iListen.
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