[MV] DNS on Mac on Parallels

[John F. Richardson]

Hello,

Perhaps you can arrange for Gavin and Valerie to contact those people off
list and they can relate their experience to Gavin and Valerie (and anyone
else).

I use iListen. I do not use DNS simply because I use iListen every now and
then for research so I have no desire to spend extra money, except on
iListen accessories. I'm only interested in dictating into SuperCard or
Robolab scrolling or text fields.

The bottom line here obviously is that people can use an angelic Macintosh
for speech recognition and that there are 2 solutions.

John F. Richardson

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:macvoice-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of Chuck
Rogers
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 6:29 PM
To: A place to discuss speech recognition on Macintosh.
Subject: Re: [MV] DNS on Mac on Parallels

Gavin (and everyone else):

I would if I could - all I can tell you is that I contacted some  
people who use DNS and that's what they told me. They weren't  
specific about the actual commands. What I was told was that Dragon,  
like iListen, has a "Command Only" mode, and they also have a "trick"  
for forcing the program to do dictation when it incorrectly here's a  
command (although they didn't tell me what it was). So obviously, it  
must be a big enough issue for the company to provide a solution for it.

This is one of those things where them being in business more years  
has allowed them to provide more bells and whistles. And, of course,  
the fact they haven't had to rewrite much of their code for Windows  
compatible hardware or software in the past 14 years has given them a  
lot more time than we have had to make improvements in the core  
functionality of their program.



Best Regards,

Chuck Rogers, Chief Evangelist
MacSpeech, Inc.




On May 8, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Gavin Wynford-Jones wrote:

> Chuck, please give an example or two of these famous "not very  
> intuitive" commands. I have yet to come across any myself, you see...
>
> Gavin
>
> On 8 May 2007, at 17:53, Chuck Rogers wrote:
>
>> Jonathan (and everyone else):
>>
>> I did a little digging and those who are more familiar with using  
>> DNS than I say that the trade off for using commands embedded in  
>> dictation mode is that the commands tend to be very carefully  
>> worded - and not always very intuitive - in order to insure they  
>> are not mis-recognized as dictation. (I alluded to this in an  
>> earlier email, but have since had it confirmed by others.) Having  
>> a command mode means that the command name itself can be much more  
>> natural and easier to remember.
>>
>> As I said, you can always say "One Shot Command" which throws you  
>> into Command mode for one command, and then immediately takes you  
>> back to Dictation mode.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Chuck Rogers, Chief Evangelist
>> MacSpeech, Inc.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 7, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Jonathan Levi, M.D. wrote:
>>
>>> At 9:21 AM -0500 5/7/07, Chuck Rogers wrote:
>>>> Ian (and everyone else):
>>>>
>>>> As Joe pointed out, having commands intermingled in dictation  
>>>> mode could cause huge problems...
>>>
>>> ViaVoice has a single mode for both dictation and commands;  
>>> usually, it isn't a problem. On the other hand, I also finding  
>>> myself gradually getting more used to switching modes with  
>>> iListen. This really doesn't appear to be a big issue to me,  
>>> either way. --Jonathan
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