[X4U] OS X Speech capabilities question

[Matt Gregory]

On 10/7/05, A. Scott McCulloch <mylists at ascottmcculloch.com> wrote:
>
> There are a couple (at least) of different "types" of speech
> recognition... what is built-in to OS X is capable of "recognizing"
> commands (this is similar technology to voice based automated
> telephone systems), but is not capable of "recognizing" the spoken
> word to turn it into text (which requires a very different
> technology). For transcription, you need something like ViaVoice or
> iListen.


Yeah, I can understand now how it might just be a little different to
recognize speech as one of a certain few commands vs. one of possibly
millions from a dictionary.

You can find iListen here: http://www.macspeech.com -- I don't know
> the current status of ViaVoice, it was done by IBM, but I think they
> may have abandoned it.


I took a look at iListen ... but you're right ... it probably won't be of
much help if it can't learn the interviewees voices.

matt.
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