The dangers of Dragon Speak

[Kevy Baby]

My boss uses Dragon Speak. This is a voice recognition package for your computer that allows you to (amongst other things), dictate your typing. Unfortunately, he often does not proofread his work before sending.

In a recent email to a client, he accidentally sent the message before finishing. He then competed the email and resent it (and copied me). In the beginning of the email, he tried to explain the voice recognition error. His explanation closed with this sentence:

This email was not proof read & I use a voice recognition system for dictation so there are some words ago makes sense believes you know what happened!
As much as I would like to believe he wrote it this way intentionally for humour, he didn't. "Let me explain how I screwed up by screwing up the same way again."

:rolleyes:

[mousepod]

Hey, it's hard to wreck a nice beach.

[Ghoulish Delight]

With my dad's vision and reading problems following his stroke, we bought him a laptop and Dragon Speak. We had a contact within the company, so someone actually came out to help him get it set up to work as well as possible for him. I should ask him or my mom how well it has been working. I've heard no complaints, but haven't asked directly about it. But it seems like it's done the trick, which was to allow him to go ahead with his retirement plan of continuing to author and edit language text books. That was the most terrifying aspect about all that, that he might have lost the ability to continue that. There's a lot of give and take with most technological advances (solves one problem only to create another), but this one was definitely a godsend for him.

[Gn2Dlnd]

I thought Kevy's children had started talking.

[Capt Jack]

that has to be how those 'poetry of spam' messages get written.

[mousepod]

...you sing calm incense.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Too bad there isn't one called Parsssssel Tongue. All your ssssspeech would be transsssscribed like thissssss.

[Disneyphile]

Sounds more like Pigeon Speak to me!

[DisneyFan25863]

I didn't even know they sold Dragon Speak anymore.

[Not Afraid]

Looks normal to me. ;)

[Gn2Dlnd]

Sounds more like Pigeon Speak to me!

Gemini? Any thoughts?

[Kevy Baby]

I didn't even know they sold Dragon Speak anymore.Yep. They're up to version 9. Several different flavors available.

The actual product name is "Dragon Naturally Speaking"

[Gemini Cricket]

Gemini? Any thoughts?
Let's see in Pidgin Speak this:
This email was not proof read & I use a voice recognition system for dictation so there are some words ago makes sense believes you know what happened!would be this:
Dis email no stay proof read & I use one voice da kine for dictation so deah some words dat no make sense li dat.;)

[RStar]

When installing Dragon and in the testing phase, it said my sound system was inadiquate. I got a new mike, but that didn't fix it. I pluged it into the sound card and also tried it in the front. I can play music from my hardrive, websites, and CDs with no problem. What's up with that??

[parkfreak]

Yep. They're up to version 9.


version 9 Mo Bettah! :p

[RStar]

version 9 Mo Bettah! :p

I've only got version 7. **pouts**