Victoria started talking on someone's Mac and everyone is going bananas. When did I start working with superstitious nomads? Eeee the god-voices talk to us
It's interesting how the Mac's speech synthesizer works really well, even with longer more complex words, yet it screws up some of the simple ones .. like 'job'.
On the other end of things -- I actually tried out the mac's built in speech recognition system. I'd keep it running however it had a bad habit of crashing my Mac so it remains off. When I had it on I found it neccesary to take a few of the commands and put them in a folder I named 'Unmentionables' to disable them... such as: "Put this computer to sleep", and "Quit all applications".
I've been thinking of getting a more professional voice recognition/dictation program. Tie that into a telnet/ssh program running a MUCK session. I've seen a few advertized. I don't know much about them except that for the price I could get other more useful things for my computer.
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More Mac and Speech
Date: 2003-01-29 03:38 pm (UTC)On the other end of things -- I actually tried out the mac's built in speech recognition system. I'd keep it running however it had a bad habit of crashing my Mac so it remains off. When I had it on I found it neccesary to take a few of the commands and put them in a folder I named 'Unmentionables' to disable them... such as: "Put this computer to sleep", and "Quit all applications".
I've been thinking of getting a more professional voice recognition/dictation program. Tie that into a telnet/ssh program running a MUCK session. I've seen a few advertized. I don't know much about them except that for the price I could get other more useful things for my computer.