When Dragon Systems created Dragon Dictate, back in the 1980s, it was for the use of people who were handicapped, who couldnt type for whatever reason. By the time Julian could afford a copy, in the mid-1990s, they had become almost entirely unresponsive to customers, but had created Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which was at least affordable. Fast-forward to now, and Nuance Systems bought Dragon Systems a few years ago, and they entirely focus on professionals who dont want to pay for a secretary, or bother to type. Theyre even less responsive to customers, and for the handicapped, theyve made the program a pain in the ass. As a result, Julian is now frustrated and pissed off, at least in part because the new Dragon NaturallySpeaking threw away his hard-earned training. Great, so it has better voice-recognition algorithms, but that doesnt help a kung fu writer, or a science fiction writer. Now he has to reprogram the stupid thing for Chinese, Korean, Japanese and science terms that it does not have, as well as those occasional made up words that science fiction will have. Hes tried other programs, and this was, in the past, the ONLY one that would accurately (somewhat) transcribe his voice (though, at this point, if I didnt have to work I would happily go back to taking dictation from him). Is there a voice-to-text program that exists from a company that gives a damn about handicapped customers? As for someone else taking dictation from him, maybe its because of the decades Ive been doing it, but others dont seem to have any idea how to transcribe what he says. Granted, I have no problem punctuating to a certain degree, but I also know his vocabulary better than others seem to. Hell, I usually edit his work on Dragon--at best, it still screws up a good bit. Computers dont get homonyms.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 13:38:00 +0000
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