[ExI] Help needed--with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

[BillK]

On 8/9/07, Damien Broderick wrote:
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> I gather that Vista has speech recognition bundled.# If so, anyone
> had any luck with it? I have to say that after training it I found
> DNS quite accurate--part of the training being of *me*, as the
> program shapes my enunciation toward crisper clarity.
>

NY Times review says Dragon Naturally Speaking v9 is better.
<http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/telling-your-computer-what-to-do/>

LifeHacker seems to agree.
<http://lifehacker.com/software/speech-recognition/using-windows-vista-speech-recognition-240730.php>

The user comments below both articles are interesting to read also.

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Footnote:
Please don't think about upgrading to Vista.  You will enter a world
of computer pain. The web is full of reports about Vista problems.

This new article gives a good overall summary.
<http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/broken_windows.html>

Quotes:
The Vista experience is broken. It's long past time to fix it.
Not since Windows ME or Mac OS X 10.0 have I observed a more troubled
consumer operating system.
etc.

BillK