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Dragon NaturallySpeaking vs Microsoft Speech Recognition
I recently heard from a large reseller of Dragon NaturallySpeaking who thinks
ScanSoftNuance should start giving away Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred - as a response to the competitive threat from the next version of Microsoft speech recognition, to be released with Windows Vista. The theory being that now is the time to get the general market "hooked" on DNS. While it's certainly an easy approach to take, it suffers from a few problems. -
QuickSwitch Basic Released
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Does any beta survive first contact with users?
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OnTime 2005
A few months ago I heard that Axosoft was offering a free single user license for their OnTime Defect Tracking Software. After spending all of five minutes evaluating the software, I decided not to use it as the interface appeared to be conventional, if competent. The real value of bug tracking systems is only realized with multiple users. As a single developer, it's unclear if the value from a bug tracking system exceeds the overhead. So I decided I would just use OneNote, which very nicely lets me organize to do lists, design documents, sketches, and images.
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What is Quick Switch
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managed speech API updates
Robert Brown summarizes some of the issues
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IdentifierCache released as open source
IdentifierCache provides two tools
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Great news for speech developers!
Richard Sprague has been dropping hints about this for some time, and now Robert Brown has made the announcement that the Longhorn speech API has been included into the Avalon/indigo Beta1
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Speech recognition, COM, .Net, Python, and Perl oh-my
The latest release of NatLink/Vocola is available. NatLink enables command and control of Dragon NaturallySpeaking by loading the Python runtime as a global application module in a COM extention. It presents a relatively simple façade to some IUnknown only COM interfaces.
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my speech-recognition wiki has a new name and a new server!
The speech recognition wiki has moved from speech.squidnet.com to speechwiki.org. I changed the domain name because the old root domain had nothing to do with speech-recognition and I also took the opportunity to move to a new hosting company which I'm expecting will provide faster responsiveness and more reliable uptime.
Existing links that point to the old site should automatically direct to the new site. If you discover any errors or mistakes feel free to contact me or leave a message on the feedback page.
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IdentifierCache v0.1.2 - designed to allow users of speech-recognition dictate code identifiers.
I have an update to IdentifierCache; an experimental add-in, designed to allow users of speech-recognition dictate code identifiers.Recent changes- added command 'Remove identifier'
- identifers are now case sensitive
- new Identifiers are added to top
- added option to clear all identifiers from cache
- fixed a bug in the installer
- added some documentation in the configuration dialog
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all this, just to read e-mail
I finally have an e-mail setup that works. It's taken some time and effort, and I have little confidence that this will last for long, but while it does I figure I'll share.
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The most Orwellian word in software
Ted Neward gets it right on his comments about the end of VB support from Microsoft
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Help enable dictation support for Visual Studio
I've created a product suggestion to enable dictation support for Visual Studio
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Is it all about IntelliSense?
I just started doing some work with Python for the first time, it seems like a nice language but I'm still too new to it to make any real judgments. Parenthetically, when did Python overtake Perl as the cool dynamic programming language on the block?
Over the course of evaluating some of the Python IDE's and struggling through the first days of the new programming language, I started to wonder if the success of .Net, and to some extent the debate about statically typed and dynamically typed languages, is really all about IntelliSense.
I mean of course the CLR and the .Net framework are world class bits of engineering, and I imagine the verifiability of statically typed languages is truly useful under some requirements. But for large majority of programming tasks, having your editor tell you the type of the third argument to the function you want call is where the true value of statically typed languages and the .Net Framework is at.
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Avalon CTP - no speech recognition support
I took a brief look at the Avalon CTP tonight. And really, all I want to know, is where is the speech recognition support? It appears that managed support for the Text Services Framework is baked into the System.Windows.Input namespace, and that there's plenty of support for tablet input, but nothing for speech recognition. This is terribly disappointing.
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Wiki Graffiti
I got my first bit of wiki graffiti today, spam I would be able to understand, but this was a simple defacing of the site.
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Programming by voice - Visual Studio.net addin
For some of us coders who suffer from RSI, programming by voice is something of a holy grail. There are a fair number of false starts, and aborted attempts. It's a hard problem, the people who are most likely to want it, and be willing to work on a solution, are the same people who are unable to do so.
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The Last Configuration Section Handler You'll Ever Need, take 4
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The Last Configuration Section Handler You'll Ever Need, take 3
Yet another update the last configuration section handler you will ever need.