Speech Recognition on your iPhone?
Mark Conrad
As you know, I never blow smoke up your skirts,
I tell you the bad as well as the good.
Speech recognition on your iPhone?
Not quite, but you can record an audio file, then
LATER, when you get access to a Mac, convert
that audio file to text automatically.
Beats typing it up from the audio recording.
Here is a video about how to get it to work:
<http://www.skillcasting.com/dictating-with-your-iphone-and-dragon-natur
ally-speaking/>
As you can see, it involves a LOT of expense,
and a fair amount of geek work.
Only a really dedicated iPhone user would
consider doing this.
Mark-
Mark Conrad
Michelle Steiner <mich...@michelle.org> wrote:
> > Speech recognition on your iPhone?
> >
> > Not quite,
>
> <http://www.dragonmobileapps.com/apple/dictation.html>
Thanks, was not aware of that.
Appears that an iPhone user has to do the SR while he
is actually onlne, otherwise the app will not work?
Any charge for the online SR service right now?
(bet they will charge for it later,
when they get enough people "hooked")
Up to now, I had no uses here for an iPhone, however
if that little app really works, I will consider buying
an iPhone.
Mark-
Ian Gregory
> Speech recognition on your iPhone?
>
> Not quite, but you can record an audio file, then
> LATER, when you get access to a Mac, convert
> that audio file to text automatically.
If you get the Nuance Dragon Dictation App from the App Store then there
is no need to wait till LATER or have access to any computer. The App
allows iPhone users to speak emails and text messages instead of typing
them. It works by sending the audio to a speech recognition server at
Nuance where it is converted to text and sent straight back to your
iPhone. You can find out about it on the Dragon Mobile Apps website:
http://www.dragonmobileapps.com/
Ian
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Ian Gregory
http://www.zenatode.org.uk/ian/
salgud
> In article <060120100846365505%ae...@mostly.invalid>,
> Mark Conrad <ae...@mostly.invalid> wrote:
>
>>> <http://www.dragonmobileapps.com/apple/dictation.html>
>>
>> Thanks, was not aware of that.
>>
>> Appears that an iPhone user has to do the SR while he
>> is actually onlne, otherwise the app will not work?
>>
>> Any charge for the online SR service right now?
>
> No charge for it right now. I just gave it a try; it doesn't insert any
> punctuation, which means that there would need to be a lot of editing.
I've tried it a couple of times, and found I have to keep my vocabulary
basic. Start using erudite terms like "erudite" and it chokes. YMMV.
Mark Conrad
<f...@prdetfanaaeextna.invalid> wrote:
> > Speech recognition on your iPhone?
> >
> > Not quite, but you can record an audio file, then
> > LATER, when you get access to a Mac, convert
> > that audio file to text automatically.
>
> If you get the Nuance Dragon Dictation App from the App Store then there
> is no need to wait till LATER or have access to any computer. The App
> allows iPhone users to speak emails and text messages instead of typing
> them. It works by sending the audio to a speech recognition server at
> Nuance where it is converted to text and sent straight back to your
> iPhone. You can find out about it on the Dragon Mobile Apps website:
>
> http://www.dragonmobileapps.com/
>
> Ian
Thanks, I have not kept up with iPhone news, was not
even aware "Dragon Mobile" existed.
Smart marketing by Nuance, if an iPhone user gets hooked
and wants more speech features, they would be inclined to buy
full blown Dragon, (or MacSpeech, which uses the Dragon
speech engine) - Nuance already gets a "cut" whenever
any Mac user buys MacSpeech.
If Nuance was _really_ smart, they would dribble in
more features to the Dragon Mobile app, easy enough
to do if I was running their marketing.<g>
Features like allowing an iPhone user to add proper-names
and phrases like "normotriglyceridemic abetalipoproteinemia"
such that the Nuance server would recognize all that crap
the very next time the iPhone user came online.
Like I said, easy enough to do, technically speaking, and it
would ensure that an iPhone user became "hooked".
Even iPhone-user "speech macros" would be easy to
implement on the Nuance server, that would allow
an iPhone user to speak the trip-term, such as
the word "doctors", which would produce all the
following text:
(without the right-carat
at the beginning of each line, of course)
> Hirokuni Arai, MD, PhD*, Fusahiko Itoh, MD, Takeshi
> Someya, MD, Keiji Oi, MD, PhD, Kiyoshi Tamura, MD,
> PhD, Hiroyuki Tanaka, MD, PhD
>
>
> Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical and
> Dental University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo,
> Japan
>
>
>
> * Address correspondence to Dr Arai, Department of
> Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental
> University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-5-45 Yushima,
> Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8519, Japan Email:
> hiro...@tmd.ac.jp
Nuance, are you listening!
Gawd, all my talents are wasted here, trying to beat sense
into recalcitrant Mac users.
Mark-