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Friday, June 03, 2005

Speech Recognition Software

I haven't discussed speech recognition software as part of a paperless office strategy. If speech recognition software works well, the office could be "keyboardless" as well as "paperless".

When visiting my dentist, the assistant was using speech recognition software. It was clearly a great time savings. Dropping the dental instruments to document an issue would take up plenty of time or would take a second person.

PC Magazine 6/7/05, pg. 52, discusses Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 8. It indicates a 95% recognition rate. That stikes me as pretty good. ViaVoice version 10 recognizes about 70% according to the same article.

I get frequent calls about paperless office issues. These calls are usually about scanners, software and PDF files. I have never been asked about speech recognition software. Speech recognition software sounds like a great concept if it can work.

Any comments on speech recognition software would be appreciated.

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