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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

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Introducing Our Speech Recognition Writer, John Gannon

- Rob Bushway

As I mentioned several weeks ago, we are rounding out the natural input technologies that we cover on GottaBeMobile.com, by adding speech recognition to our regular content coverage.

Well, good news is in store.

John Gannon has agreed to come on board as a contributing writer for GBM covering speech recognition. As a self-described heavy user of speech recognition, John is going to focus on the day to day usability of speech recognition, training, accessories, and more.

Here is a little background on John. I'll let him introduce himself further with his first post:

John is a a licensed psychologist who specializes in marriage and family issues.  He is also board certified in psychopharmocology. 

John uses a Motion Computing LE1600 as his work computer in his day to day counseling.  He is primarily a Dragon Naturally Speaking user, spending 40+ hours a week on the program. However, I'm sure John will also talk about Vista Speech Recognition and the in's and out's about various Microsoft solution. John describes himself as a "poor and slow typist", thus his heavy reliance on speech recognition technologies.

John has  been married for 26 years with two kids, and sculls 7 miles a day for relaxation.

Welcome aboard, John!



Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:28:30 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Awesome to hear! Welcome, John. I look forward to your expertise.
truc
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:54:46 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Great news and welcome to John!

I look forward to his posts.

While everyone else gets all hot and bothered about "multi-touch" this or "multi-touch" that, I've always been of the opinion the most "natural" way to interact with a computer is through voice.

There are some obvious things voice will never be able to accomplish but, for the majority of daily task, speaking to your computer would be the easiest thing to do.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:52:35 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Welcome, John!
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 5:31:12 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Glad to have you on the GBM team John!

I am truly looking forward to learning about speech from you. Like many people I have played with it years ago, but never kept up with it.

One thing that I would be interested in learning about besides the software are the different microphone options that are available. I have old "cheapo" microphone that is terrible with Vista's speech recognition and I've delayed buying a newer microphone because I am absolutely clueless in regards to what you have to spend to get a decent return in accuracy.
Yonatan
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:07:20 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Yonatan, stay tuned for upcoming articles on microphones. The microphone is a deal breaker for speech recognition. Without a great (not just good) quality microphone you will not have good success. More to come, hope to see you posting with questions. John
John Gannon
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:16:20 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Some laptop and UMPC computers have good built in microphones. My Samsung Q1 has an array mic that seems to be as good or better than the one I wear on my head that came with the program (and at the stores, you can buy mics that are "Dragon approved"). Not having the thing on my head, and not having wires from my head to the computer is a delight. But office supply stores sell the program with a mic, as well as mics that are approved.

But proximity, setting the mic, finding the sweet spot where it hears you without having your p's popped or your d's sound like th's takes a little practice, and then you've got it.
bluespapa
Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:21:01 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Welcome John.

Like many others I bought DNS and while I found the accuracy very good (even with a standard headset), I couldn't get my head around the correction method. It became very frustrating when it refused to recognise what I was saying! I look forward to seeing more articles from you.
John in Norway
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