Today I overheard 2 people talking about this piece of technology that sounded pretty neat. Yeah, that's right, neat! It's a machine that types out documents, emails, instant messages and more while you just speak the words. The guy that was talking about it was saying he'd just bought this item for himself, and was explaining that it made very few errors, that it understood several different accents and only costs around 100$. So I looked up this item called Dragon Naturally Speaking, and after watching the demo i was amazed to see the magic it works. According to their representative this item is 99% accurate, it spells complicated words correctly, it can make your type bold, italic etc just by saying so, it even surfs the web for you. You're basically talking to your computer and telling it what to do and where to go, only now it listens. How well does the product work? Im hesitant to say flawlessly. Plus, do we really want to get attached to our computers like that? However it does benefit slow typers, people with disabilities that can't use a keyboard and the classic lazy individual that doesn't feel like typing. Like I said before, it is a pretty neat toy.. but is it much more than that? check it out at http://www.nuance.com/talk/
Speak and it types for you
Posted by sammy on 10/25/2007
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