Re: debugging problems with speech recognition

Hi Eric,
          I just check MicroSoft Word. Shift-Left selects the
character to the left of the caret, control-shift-left selects the
word to left of the caret. This is exactly the same as AbiWord.
Unfortunately it looks like getting "Naturally Speaking" to work fully
with AbiWord is not as simple as rebinding keystrokes.

Martin

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Eric S. Johansson <esj@harvee.org> wrote:
>
> Martin Sevior wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> In AbiWord shift-left selects a single character to the left of the caret.
>>
>> Control-Shift-Left arrow selects the word to the left of the caret.
>>
>> Is there some way Naturally Speaking can be programmed to emit
>> contrl-shift-left on "scratch that"
>
> no. Nuance locks things down pretty hard. The license agreement even forbids
> you from adding any third-party add-on which gives the cheaper version the
> same capabilities as a more expensive version. The market could really use
> competition. Problem being that there aren't enough customers to fund the
> massive amount of research and software development necessary to support two
> companies. About 10 years ago give or take IBM and Dragon Systems went
> head-to-head and moved from a reseller model to a direct sales model in
> computer stores. Revenue dropped like a stone, resources for development
> vanished, IBM off the market, and we almost lost Dragon Systems. Then people
> got greedy and Dragon was sold, went through bankruptcy, and then sold again
> to the company now known as nuance.
>
> And before you ask, an open-source version of NaturallySpeaking would cost
> tens of millions of dollars and decades of work not to mention numerous
> patent lawsuits. I figure I have only 15 or 20 years worth of work life left
> before my disability robs me of most computer use (sans speech recognition).
> I don't have time to wait on many things and I certainly have no time to
> wait on OSS speech recognition.  end result is that I have to put up with
> what nuance will deliver, what changes I can advocate for, and it's damn
> frustrating.  one of the things that significantly improve my quality of
> life is editors I can use with speech recognition. Nuance only supports
> Microsoft Word and maybe Corel WordPerfect but from what I hear, support
> should be put in between air quotes. I'd like to see something solid but
> that's a whole different discussion.
>
> And yes, one side effect of speech recognition uses that you tend to talk a
> lot.  :-)
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Received on Mon Nov 30 06:48:37 2009