{"id":1642,"date":"2010-07-24T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T15:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sabolc.com\/blog\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2010-07-24T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T15:15:19","slug":"just-a-little-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabolc.com\/blog\/just-a-little-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a little test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I am just playing around with the new speech recognition function in Windows 7.\u00a0 I am not even touching the keyboard.\u00a0 Of course, the typing is not the perfect all the time.\u00a0 The computer makes mistakes.\u00a0 But the funny thing is, that if I go and correct the mistakes it is making less and less of them.\u00a0 And, of course, I had to train the computer a little.\u00a0 But it only took about 5 minutes, significantly less than anytime before.\u00a0 And the correction functions are much easier to use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Because this is not the first time that I tried to use voice recognition.\u00a0 I played around with IBM VoiceType and ViaVoice, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, both in English and Japanese.\u00a0 But they were always difficult to use and not really good for any practical application.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What is interesting, that recognition works pretty well in spite of the fact that I&#8217;m not a native English speaker.\u00a0 I could not help registering two users of myself: an American English speaking version and a British English speaking version.\u00a0 Of course, I am neither: my English is somewhere in between, probably a bit more American.\u00a0 But I do know that I pronounce a number of words the wrong, i.e.\u00a0 the British way.\u00a0 Anyway, after the training the computer got used to my way of pronouncing words.\u00a0 And now it is doing surprisingly well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Homework for tomorrow: I should try to use voice recognition in Japanese as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I am just playing around with the new speech recognition function in Windows 7.\u00a0 I am not even touching the keyboard.\u00a0 Of course, the typing is not the perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikkuri","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabolc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabolc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabolc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabolc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabolc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabolc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabolc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabolc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabolc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}