Voice Recognition PDA ?

Xee · 27 Nov 2006 at 16:27

Does such a PDA exist that has voice recognition capability? ie. I could talk into as I walk about and it types it up. Or any other hand held device.

Cheers

edit* on 2nd thoughts not sure if this is the right section to post in... mods?

MetA · 27 Nov 2006 at 17:48

Do you need it to do it in real time ?

I use my PDA to do the voice recording and then NaturallySpeaking on my PC to do the recognition.

Worked well for over 6 years now

Energize · 27 Nov 2006 at 21:27

Any pda with a mic can do this.

leaskovski · 28 Nov 2006 at 09:32

MS Voice Command, will allow you to do some things using voice recognition.

tonyyeb · 28 Nov 2006 at 10:01

leaskovski said:
MS Voice Command, will allow you to do some things using voice recognition.

I agree. I had voice command 1.5 which was great. Answer calls, reads out the number of the person calling etc... And version 1.6 is out now.

Xee · 28 Nov 2006 at 13:15

Energize said:
Any pda with a mic can do this.

Could you give an example of a product?

MetA said:
Do you need it to do it in real time ?
I use my PDA to do the voice recording and then NaturallySpeaking on my PC to do the recognition.

Worked well for over 6 years now

No I don't need real time, but something that has a fast turn around when back at the office. Is this method fairly accurate? ...and is it just a file that you upload to your PC into the NaturallySpeaking software?

Basically I have people needing to inspect buildings. So lots of walking around, and would like them to be able to have some small light weight device, that would enable them to produce reports. I was thinking voice recognition, as something like a tablet would be a bit fiddley... or would it?

Any ideas people? Oh and cost is fairly important!

leaskovski · 28 Nov 2006 at 13:29

Ohhhh, so you are going to take voice notes on the PDA, then when you get back to the office, you can play them back and thus turn them into text in say a word document?

Meta said:
I use my PDA to do the voice recording and then NaturallySpeaking on my PC to do the recognition.

Sounds like what you need to look at.

http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/

Xee · 29 Nov 2006 at 03:22

Could someone give me an example of a PDA that would be suitable? I just need a starting point, as I have no clue about PDA's yet.

MetA · 29 Nov 2006 at 09:13

Xee said:
No I don't need real time, but something that has a fast turn around when back at the office. Is this method fairly accurate? ...and is it just a file that you upload to your PC into the NaturallySpeaking software?

Originally I used a voice dictation ANALOG recorder and plugged it into PC and used DragonDictate to capture the mic input and produce a text file.

Now use MP3 player and trasnfer the file over USB. and convert using NaturallySpeaking ( as leaskovski provided link to )

Accuracy SEEMS less than normal as you dont' see it acting in real time and alter voice accordingly.

On average I'd say I'm at 90-95% and often can attribute the errors to background noise in the environment while recording.

But, I'm 10+ years using the technology and have a "more precise" voice when dictating - a bit like my "business call voice".

I'd guess you'll probasbly start at about 80-85% accuracy and it will improve with usage.

Basically I have people needing to inspect buildings. So lots of walking around, and would like them to be able to have some small light weight device, that would enable them to produce reports. I was thinking voice recognition, as something like a tablet would be a bit fiddley... or would it?

Any ideas people? Oh and cost is fairly important!

Cost is least with a simple mp3 recorder ( and your folks will love having a decent mp3 player to use the rest fo the time

) and s/w back at the office.

PsiFox · 29 Nov 2006 at 09:55

My PDA with built in sat nav has a voice function to enter saved destinations.

Useful when on the move.