tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post3596747966356590532..comments2024-03-07T23:20:49.790-07:00Comments on Genealogy's Star: Is Handwriting Recognition the Holy Grail of Genealogy?James Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-78457384330739661112013-11-20T14:50:17.621-07:002013-11-20T14:50:17.621-07:00In addition, I recently bought Dragon Naturally Sp...In addition, I recently bought Dragon Naturally Speaking. It is terrible and worthless on cassette to digital recognition for deceased relatives voices. I hope to use it to read some family stories into rather than having to type them from the handwriting. If it works, it will be worth the purchase. I think it will be ok with my own voice directly to the program.<br /><br />Do you know of anything better that can be bought or where the idustry is going for voice recognition?<br /><br />I don't like transcribing hour long interviews so genearally I haven't.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09108246378388789103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-8858708007728043402013-11-20T14:43:56.381-07:002013-11-20T14:43:56.381-07:00This is wonderful. I mentioned writing recognition...This is wonderful. I mentioned writing recognition in one of my posts for RootsTech 2013. FamilySearch had sponsored some research on it in 2011 as I recall though this is one area of research that has been too tight-lipped in the genealogical community. The presentation at RootsTech wasn't evenin the schedule. <br /><br />Thanks for your post.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09108246378388789103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-69202068155561399472013-11-20T10:41:02.666-07:002013-11-20T10:41:02.666-07:00I'm very sceptical about handwriting recogniti...I'm very sceptical about handwriting recognition James. It seems OCR cannot accurately interpreted newspaper print, even when near words are in frequent use and listed in the dictionary [There must be a whole topic there for one of us].<br /><br />Back in the early 1980s, one of my colleagues was experimenting with an early VR system, and trying to train it to understand him. Thus guy was from Liverpool, and spoke extremely quickly with a very strong regional accent. Our team decided that if that VR system worked then we would stick a goldfish bowl over his head and incorporate the VR system to translate so that we could all understand him. :-)Tony Proctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18330460400737261264noreply@blogger.com