Speech to Text v2.35 allows you to speak while it types what you say either in its own text editor or in MS Word. Your own voice commands turn different functions on and off. Immediately upon opening the Speech to Text program the Speech Recognition Engine appears where you create individual profiles and embark on a training program that will fine tune the engine to recognize your individual speech patterns.
Before downloading Speech to Text be sure to download and install the Microsoft Speech Recognition engine. First, it will lead you to configure your microphone through a series of interactive screens. Next you will be asked to create an unique profile. This profile goes through at least 1 speech recognition training. You read slowly and clearly what is on each successive screen. As the words are highlighted by the engine, you can continue reading the specific training text. It is advised that you go through at least 3 training sessions with the Speech Recognition engine. Remember to speak slowly and enunciate each and every word. You will find the engine keeping up with you this way. If you speed up, you will find the engine lagging way behind and you will have to repeat entire sentences.
Eventually, the Speak-to Text software will appear without the Speech Recognition engine popping up first. No problem, simply go to your Control Panel and double click on the Speech icon. Click on Train Profile and select one of the 8 sessions listed for training. Or, easier yet, click on the 3rd from last icon in the Icon menu.
To turn on the microphone go to Tools menu and select Microphone on/off. Click and you will see a check in front of the menu selection. Another way is to depress the slanted lollipop icon in the middle of the Icon menu.
Tools menu and select on Train word is a way to establish the pronunciation of individual words. Don't expect to use this extensively as a way to train the Speech Recognition engine. Sentence structure is where it is at.
Tools menu and select Setting bring a person to four tabs, General, Greeting, Formatting, and User Commands. Formatting allows you to force all numbers from 0 to 20 as numbers instead of text . You can also do Background noise filtering whereby you Enable filtering of background noise for dictation and/or Enable filtering of background noise for commands.
Additional features:
Save in Word
Open PDF and create PDF
Clear Speech Buffer
Listening for okay, cancel, apply, and tab
Create custom commands
It was enjoyable to have speech recognition by this software at least 60% of the time after the first three Speech Recognition engine training sessions during the very first use of this software. However, the real frustrations came when the engine did not recognize individual profiles that had already been created causing a person to redo the training sessions. It also seemed as if the more training sessions were attempted, the less recognition was apparent. Wake up became leg up and Okay was heard as FDA. Perhaps this inability to remember profiles and the training sessions already completed is limited to the SpeakToText trial version.
Here are some snapshots of SpeakToText:
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