Talking to your typewriter.Talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to your typewriter typewriter, instrument for producing by manual operation characters similar to those of printing. Corresponding to each key on the instrument's keyboard is a steel type. Getting a computer to convert what you're saying into words displayed on a screen poses particular problems. such a speech-recognition system must contend with accents, jargon and words that sound the same but are spelled differently. Researchers at Dragon Systems Dragon Systems, Inc., was the company that created DragonDictate and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It was founded in 1982 by Drs. James and Janet Baker and bought by Lernout & Hauspie in 2000. , Inc., in Newton, Mass., have now developed a dictation system allowing a user with limited typing skills to work comfortably with any word-processing software. The system, known as Drago nDictate, handles 30,000 words, adjusting the vocabulary available according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. which words a user says not frequently. Furthermore, the system "learns" as it operates, automatically adapting to a user's accent or language quirks. The user, inserting a brief pause after each word, sees the word on the screen almost immediately. The system's high performance -- considerably better than that of any other general-purpose, large-vocabulary speech-recognition system presently available -- results from the combination of several ideas from speech-recognition research, particularly the use of probability theory probability theory Branch of mathematics that deals with analysis of random events. Probability is the numerical assessment of likelihood on a scale from 0 (impossibility) to 1 (absolute certainty). . Moreover, the computer juggles information about the sound, grammatical context and meaning of words to come up with its best possible guess as to a speaker's meaning. These capabilities are packed into a computer program and a single circuit board that fits in a personal computer with a 386 microprocessor. |
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