Voice Recognition

We visited Voice Perfect and found that the whole world of voice recognition is finally at an acceptable level of speed and accuracy with Dragon Naturally Speaking (the product I was playing with on the show). The longer you spend training the software, the more accurate it is, but you only need to take a 5 minute interview to get started. Its important to speak normally and not affect your voice to be any slower or drawn out. Once you've spent about 20 minutes on it, you'll be up to speed.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional V5.0 - can come with vocabularies for specialist speech like Legal, Medical and Plastic Surgeons.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred V5.0

Additional accessories:

Headsets ( USB / Telephony headsets / Wireless )
Digital Recorders ( Sony ICD-MS1 )
Training courses
Visit http://www.voiceperfect.com.au for more info

Other products mentioned in the story:

Speechworks - talk to your car; do your banking via phone - http://www.speechworks.com

Michael Dunbar from Verify Me demonstrated how your voice can be used as a password over the phone to gain access to bank accounts, email readers, etc. http://www.verifyme.com.au

At VeCommerce, we discovered some amazing consumer-related voice recognition where entire call centres are being replaced by computers, so that many calls can be taken at once. http://www.vecommerce.com.au

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