The IT World of Gary

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SOME people I know talk to themselves; some even talk to their dogs!

But what about talking to your Personal Computer? Come on, you can't be serious?

Actually, this year there has been significant progress in what is known as continuous speech recognition (CSR) by computers, and two commercial software packages were launched within the last few months which convert users' speech into text. Importantly , with these products - ViaVoice from IBM and Dragon Systems' NaturallySpeaking - you don't have to speak much slower than normal nor do you have to separate your words artificially. Before now software used discrete voice recognition, where you hadto l eave a gap …