Voice command

[Michael Young]

Paul,

The question "Does Rev have any kind of voice command where I could  
speak into mic and the spoken words will print in a text box?" sounds  
like you are asking RR to do voice recognition. IMHO, it is unrealistic  
to expect RR to have voice recognition capability. I mean as best as I  
can tell even IBM gave up on VR on the desktop.

Dragon Pro used to be cross platform, but it is not currently.
http://www.dragonsys.com/
http://knowledgebase.scansoft.com/view.asp?tnID=4959&sQuery=macintosh

IBM ViaVoice is still available on Macintosh in addition to Windows,  
but when I have tried to move voice files between Macintosh and Windows  
it has not worked. So VV is not really cross platform. Plus VV does not  
appear to be actively developed since IBM dumped VV off to Scansoft  
that long ago bought Dragon Systems.
http://www.dragonsys.com/viavoice/

iListen is a Macintosh only product
http://www.macspeech.com/
, by a Mac only company.
http://www.macspeech.com/company/

However I have grave doubts about the long term viability of MacSpeech  
and iListen, since they have been hinting/promising/etc. for several  
years that they will develop medical, legal and etc. vocabularies  
(needed to improve VR out of the box) and it has not happened.
http://macspeech.crmhelp.net/index.php? 
_a=knowledgebase&_j=rate&_i=56&type=yes
http://macspeech.crmhelp.net/index.php? 
_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=56

OTOH, MacSpeech does keep developing add-on products for more main  
stream applications so there still may be hope. :-)
http://macspeech.crmhelp.net/index.php? 
_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=82&nav=+%26gt%3B+%3Ca+href%3D%27i 
ndex.php%3F_a%3Dknowledgebase%26_j%3Dsubcat%26_i%3D1%27%3EPre%2FPost+Sal 
es+Questions%3C%2Fa%3E
http://www.macspeech.com/store/default.php? 
cPath=3&osCsid_private=d47e7d12c82ca38df389633404b73248

HTH,

Michael

On Jul 6, 2005, at 6:53 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> Dragon PRO is very good and crossplatform to boot.
>
> tom
>
> On Jul 6, 2005, at 1:27 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>> Not sure how this would be handled in Rev, but OS X has these
>> capabilities in some form or another.
>>
>> I'm experimenting with a new program called iListen that claims to
>> take dictation and voice commands for OS X.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2005, at 8:40 PM, Paul Salyers wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does Rev have any kind of voice command where I could speak into a
>>> mic and the spoken words will print in a text box?
>>>
>>> Also interested in having where the speakers/head pones will play
>>> what is to be read by the user from a varabels .
>>>
>>> any help here?
>>>
>>>
>>> Paul Salyers
>>> PS1 - Senior Rep.
>>> PS1 at softseven.org
>>> Http://ps1.SoftSeven.org