Philips FreeSpeech 2000 + Headset

I bought Philips Freespeech 2000 for £10. I got a headset with it. The software itself proved a complete waste of money for me but at least I had the headset. This is third speech recognition programme I have bought and it performed no better and no worse than the others. After I set it up and taught it to recognise my voice, I found that there were so many text errors to correct that it was much quicker to revert to the keyboard and type my text in. There must be something in some voices, or accents, that causes speech recognition software to be less accurate for some people. I passed the disc on to a friend who was very pleased with it and found it ...  Read the complete review

Bought Freespeech 98 for the bargain price of £5.00 GBP Spent another £10.00 on a good microphone (You need a decent headset style Microphone for any such prog.) Training: Time intensive, but it really works. Constantly improves the recognition and a few spare minutes spent on training more than pays off. End usage: Within Microsoft Word. You need to also speak the 'formatting commands', so a sentence that reads 'Boy George, the famous singer, and now DJ.' Would have to voiced as: 'new paragraph boy george comma the famous singer comma and now dj fullstop' For this reason alone I would never find this product to be of benefit. But it could have it ...  Read the complete review