How to Make Your Computer Type What You Say Colorado

Steps

1. Make sure you have a working and installed microphone (headsets work the best).
2. Go to http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/ and select the version of the software that is most suitable for your purpose.
3. Buy and install the software.
4. Follow the instructions provided with the software.
5. Launch the program and start out with reading one of the articles/stories. You should do one the these everyday for several weeks to train the computer to recognize your voice. If it has problems detecting some of your words then you can easily train the problem words.

Tips

• Microsoft Windows Vista has built in voice recognition which can be accessed through the Control Panel.
• It takes a while to train the software to recognize your voice properly.
• Microsoft Word (the 2000 edition for students/teachers) has the software built in
• You may need to download and install the speech recognition engine for Windows XP
• If you want text-to-speech as well, you'll need to download the text-to-speech engine as well on Windows XP
• Before using the program, train it several times to ensure accuracy
• When dictating, always try not to dictate word for word, it's less accurate this way.
• The Opera internet browser has this built in.

Warnings

• No voice recognition works flawlessly.

Things You'll Need

• a computer
• a microphone
• a keyboard

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