Last Modified: 11/03/05

SR Related Web Resources

The following are among the best links on the Internet which are speech recognition oriented. These are people willing to share their expertise with the speech recognition community.

Larry - www.pcspeak.com - Larry Allen's site is probably the most complete site for "how-to" articles and tips, tricks, hints of NaturallySpeaking, especially intermediate and advanced topics. Scripting for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8, Larry has updated his outstanding scripting book with some new and updated material to guide you thru the VBA command scripting facility. You won't find this info in the Dragon Help files!

Rose - www.brightok.net/~edrose/page7.html - Many, many articles and tips and tricks for making speech recognition work since the earliest Dragon products with a sometimes multimedia presentation.

Marty - http://www.emicrophones.com - Microphone guru. Has .mp3 files of what you should strive to sound like, a very thorough article "Key Steps to High Speech Recognition Accuracy" and more.

Chad - http://www.inficad.com/~chadt/dragon/index.html - Perhaps the largest publicly available selection of NaturallySpeaking macros for many applications.

Susan - http://www.out-loud.com - An interesting and diverse site by Susan Fulton. In addition to information about Dragon related products, she has the most info about SR outside of the Dragon world (IBM ViaVoice, Mac, others).

Joel - http://www.synapseadaptive.com/joel/default.htm - A former Dragon NaturallySpeaking lead software engineer with unique knowledge and insight. Creator of NatLink, a Python based macro language add-on. Also creator of Getwords & Putwords, programs for transferring vocabulary words.

Kim - http://www.scriven.com/RSI/RSIdata/KimsMacros/Kims_Macros.html - Another large collection of excellent macros complete with HTML documentation.

Dan - http://www.sayican.com - A visually attractive site, with SR tips, a section on Healthy Computing, a Buyer's Guide, as well as free online access to his book The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Guide

Speech Recognition Ware - http://www.transcriptionaid.net - See their Transcription Aid product for correction of dictated documents by non-experienced NaturallySpeaking personnel, as well as improvement of the Dragon user Speech profile at the same time. The unique application also supports transcription of sound files from any digital recorder, Pocket PC PDA and Windows powered Smartphone, which is a worldwide first feature.

KnowBrainer - http://www.knowbrainer.com - The original "KnowBrainer" commercial package of pre-built macros, as well as specialty vocabularies. Also, now sponsors the KnowBrainer forum (http://forum.KnowBrainer.com), a free-wheeling well-designed technical support forum with knowledge and insights you won't get anywhere else.

Scott - http://applied-recognition.com - His professional looking site features the "Quick" family of products for control of otherwise difficult-to-voice window management tasks. Scott has also contributed much to the speech recognition community with his Speech Recognition Wiki.

Skip - http://speechcomputing.com - Skip has morphed his previously existing e-mail listservs into a full-blown online forum. Some mailing lists are available here now also.

There are several e-mail based discussion lists:

All of the immediately following groups are based at Yahoo - groups.yahoo.com

natpro-wp8 - Originally oriented towards WordPerfect macros, now includes all aspects of Natpro macro creation and usage. You can sign up for this list at the bottom of this page on Rose's site.
VoiceCoder - Computer programming by voice
MSVoxCoders - Programming by voice with Microsoft products
medspeech - Medical vocabulary oriented SR
ms-speech - Microsoft speech recognition product

All of the above lists are also accessible via Web based interface. Any of the above lists can be joined with a blank message to:

xxxx-subscribe@yahoogroups.com where xxx is the list name above.

Previous Yahoo groups VoiceGroup, VoiceComp, DragonNaturallySpeaking, ViaVoice have been discontinued, although their archives are still available on Yahoo. They have been superseded by the list owner's new SpeechComputing site mentioned above.

Another long-standing e-mail discussion list is at: voiceusers http://voicerecognition.com/voice-users/