medical vocabulary

I've found that the MS SRP appears superb for general text, as compared with VV10 and DNS. Does anyone know if there is a medical vocabulary available for the MS version as an add-on?

Rich

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Richard Luft wrote: I've

Richard Luft wrote:

I've found that the MS SRP appears superb for general text, as compared with VV10 and DNS. Does anyone know if there is a medical vocabulary available for the MS version as an add-on?

Apparently several developers are working to provide add-ons to Windows® Speech Recognition in Vista. Some of these add-ons are supposed to be medical vocabularies. Other people are supposedly working on providing macro creation interfaces for text and scripting macros.

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RSS Feeds Can Keep You Up-To-Date

As Martin suggested, third-party developers are working on
creating vocabularies and our company is close to releasing a KnowBrainer
Command Browser that supports the Vista speech engine and includes the usual
assortment of KnowBrainer commands. The current version of KnowBrainer only
supports the DNS speech engine but if you want to keep up with technology you
might want to keep an eye on the KnowBrainer Vista
Speech Forum
which is being moderated by Rob Chambers from the Windows Vista
Speech Recognition Development Division. If you don't have time to monitor
the forum regularly, you can optionally subscribe to an RSS feed which will
keep you up-to-date. RSS feeds are very cool and when you don't have time for
regular visits and it's an excellent way to keep up with news and technology.
When it comes to speech recognition activity, there's a lot happening on the KnowBrainer
Speech Recognition Forums

Lunis Orcutt - Developer of KnowBrainer &

Host
of the Http://www.KnowBrainer.com Speech Recognition Forum

Nice to see that everyone

Nice to see that everyone wants to update Vista, but how about something that works in XP? Will the upgrades function there?
Richard

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I don't believe the SR built

I don't believe the SR built into Vista is available for XP. There used to be Microsoft SR for XP and older OS versions. Not sure what happened to that. Probably a dead horse now with Vista out. Rob Chambers happens around here once in a while, maybe he can enlighten us.

It's pretty much a one way solution for XP and that's Dragon. Everyone else folded or stopped development.

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We're not planning on

We're not planning on updating the recognizer on XP with the recognizer from Vista. We get the request quite often, but it's not something I think will happen.

The best you can get right now for SR on XP is to install it from Office 2003 or use it directly out of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP2. The engines in those two products are better than what you get with Office XP, or with the SAPI 5.1 SDK. But, they are very far behind the core recognizer technology and end user experiences available in Windows Vista.

Back porting the engine to XP wouldn't be terribly difficult, but the user experience portions would be. It takes advantage of a great deal of Vista only capabilities.

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Rob Chambers [MSFT]
http://blogs.msdn.com/robch/default.aspx
Windows Speech Recognition - We're Listening...

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KnowBrainer Will Support the Windows XP Speech Engine

The Windows XP speech engine is so limited that it isn't even
available until you click a menu item and are prompted to install it from
your Office XP/2003 or Windows CD. Don't hold your breath waiting for Windows
XP speech engine developments because the focus is going to be almost
entirely on the vastly superior Vista speech engine which was written from
the ground up and only available in Windows Vista.

 

Having said all that, we expect the KnowBrainer Vista Command
Browser will also support the Windows XP speech engine but not because we
have big plans for it. It was just easy to port KnowBrainer over to Windows
XP while coding the Vista version.

 

Lunis Orcutt - Developer of KnowBrainer  &

Host
of the Http://www.KnowBrainer.com Speech Recognition Forum

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Hi Rich, Martin and Lunis

Hi Rich,

Martin and Lunis have guided you well. There are tools for doing this, and companies are actively using those tools. I can't announce anything else at this time.

When something is ready to be announced, I'll definitely post it on the speech team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/speech/, and probably also on my blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/robch/. I'm sure it'll show up here, on KnowBrainer Forums, and a few other places shortly after that.

--
Rob Chambers [MSFT]
http://blogs.msdn.com/robch/default.aspx
Windows Speech Recognition - We're Listening...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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