[Sca-cooks] [OT] OCR programs for the Mac?

[James Prescott]

Stefan,

Mac OS 'Mavericks' has a *free* dictation feature from Apple.  Go to 
Preferences / Dictation & Speech / Dictation.  Turn Dictation 'On'. 
Check "Use Enhanced Dictation" and wait for it to download and install 
the offline voice recognition package.  It is a slightly less capable 
version of Dragon.

Put cursor in a text document, enable dictation, and start speaking.

I just did the download, and tested it by reading this email.  Not super 
great.  My voice is clearly non-standard.  Later: worked better when I 
downloaded a different English language package for it that matches my 
accent better.

There's an earlier version of the same thing in the Mountain Lion OS.


Thorvald










On 2014-04-15, 23:20, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2014, at 2:01 PM, guillanedv<guillanedv at aol.com>  wrote:
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>> Have you thought about reading the articles into a voice recognition program? Nuance has Dragon Dictate for Mac. I use the windows version.
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>> Guillane
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> An interesting idea, but the voice recognition program might be more expensive than the OCR. I'd expect the OCR to be much simpler computationally.
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> And as bad as it might normally interpret me, right now I'm suffering from allergies and am congested and coughing, so it would probably be much worse now.
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> I guess reading various text articles into the system might help you get over your stage fright. :-)  I find it hard to believe folks can use a speech recognition system in the open cubicle arrangements that seem to be so common these days.
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> Thanks though,
>     Stefan
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