From reading the threads it appears that some are doing away with their
Cyberon voice tag software in favor of a Microsoft offering. Can someone
please tell me about the advantages of the MS product over Cyberon's? It is
my understanding that the MS product also allows Bluetooth headset dialing,
which is very important. It also appears that you do not have to create
voice tags for the MS product. It seems like that would substantially
reduce its accuracy. Is that true? Any of your thoughts would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks.


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At 23 Oct 2006 20:08:07 +0000 David Jensen wrote:
> From reading the threads it appears that some are doing away with their
> Cyberon voice tag software in favor of a Microsoft offering. Can
someone
> please tell me about the advantages of the MS product over Cyberon's?
It is
> my understanding that the MS product also allows Bluetooth headset
dialing,
> which is very important. It also appears that you do not have to
create
> voice tags for the MS product. It seems like that would substantially
> reduce its accuracy. Is that true?

It's kind of like the letter recognition software- you adapt to it. For
example, I tend to speak some contact's names phonetically rather than
how they're actually pronounced in "real life" so Voice Command
"understands me." The biggest advantage, of course, is that VC is not
speaker dependent, so my wife can voice dial on my phone as easily as I
do without creating a separate set of tags for her.



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"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
news:453d3c36$0$19643$88260bb3@free.teranews.com.. .
> At 23 Oct 2006 20:08:07 +0000 David Jensen wrote:
>> From reading the threads it appears that some are doing away with their
>> Cyberon voice tag software in favor of a Microsoft offering. Can
> someone
>> please tell me about the advantages of the MS product over Cyberon's?
> It is
>> my understanding that the MS product also allows Bluetooth headset
> dialing,
>> which is very important. It also appears that you do not have to
> create
>> voice tags for the MS product. It seems like that would substantially
>> reduce its accuracy. Is that true?
>
> It's kind of like the letter recognition software- you adapt to it. For
> example, I tend to speak some contact's names phonetically rather than
> how they're actually pronounced in "real life" so Voice Command
> "understands me." The biggest advantage, of course, is that VC is not
> speaker dependent, so my wife can voice dial on my phone as easily as I
> do without creating a separate set of tags for her.
>
>
>
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I will be the only one using the phone. I guess that would tend to mitigate
the advantages of the MS voice dial. It's true that it is a pain to set up
all the tags initially, but I find the accuracy to be phenominal, which
really should be expected since it is matching your voice to a carbon copy
of itself. Now I wonder when voice recognition will be available for
textual data entry. That would beat any keyboard out there.

David

At 24 Oct 2006 01:22:57 +0000 David Jensen wrote:

> I will be the only one using the phone. I guess that would tend to
mitigate
> the advantages of the MS voice dial.

Perhaps, perhaps not. When I used the voice tag feature of my old
Symbian phone (a Nokia 3650) I found that speaking into my headset didn't
match the tag I created with the handset microphone. When I added a BT
headset later, it didn't match the tags I created with the wired one, as
if I was three different people!

Of course this wasn't the same voice tag software as your phone uses, but
it is something to test.

>It's true that it is a pain to set up
> all the tags initially, but I find the accuracy to be phenominal, which
> really should be expected since it is matching your voice to a carbon
copy
> of itself. Now I wonder when voice recognition will be available for
> textual data entry. That would beat any keyboard out there.

True, but it's very memory intensive. Just to work with the 300 or so
contacts on my phone, Voice Command uses about 3MB of memory all of the
time.


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