I wrote:
>> A Microsoft employee referred me to a program (Vocola) written by
>> Rick Mohr. It allows continuous voice command recognition he
>> modestly calls "command sequences". I have tested it in Windows 7
>> and apparently it works.
>
> Umm, it sucks compared to predefined phrases in Windows XP with
> Naturally Speaking pro. Back to the drawing board.
Found it, I did. There is a program (currently freeware) called
"Dragonfly" written by Christo Butcher. It works with any version of
Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) and Windows XP. You can use it with
Vista's Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) without DNS if you can stand
WSR's lag when multitasking. Dragonfly does not include a user
interface, it is mainly intended for Python programmers who want to
allow speech control of applications. But it should be easy enough to
use, with some technical help, if you have any programming experience.
Functionally, using DNS, Dragonfly is marvelous for speech activated
scripting in Windows. The main advantage over DNS Advanced Scripting
(besides being able to use it with the less expensive versions) is
that it enables continuous command recognition. Individual commands
spoken in sequence no longer require a pause between each utterance.
Also, the recognition of commands is as good as it is for DNS Advanced
Scripting scripts, and commands are executed immediately without lag.
If you have programming experience, an interest in speech recognition,
and would like to automate tasks in Windows, Dragonfly is a good place
to start. Getting a stupid computer to understand/recognize a set of
commands is easy compared to a large vocabulary human language
dictation.
http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly/
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