talk to text?

[techno nerd]

lets say i open docs to go, and i launch some miracle program, it lets me speak into the microphone and it will translate it to words

am i dreaming?is there such a thing?

[dragonsgames]

Nope, there isn't. I doubt if they even have that for PCs... :o

[Dekaritae]

For PC, you have Dragon NaturallySpeaking and IBM ViaVoice, which both do voice-to-text dictation. For PalmOS you are limited to voice memo recording, or very simple voice recognition (think voice dialing on a mobile).

http://www.sharewareriver.com/product.php?id=15607

[braj]

I used ViaVoice in OS 9 on a 300 MHz G3. That's not that far from the specs of my TX :D I'm sure it's just a matter of time and it actually makes more sense on a PDA than a desktop if you think about it. The thing about voice recognition is you really need to spend time and train it, and you still need to proofread. But if you get it trained, it can really play the part of your secratary from the old days and you can be pretty fluid mentally.

[Nitron]

300MHz on a desktop CPU is much different than 300MHz on the CPU in your TX.
Yes, it's technically possible to do what you're asking, but it would be rather difficult (not to mention CPU/RAM-intensive = battery-intensive) to do on a PDA. I even had a hard time finding text2speech for my PocketPC, but that's also technically possible.

[braj]

I'm just saying that it isn't that far away, and probably more useful for the average PDA user than desktop user. It will likely be a 'killer app'.

[snark]

Could we have recording on the Palm, then the recorded voice would be sent to a server that will do the conversion and send the results back to the Palm.

[_Em]

Funny thing... PocketPC has had this feature for years.

[PinCushionQueen]

Speak of the devil.... An app just released today called SayIt

http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=software.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&catid=0&area=software.newupdated&searchtitle=Search%20Results&searchterm=&step=1&orderby=modificationdate&direction=asc&userid=0&prodid=122434

I don't have a microphone for my TX (yet... ) so I can't try this app out but it looks very interesting
:)

Ooops... Looks like this app is going in the other direction - It reads text to you, not change your speech into text.

[CliePet]

People are mixing up different technology.
There are three different things that require significantly different CPU processing.
#1) Text-To-Speech - (like SayIt) - this is the easiest to do since you are converting text to synthetic audio. Available for Palm and PocketPC. Relatively fast, the main differences are in how good the audio sounds. PC versions sound much better because they use large pre-recorded databases (up to 1GB per voice)

#2) Voice Recognition for commands - this is the easiest form of voice recognition. The dictionary of voice commands is limited and pre-defined, and usually you can only speak one word or phrase at a time. The voice recognition tries to find the best match from the known list.

#3) Voice Recognition for dictation (what the original poster was asking for) - this is the hardest to do. It requires more voice processing and lookup in a larger dictionary. You can talk almost continuously, and say almost anything. The software has to break it into words and sentences.
Technology has been improving, but still doesn't do a great job (IMHO)even on a fast PC with a large database. Not something that makes sense on a PDA.

As mentioned, using your PDA to voice record and plug it into a PC for dictation voice to text is the most viable solution.

[05Edge]

Could we have recording on the Palm, then the recorded voice would be sent to a server that will do the conversion and send the results back to the Palm.


Do some searching on the net, I found that this is available when I was looking for the same thing the original poster is looking for... I didn't find any solutions other than sending it to a PC to do the conversion. HTH

[Telyx]

For PC, you have Dragon NaturallySpeaking and IBM ViaVoice, which both do voice-to-text dictation. For PalmOS you are limited to voice memo recording, or very simple voice recognition (think voice dialing on a mobile).

http://www.sharewareriver.com/product.php?id=15607
You should have heard my wife trying to "train" Dragon NaturallySpeaking on our PC. She's dyslexic and has a speech impediment, so she rarely mispronounces a word the same way twice. After fifteen minutes of reading the same paragraph over and over, she had the giggles too bad to continue, and never tried again.

[snark]

Do some searching on the net, I found that this is available when I was looking for the same thing the original poster is looking for... I didn't find any solutions other than sending it to a PC to do the conversion.AFAIK no program running on the Palm supports directly sending the recorded memo to a "voice recognition server" and getting immediately (or after processing) the results back. Or does it exist?

[techno nerd]

here is freeware for text to talk.

http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/moose.shtml

[_Em]

...and the Moose works just fine on the TX; I've been using it for months. Sounds an awful lot like Macintalk as released for the Mac Plus :)

[snark]

SpinVox (http://www.spinvox.com/) converts voicemail to text. But it's done on a server, not on the device. And it's for mobiles, but a step in the right direction! ;)

[enderenya]

What's the best text-to-speech program for the TH55? The only one I know that has worked on it is PSpeak/SpeakMemo which was freeware on the Mapopolis site (not available there anymore)

[goonie]

My Dad, quite the technophobe, uses Dragon Naturally. He is a poor typist and needs to dictate lots of (legal) text for entry into Microsoft Word. He has indicated to me that there was quite a learning curve for him as far as pronouncing things and it still gets about 10% of the text totally wrong, no matter how diligent he is in dictating, and he has to go back manually and type the corrections. For him, that' s still a benefit, but for folks with any reasonable level of typing ability, it's probably more of a pain in the *** than it's worth.

[jreagles16]

Is there a way to talk towards your plam and it puts your words in text?
Also does anyone know where the you can get a text talk that will read your text that you typed out loud to you for your 700p?

[snark]

Also does anyone know where the you can get a text talk that will read your text that you typed out loud to you? Read the rest of this thread! :rolleyes:

[jreagles16]

I was tired sorry for the stupid question.