Dragon Naturally Speaking and Visual Basic .Net

[projecttoday]

You can use Dragon Naturally Speaking with Microsoft Access databases and I was wondering if you can do the same with Visual Basic .Net. I think Access has this as a feature, that it interacts with Dragon somehow, not just accepting input. Correct me if I am wrong. I'd like to know if Visual Basic .Net supports this too. I have been searching on the net and haven't found anything.

[weirddemon]

You can use Dragon Naturally Speaking with Microsoft Access databases and I was wondering if you can do the same with Visual Basic .Net. I think Access has this as a feature, that it interacts with Dragon somehow, not just accepting input. Correct me if I am wrong. I'd like to know if Visual Basic .Net supports this too. I have been searching on the net and haven't found anything.

I'm confused, what exactly are you trying to do? The whole Access thing is kind of throwing me off.

But, if you're just trying to use Dragon's speech technology in your app, then you should be able to. I Googled it real quick and found a user manual for their API. The documentation states that it supports VB 6, 7 and 8. 8 being VS 2005. But, that documentation might be outdated. I imagine if it supports an old version of .NET, it can support the newest.

But, I can't imagine it will be an easy or trivial thing.

[projecttoday]

Visual Basic 7.1 and 8?

[weirddemon]

Visual Basic 7.1 and 8?

Read my entire reply.

[projecttoday]

I not only read your entire post, I saw it in the document. And I still have never heard of VB 7 or VB 8. If that means VB. Net 2003 and VB.Net 2005, why didn't they just say so?

[formlesstree4]

I not only read your entire post, I saw it in the document. And I still have never heard of VB 7 or VB 8. If that means VB. Net 2003 and VB.Net 2005, why didn't they just say so?

Because technically they're the same thing.

[projecttoday]

Apparently not. Go to http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answe...IxIn19fX19fX0. and have a look at the first result. It looks like they support VB 6 but not VB.Net.

[formlesstree4]

Then...why did I find this?

EDIT: Also, the one you linked to says Version 7; the one I have says version 9.

[weirddemon]

Apparently not.

Apparently yes.

I'll see your Nuance article and raise you a Wikipedia one.

[weirddemon]

Apparently not. Go to http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/list//p/17/kw/%22C#s=eyJjIjoxNSwic2YiOnsiMTc2Ijp7ImZpbHRlcnMiOnsiYyI6eyJmaWx0ZXJzIjp7ImRhdGEiOnsiMCI6W119LCJyblNlY XJjaFR5cGUiOiJtZW51ZmlsdGVyIn19LCJrZXl3b3JkIjp7ImZpbHRlcnMiOnsiZGF0YSI6IlZpc3VhbCBCYXNpYyIsInJuU2Vhc mNoVHlwZSI6ImtleXdvcmQifX0sIm5vX3RydW5jYXRlIjowLCJwIjp7ImZpbHRlcnMiOnsiZGF0YSI6eyIwIjpbIjE3Il0sInJlY 29uc3RydWN0RGF0YSI6W3siaGllckxpc3QiOiIxNyIsImxhYmVsIjoiRHJhZ29uIE5hdHVyYWxseVNwZWFraW5nIiwibGV2ZWwiO jF9XX0sInJuU2VhcmNoVHlwZSI6Im1lbnVmaWx0ZXIifX0sInBhZ2UiOjEsInNlYXJjaFR5cGUiOnsiZmlsdGVycyI6eyJkYXRhI jo1LCJyblNlYXJjaFR5cGUiOiJzZWFyY2hUeXBlIn19LCJzb3J0X2FyZ3MiOnsiZmlsdGVycyI6eyJkYXRhIjp7ImNvbF9pZCI6I i0xIiwic29ydF9kaXJlY3Rpb24iOiIxIn19fX19fX0. and have a look at the first result. It looks like they support VB 6 but not VB.Net.

Also, I forgot to mention that you're correct. VB6 and VB.NET are not the same thing. But that's not what you or formless were talking about. You asked why they said VB 7.1 and VB 8 instead of VB.NET. Formless was right, because VB 7.1 = VB.NET 2003 and VB 8 = VB.NET 2005.

And, VB.NET can refer to any version, while listing the versions told us which framework was supported.

[projecttoday]

First time I've ever heard it referred to that way.

[weirddemon]

First time I've ever heard it referred to that way.

Yeah. I also never had a blueberry pie before the first time I had one

On the serious side though, It still looks like you'll be able to use their API if you can find it. I can't seem to find any information for it beyond .NET 2005.

You might want to look more on their site, or contact them directly about it.

[moti barski]

as I understand there are 3 main algorithms for speech reco all time based :

1 fonetic : the program checks every 40 miliseconds or less was there quite or noise and then uses probability to convert thet data to word and sentenses (much based on training the program)

2 sentence based (requires much more training) instead of considering fonetics the program considers how many quite volume level per say 3 seconds and uses probability for converting that to words.

3 a combo of the above 1 2

so if you were to get a volume meter that gets the volume level every less than 40 miliseconds then ...

the problem with win 7 speech reco (sapi) is correcting it, I was unable to access certain letters.