What is the quality of the virtual receptionist that "reads" the text-to-speech of the outgoing announcement? (Better than a Stephen Hawking voice?:-)
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I'd say something a bit less than Siri. Ok for basic vocabulary, but probably not usable if you want to use your business name in the greeting. We just recorded a greeting professionally and uploaded that as an audio file.
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@Stephen, the handwriting recognition is pretty good, but can fail. Try writing gmail. :)
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yes loud and clear (altho computer voice does mangle the senders name at times!!!)
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If the microphone is close enough to the speaker, it doesn't matter whose voice it is. The speech recognition programs on newer versions of windows is at least as good as Dragon, in my opinion.
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I don't know but send a message to Garmin: they were very helpful to me. The "screen" is in color and very easy to read......The "voice" is clear most of the time.. I have noticed a few bad enunciations.
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No where near as robust as Siri. Windows 8 has speech recognition, but for me it's more frustration than useful.
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Voice will work. Data will work as EDGE. That means sloooooooooow, really slow.
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And I though that I was the only person who wanted to scan B&W; negatives. I will be following this thread with interest. If anyone knows of a site that discusses this subject in depth, using simple declarative sentences, please post a link. I am NOT interested in marketing blather/hype about "productivity", "workflow" or the ever popular "solutions".
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Maybe Dennis is a senior, or maybe he is just helping a senior with the selection. I am trying to find something for my parents, who are 80-ish. They had a computer a while back for word processing, but have never gone online. I know they would love it if they had a very user-friendly machine.Dennis, did you find something good? I'd love to know.
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I love the device, but I haven't used the Dragon yet. The sound quality is amazing, so if you already use Dragon, the voice quality will be more than adequate to decipher it.
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Your question is pretty vague, but its fine when it comes to speech recognition. I've used it regularly for both Rosetta Stone and for Skype chats.
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the link below is a comparison of the GoBible versions, the printed text is only available on the Voyager models,that was important to me also and I bought my Voyager here from Amazon, on it the text advances along with the spoken text---the positive reviews certainly show that the Original model is a very good model, but that feature of having the printed text show while hearing the spoken text is what I was looking for and the Voyager has proven to be everything I was hoping for and more, hope this helps, (link below)http://gobible.com/product-comparison
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Probably, but suggest emailing Voiceover Essentials for definitive answer--Best,BB
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Yes, you can download some celebrity voices, John Cleese is the one that comes to mind.The unit has been very helpful to me. Hope that helps your decision.
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My installation tells me "A serious error occured while trying to initialize the NaturallySpeaking speech engine. Please try reinstalling to correct this problem." Of course, reinstalling does not help and I can't get anyone at Nuance to respond (other than Lanz, the automated email response generator, that is). Any ideas?
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They offer a speech text service you can purchase after the first free year or something like that. I did not use their service because I use Motospeak for free with my Motorola phone. I only had this device a month before the metal speaker came out and was lost forever making it useless. I replaced with a Samsung Bluetooth.
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John, please read my original review of this device. I found this device VERY disappointing. I suggest you check out the Logitech series, you will like it much better!