Qpointer

Qpointer provides good command and control facilities, but is not so good for writing tasks as it makes more recognition errors. It operates differently to Naturally Speaking and Via Voice.

Minimum requirements are a 133 MHz Pentium class microprocessor, 32 MB of RAM, an industry standard sound card, and 50 MB of available hard disk capacity. The products have 30, 000-word vocabularies expandable to 60, 000 words, and sell for less than $200.

Comments:

dyslexic дислексія, невміння писати

accuracy точність; безпомилковість; чіткість зображення

to decipher розшифровувати, дешифрувати

to convert перетворювати, конвертувати

comparator компаратор, порівнювач, блок порівняння;

enrolment реєстрація

I. Match words in the text with their definitions.

1. Recognition A. Esp. tech. separate; distinct.

2. Feasible B. A person, thing, or form that is an example to

copy.

3. Discrete C. To do something in answer.

4. Accuracy D. The fact of knowing someone or something.

5. To respond E. Able to be carried out or done; possible.

6. Pattern F. The quality of being accurate; exactness or correctness.

II. Identify whether the following sentences are true or false.

Use the model:

1) Student A: I've heard that IBM ViaVoice offers good accuracy, but is not as easy to use as NaturallySpeaking. — Student B: Yes, that is quite right.

2) S. A: All voice-recognition systems are faultless. — S. B: No, that is false, because all voice-recognition systems make errors. Such noises as screaming children, barking dogs, and loud external conversations can produce false input.

1. Early voice recognition products used conversationally paced speech recognition.

2. Training to 95 percent accuracy takes only a few hours.

3. Voice recognition devices in work situations provide faster and more accurate input.

4. The sounds of a sequence of words are like a series of sound bites.

5. Trained systems regularly achieve a 95 to 99 percent word recognition

rate.

6. Voice recognition systems work the best only on Windows 2000.

III. Complete the following sentences using words and

Expressions given below.

1. Voice recognition allows you to enter data and issue commands to the computer with... words.

2. The goal has always been to enable computers to understand our...

speech.

3. Speech is the easiest and the most natural means of human....

4. Training voice recognition systems involves... a variety of words and phrases in a training session.

5. The speech patterns are stored on the...

spoken hard drive repeating continuous communication