Voice recognition software

Does anybody use voice software to input names into their genealogy
programs? Does Legacy, PAF, TMG etc work with these voice programs? I just
found a book of a rather large group of family members > 200 pages and the
data isnt available to the same degree in ged downloads from the sites I ve
located so I thought the voice program would save alot of typing. Any
thoughts are welcome.

Hugh Watkins...

I experimented with it

but it works best with longer latin based words
quicker to type or ocr for msot of us
beware of older publkished genealogies

they may contain errors or assumptions - or down right fakes by charlatans

Hugh W

Doug

singhals...

I don't recommend it...unless of courze your voice is _absolutely_
mid-west US and you've a sound-proof room to work in.

We tried it. Sure wish we'd opened the box the day we brought it home,
but by the time we decided it wasn't trainable, it was past the 30-day
refund period.

Recommend instead that you print out the data and do OCR or that you
save the data as HTNL; in either case you can copy'n'paste away. *THAT*
works.

Robert Heiling...

When you say "book", it sounds as though it would be printed in a
machine-readable font as opposed to handwriting. That would make OCR (Optical
Character Recognition) practical. Scan the pages and run them through OCR
software. That wouldn't enter anything into a genealogy program, but it would
make everything available in text files for copy & paste.