Does Aurora for Windows do speech recognition?
No, Aurora talks to you, you don’t talk to it. Is speech recognition a good solution for me? Speech recognition is a good solution for some individuals, and is constantly improving, but it is still by no means a catch-all solution. Here are some issues if you are considering purchasing a speech recognition system. Do you want to be able to write on your own some day? If you are using speech recognition to help a learning disability, you are pretty much giving up at ever having a chance at improving your writing skills. By using word prediction, you gain the opportunity to improve both your reading and writing skills through use and practise, so that one day you may be able to improve to the point of no longer needing a computer for assistance. Will correcting errors interrupt your train of thought? Can you recognize errors when they happen? The biggest problem speech recognition has yet to overcome is accuracy. In a recent Byte magazine review (January 1998) the best scoring speech rec
