[daanzu]

For what it's worth, my voice is quite abnormal, so most untrained speech recognition is terrible for me, and even performing the normal "training" for Dragon still resulted in very poor accuracy. However, apparently their training is quite limited, because once I developed my Kaldi Active Grammar [1], and did my own direct training, the results were fantastic in comparison, with orders of magnitude better accuracy.

Also, Dragon has many commands that cannot be disabled, and if your accuracy is already low, more commands available means more possible things to get wrong. Something like Dragonfly with KaldiAG could allow you to reduce the command set, and improve the practical accuracy.

So, more personalized training/software may work better.

[1] https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar

[iudqnolq]

Very interesting. I'll take a look and see if I can easily package that in a way someone non-technical could use

[daanzu]

If they are using Windows, packaging is quite easy: see the winpython distribution of KaldiAG. The more difficult part is writing the commands: it is not hard programming, but it is technical. But if they can describe what they would want, someone else may be able to write it easily. The personalized training is still pretty new and raw, and it needs a lot of setup to do the training itself. Without knowing more about what your friend found problematic, it is hard to say what could help the most.