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by smileysteve 4425 days ago
The game worked for me. But the voice recognition of individual letters was abysmally slow / bad on my laptop. I guess it gives a better sense of how far back voice recognition is.
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All the voice recognition packages I've used have a dedicated "spell this" mode, usually activated by a hot word like "spell" or similar. In the dedicated mode, my recollection is that one can use the phonetic alphabet (alpha, bravo, charlie, etc) in lieu of trying to get it to recognize the names of the letters, which are usually monosyllable and thus harder to pick up.

I haven't tried the system under discussion to know if it has such a mode or not.

Out of 10 tries for "G" I became angry and closed it. Also a laptop.
Same thing happened to me, except for the letter T, it kept recognizing it as the letter P...