Category «Software Tips»

From the Desk of David Pogue: Speaking Naturally, Anew

Graham was recently looking for decent speech recognition software recently. I gave him the only thing that I had, an old version of Dragon Naturally Speaking (v.4 or v.5 I believe). ScanSoft has released version 8 of Dragon Naturally speaking. They claim they have made it 25% more accurate and in the article quoted above, …

Audio and Video Codecs

http://www.fourcc.org/codecs.php Definitions of raw and compressed pixel formats used in Windows video programming. If you’ve ever downloaded a video, you probably come across ones that you cannot play because your system needs a decoder. Windows Media Player will play AVIs, MPGs, and many other standard formats, but not every one. Check out the above site …