Thanks everyone for all the positive comments on this demonstration video. I hope it will be helpful to those who need it.
I have no idea how many Band in a Box users are having trouble operating a standard mouse and keyboard.
There are lots of people who have RSI related problems or are (partially) paralyzed due to strokes, traffic accidents etc.
I myself developed chronic repetitive strain injury in both arms and shoulders due to spending too many hours behind a computer, not taking enough breaks etc. I probably also had a predisposition to developing it. Not everybody gets it.
I am a frequent visitor of the KnowBrainer forum. If you want to know more about speech recognition, creating scripts and commands, this is the place to be. People are very helpful there.
Although I've always been fascinated by controlling a computer by voice, using Dragon NaturallySpeaking professional has become kind of obligatory for me. Without the program I wouldn't be able to work on a computer for more than 15 minutes or so.
The text you are reading now is dictated by voice.
If you're serious about speech recognition the professional version is heavily recommended. It's not cheap, however the latest Individual 14 edition costs only half of what it used to cost.
It already comes with lots of built-in commands. But once you fully master the scripting language (which is related to Visual Basic) the program is extremely powerful. To give you an example of what you could do: If you wanted you could create one very large command that would enter all chords in the chordsheet, load several vsti plug-ins and realtracks to specific channels and finally render the song to a specific folder on your computer. You could name this command something like "test".
So that would be executing more than 100 keyboard/mouse actions by just uttering a single word!
Luckily you won't have to create such a command because Band in a Box already is very responsive to speech input. It's interface is relatively open to the Select and Say feature of Dragon (not all programs are, especially DAWs).
For those interested here are some links:
http://www.nuance.com/for-business/by-product/dragon/dragon-for-the-pc/dragon-professional-individual/index.htmhttp://www.knowbrainer.com/forums/forum/index.cfmhttp://www.pcbyvoice.com/http://www.voicecomputer.com/http://www.voicecomputer.com/forum/Thanks again for taking the time to watch my video.
Rob.
