One final thought, when your system starts not comprehending what you're saying just restart the computer. Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [PBS] Born? > Hi Carol, > > I'm very impressed with your use of "voice recognition" software in > writing > your e-mail message to this PBS site. You, clearly, are far more > successful > with using it than I have been. I suspect that most readers on this PBS > site > have never used "voice recognition" software to write a text message and > have little or no idea of the effort required to do so. You're to be > congratulated. Your e-mail is quite readable. > > Although I do not have a physical handicap that would require me to use > "voice recognition" software, I have tried using it to convert audio > recordings > of family history interviews to text so that I can edit them and print > them in > Microsoft WORD. However, I have not been sufficiently successful in > doing > so and keep hoping to find "newer" software that will permit me to do > that. > And, hopefully, with a minimum of editting. I probably have over 200 > hours of > such recordings that I would like to convert to text. > > I'm curious to know what "voice recognition" software you are using and > whether in writing your e-mail you had to "spell-out", letter-by-letter, > many > words not found in the software's dictionary, like Chmielewski, Breman, > Stanislas, Faustyn, etc.? > > I understand your frustration in trying to locate the name of the > town/village from which your grandmother came. I had the same problem > years ago when I > first began my family search. However, my breakthrough came through > cousins > in a small town in NE PA, through whom I met and interviewed an elderly > lady, only distantly related to our family through an early second > marriage. >>From her I learned the name of her mother's ancestral village in Poland. > Because most of the immigrants in that NE PA town appeared to come from > that same > area of Poland, I assumed my family also came from that area and had > genealogists in Poland search the B-M-D records in the Polish archives > for that > village and others nearby. As a result, I "hit paydirt", as they say, > and found my > family in those records. > > Because of that "stroke of luck", I have since found family in Poland and > Ukraine that I never knew I had and have traveled there five times since > 2003 > to spend time with them and to further my family history search. > Perhaps, you > too, will have similar luck. > > I look forward to hearing from you again. > > Andy > Pittsburgh, PA > > > > > **************Stay up-to-date on the latest news - from fashion trends to > celebrity break-ups and everything in between. > (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000024) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >