I have 8 inch Android 2.2 Tablets <a href="mailto:davidchristensen42@gmail.com">davidchristensen42@gmail.com</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:36 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-request@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-request@kwlug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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1. Re: Palm replacement? Android pad? (Kyle Spaans)<br>
2. Re: Palm replacement? Android pad? (Insurance Squared Inc.)<br>
3. Re: Speech to text (Paul Nijjar)<br>
4. Re: Speech to text (Paul Nijjar)<br>
5. Re: Palm replacement? Android pad? (<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>)<br>
6. Re: Palm replacement? Android pad? (Khalid Baheyeldin)<br>
7. Re: Palm replacement? Android pad? (John Kerr)<br>
8. Re: Palm replacement? Android pad? (<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>)<br>
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:30:33 -0500<br>
From: Kyle Spaans <<a href="mailto:3lucid@gmail.com">3lucid@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: KWLUG discussion <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Palm replacement? Android pad?<br>
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Wasn't there a guy at one of the meetings selling Androids and Android based<br>
"pads"/tablets? His name was David Christensen, I have his business card. :D<br>
Hopefully he's on the mailing list? I remember he quoted something that was<br>
better than what you'd get from a reseller online.<br>
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:37:05 -0500<br>
From: "Insurance Squared Inc." <<a href="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</a>><br>
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Message: 3<br>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:36:22 -0500<br>
From: Paul Nijjar <<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>><br>
To: KWLUG discussion <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Speech to text<br>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:58:19AM -0500, Kiwi Ssennyonjo wrote:<br>
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> I have clients, doctors that need to find options.<br>
><br>
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> They have all mentioned Dragon, and how they have not ha much luck<br>
> with it.<br>
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I lurk on a list populated by doctors, and they use Dragon and a<br>
medical version of Dragon. The medical version has a medical<br>
vocabulary and thus may require less training.<br>
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Unfortunately Dragon is the leader in this field. There is nothing in<br>
the FLOSS world that compares. There is CMU Sphinx:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
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but it is no competition. (Since Dragon bought Macspeech I am not sure<br>
there is even any real competition in the proprietary world!) You can<br>
apparently make Dragon run in Ubuntu, but I think this is outside the<br>
scope of the discussion:<br>
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<a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=19919" target="_blank">http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=19919</a><br>
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If you don't want to go with Dragon then your options are to use a<br>
transcription service (which gets into big privacy concerns for<br>
medical doctors if they are in the States), typing, or handwriting<br>
recognition. Here is a thread about these options:<br>
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=24535787" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=24535787</a><br>
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Many of the people on this mailing list are open source zealots, so if<br>
there was good competition for Dragon I am sure that the issue would<br>
have come up. Unfortunately it has not.<br>
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- Paul<br>
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Message: 4<br>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:38:05 -0500<br>
From: Paul Nijjar <<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>><br>
To: KWLUG discussion <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Speech to text<br>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:06:01PM -0500, <a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a> wrote:<br>
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> Are there not voice to text apps / devices out there? e.g. (Smart) Phones<br>
> recording voice memos that get downloaded as text, or is it still aways<br>
> downloaded as an audio file, and something on the computer has to do the<br>
> translation?<br>
<br>
There is an iPad/iPhone Dragon app that sends the voice data to an<br>
offsite server for processing. Apparently it works well, but this is<br>
again problematic for doctors because of the privacy<br>
issues/legislation.<br>
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- Paul<br>
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Message: 5<br>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:49:39 -0500<br>
From: <<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>><br>
To: KWLUG discussion <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Palm replacement? Android pad?<br>
Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:9923a7c336c334fbde132a21d62f63d0@swiz.ca">9923a7c336c334fbde132a21d62f63d0@swiz.ca</a>><br>
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:59:26 -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
> With an Android device, your contacts and Calendars are synched<br>
> automatically,<br>
> over WiFi.<br>
<br>
Sync's to what? Google?<br>
<br>
John - what apps does she use on the Palm?<br>
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Message: 6<br>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:14:18 -0500<br>
From: Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>><br>
To: KWLUG discussion <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Palm replacement? Android pad?<br>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:49 PM, <<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:59:26 -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> > With an Android device, your contacts and Calendars are synched<br>
> > automatically,<br>
> > over WiFi.<br>
><br>
> Sync's to what? Google?<br>
><br>
<br>
Yes.<br>
<br>
Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts have built-in apps on Android.<br>
<br>
You have your own copy on the device, and it syncs over Wifi (or over<br>
2G/3G) automatically.<br>
<br>
No cables needed.<br>
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Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br>
<a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>
<a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">http://2bits.com</a><br>
Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci<br>
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:15:37 -0800 (PST)<br>
From: John Kerr <<a href="mailto:jkerr0102@rogers.com">jkerr0102@rogers.com</a>><br>
To: KWLUG discussion <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Palm replacement? Android pad?<br>
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Hi<br>
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Mary just uses her palm for a calendar and contacts database.<br>
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John<br>
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--- On Wed, 2/16/11, <a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a> <<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a> <<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Palm replacement? Android pad?<br>
To: "KWLUG discussion" <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>><br>
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 3:49 AM<br>
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:59:26 -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
> With an Android device, your contacts and Calendars are synched<br>
> automatically,<br>
> over WiFi.<br>
<br>
Sync's to what? Google?<br>
<br>
John - what apps does she use on the Palm?<br>
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Message: 8<br>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:29:10 -0500<br>
From: <<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>><br>
To: KWLUG discussion <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Palm replacement? Android pad?<br>
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:14:18 -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:49 PM, <<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:59:26 -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > With an Android device, your contacts and Calendars are synched<br>
>> > automatically,<br>
>> > over WiFi.<br>
>><br>
>> Sync's to what? Google?<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Yes.<br>
><br>
> Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts have built-in apps on<br>
Android.<br>
><br>
> You have your own copy on the device, and it syncs over Wifi (or over<br>
> 2G/3G) automatically.<br>
><br>
> No cables needed.<br>
<br>
Pity.<br>
<br>
Google is a poor app compared to the richness of the Palm apps, let alone<br>
korganizer, etc. I'll do everything I can to delay switching, if I can, if<br>
that's all there is.<br>
<br>
John - you might see if Mary is happy with what Google provides in terms<br>
of functionality / copy her data in. If nothing else, you get a backup, and<br>
multi-point access. Until you get an Android, that is.<br>
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