Not a very reliable way, I would think.
Almost all voice recognition (VR hereafter to save typing) software that I
have seen uses computer learning to help understand the way the user
pronounces words. This is done to account for regional accents and such.
For instance, around here they used to produce steel, but they pronounce it
the same as the word still. The VR program has to be able to learn these
variances to be effective in recognizing what the user said. This is
exactly the behavior you do not want if you are teaching pronunciation. You
will need to find a way to disable this learning and check if the
software's unaltered 'acceptable pronunciation range' is narrow enough to
meet your needs.
Also, some computers have a rather tough time keeping up with the VR
software. A long delay followed by half a paragraph of display text are
common on older machines.
Otherwise, you can do this with a bit of VBA and a special textbox during a
presentation. The VBA will need to check the word in this textbox whenever
the text is altered (as entered by the VR software) and then based on a list
of acceptable answers, change something or jump to another slide that looks
the way you want. VBA has its fair share of limitations, so, in many cases,
VBA is not an acceptable answer.
Do you currently use Dragon's VR software?
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