Authoring-tool for Russian

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

Dear Dr Bader,
  I have no idea what "authoring-tool" is like, but I have assumed
from your context that you are looking for A-D conversion software
for sound. (I cannot imagine of anything that creates a picture of
horse from the word "horse", or a word "horse" from a picture of
a horse).

How about "Gorynych" which is based on "Dragon Dictate". I heard
it was a dictation program adapted for Russian speech.

As to software that reads Russian text aloud, there are some, but
I have not seen anything that knows the correct stress position.
(The one I know asks the user to indicate the stress position.)

As with OCR, software that recognize traditional media is only
a "near" thing. A 99 % recognition rate may seem impressive, but
it means very many errors every page (the error rate is based on
the number of symbols which includes white space and puctuation
marks: if a single page has 1000 symbols (about 900 letters),
you will have 10 wrong letters, which is irritatingly too many.
It's only a tool to help you type your text, not better. And without
the proper knowledge of the Russian language one cannot proof-read
the final result of any recognition software.

Cheers,
Tsuji

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The best thing is to find digitized materials and make use of
them. Copying traditional audio and video tapes to computer-friendly
media is an easy task, and digitized text for them abound. Use them
side by side, that's all.

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