Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 (1 Viewer)

[jm1234567890]

I saw a demo of this at CeBit and it seemed pretty damn accurate and fast. So I 'acquired' it and tried it out.

and it is what is claims to be! After 5 min of training with my crappy $5 mic I can get almost perfect accuracy. I'm definately using this to write up reports.

there isn't any wait time between speaking and the words appearing on the screen.
It's nothing like the crappy voice recognition built into office.

You people should try it out.

 

[Atticus.]

oh oh oh
how can i get it?

 

[Rafy]

I have Dragon Naturally Speaking 5.

Quite frankly impressed with it i was not.

Although im sure the technology has come quite far in the 5 years since then.

Im a fast talker so do you have to talk slowly?

 

[jm1234567890]

I have Dragon Naturally Speaking 5.

Quite frankly impressed with it i was not.

Although im sure the technology has come quite far in the 5 years since then.

Im a fast talker so do you have to talk slowly?

the chick at CeBit demonstarting it was speaking really fast, but i guess they had a good mic.

they claim 160 words/min

I can't speak that fast, so I don't know.

 

[SashatheMan]

so what can u use this program on. eg on BOS?

 

[jm1234567890]

so what can u use this program on. eg on BOS?

anything, but it is annoying cause i can't listen to music while dictating without a good pair of head phones.

 

[fatmuscle]

if you think it's good, I'll give the program a go.

I didn't bother with speak > text programs after ViaVoice

 

[noneother]

Yes the old Dragon Naturally Speaking was more frustrating than not. I'm keen to see how ver 8 performs, seems like there's been significant changes from your description.
although i feel speaking doesn't come as naturally for me as does typing. the only advantage i can think of is relieving my sore wrists.

 

[jm1234567890]

Although it is very accurate, it is still annoying to fix mistakes.

I think the idea is to just keep speaking and fix the mistakes using the good ol' keyboard once you've finished.

 

[ogmzergrush]

the only advantage i can think of is relieving my sore wrists.

You know, there are probably alternative solutions to that problem

Re: Naturally Speaking, that often looks good, sometimes I'm too tired to sit at the computer and work, but could totally handle lying around dictating (Till I fell asleep anyway)

 

[malkin86]

The latest version of Dragon is a nice little program - finally recognises the Aussie accent!

Atticus: Dragon won't run on Macs, though, and I'm not sure how good the accent-recognition is in Mac-based products.