Dragon Naturally Speaking premium 12 just came out today, and the official nuance website says the updated speech recognition software is more accurate, straight out-of-the-box compared to Dragon After using Dragon Naturally Speaking I used the rainbow passage to do a quick check to see if Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 was really better than Dragon Naturally Speaking The cool thing about Dragon Naturally Speaking premium is that you can transcribe recordings from MP3 files.
Only your own voice, sorry! This way I could be sure that any differences between Dragon 12 and Dragon 11 would be due to the voice-recognition software and not differences in the way that I read the rainbow passage. Finally, I saved each transcription into a plain text file and then I used tortoise merge to compare the original document to what Dragon Naturally Speaking transcribed.
Usually, I go through and look at the type of mistakes Dragon Naturally Speaking made to separate word errors from punctuation and capitalization errors, but this time I kept things simple. Check out the results at the bottom of this post. Overall, Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 seems less accurate than Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 for both new user and trained voice profiles.
Here are the results:. The new version of Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 made more mistakes, even straight out-of-the-box test 1 and test 2. In fact, when I analyzed my MP3 of the rainbow passage with commands test 1 , Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 made almost twice as many mistakes as Dragon NaturallySpeaking I guess Dragon really does improve over time! Dragon Speech Recognition. Full Support for your Dragon products.
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Cheat-sheets Lists key tips and commands. Can be modified to include your own notes. If nothing else, most people can speak much faster than they type, which makes speech recognition a great tool to get words into a document. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Professional , released late last year, is the newest version. Here's a closer look at this speech recognition software, its new features and how they could benefit your business.
According to Nuance, Dragon 12 is 20 percent more accurate out of the box compared to version 11, with more natural text-to-speech reading. Moreover, performance has improved thanks to support for computers with multiple cores. Usability improvements include additional personalization options.
For example, you can set Dragon 12 to require users to say "click" to denote a user interface action. Individual users who don't like this feature can disable it.
In addition, Dragon 12 now works with common applications and devices. For starters, it comes with full text control and commands for WebMail services such as Gmail and Hotmail.
Posting updates to Facebook or Twitter with simple voice commands is supported, too. In all, Nuance touts more than new features, improvements and enhancements in Dragon I evaluated the Professional edition You can see a full breakdown of the differences here. The Professional edition supports profile administrative capabilities geared towards enterprise deployments; it will also function over Remote Desktop Connection from a local Windows computer on which Dragon is not installed.
Individual power users, though, will be more interested in its capability to create custom commands to automate frequent or repetitive tasks. The toolset includes Macro Recorder, VBA-style scripting or the organizing of custom commands in custom groups.
Most importantly, Dragon Professional comes with transcription tools such as an auto-transcribe folder agent capable of performing transcription in the background. More on this later. A minimum of a 1GHz Intel Pentium or 1. The specifications are probably not an issue with newer laptops—just don't expect to use it on a first-generation netbook or 5-year-old laptop. Dragon requires 3. As using the laptop's built-in microphone with Dragon was explicitly discouraged, so I used the bundled USB-based microphone for all the tasks in this review.
Installation was a relatively straightforward affair that entails popping in the DVD disc, keying in the serial number and letting the installation run its course. Once installation is completed, Dragon creates a user profile for you. This entails some reading exercises that allow the voice-recognition software to better adapt to your speech.
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