I read the Alice in Wonderland text selection by Lewis Carroll.Īfter about 15 minutes of training, the software could recognize speeds of more than 130 words per minute. The software provides selections of simple-to-read text that the user reads aloud. Using my computer of average processor and speed, it took me about 15 minutes to set up my profile. Dragon NaturallySpeaking takes a few minutes for the software to learn the speech patterns of the user, which it stores as the user profile. The computer can do this quickly by comparing the input with what it already knows about the speaker. In its simplest terms (and the only terms I can really understand), audio input is turned into patterns and the software chooses the most likely pattern based on the history of the speaker. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 11.5 Premium Edition Most people think that speech recognition software is designed to recognize individual words and translate them into text, but the software actually recognizes speech patterns.
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I tested two Nuance products that I'm pretty sure will be absolutely profound to those who don't already use them: Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 11.5 Premium Edition and MacSpeech Scribe, a personal transcription software package designed for Mac OS X. Since I have used Dragon NaturallySpeaking - software that turns voice into text three times faster than typing - for more than 12 years, I know the "ins and outs" of voice recognition software, and in my opinion, public safety would reap the highest benefit of all the industries that could use it.