Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

Ken Ralston — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:05:15 GMT

It is also really good for putting numbers in spread sheets and such. Unfortunately, I had a computer crash and I couldn't get my dragon naturally speaking to reinstall. ( The file SAPIDLL.DLL did not register itself. - was the message I kept getting. ) Checked at their support web page and they had a patch program (spcapi) that solved that problem but now their website will not generate a serial number for the reinstall saying invalid key. (Which it isn't as I downloaded what they had registered for me.)

Here is the interesting part. They want to charge me either $19.95 for phone call or $9.95 just to send them an email!

So my report would be good product - TERRIBLE SUPPORT. All to common a problem in software circles.

re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

Peter Maddern — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:27:05 GMT

Michael, glad you like DNS 8.

Personally, I would upgrade as soon as you can to at least Preferred and ideally Professional. You'll fine they can do a lot more than the standard version. My newsletter lists the differences between the Preferred and professional version.

Also, the standard microphone that comes bundled with Dragon is not that great. You ought to consider something like the Andrea ANC-700 or Parrott Vxi TalkPro Express or even better the Sennheiser ME3 which is one of the most accurate microphones there is for speech recognition.

I live in the UK. But in the States, I believe Marty Markoe of emicrophones.com is really knowledgeable on microphones.

I;m going to add you to my blogroll.

Peter Maddern
www.speechempoweredcomputing.co.uk

re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

Michael Swanson — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:39:00 GMT

Curious...you can use it anywhere that accepts text...at least that's been my experience. Because of the syntax, I'm not sure how well it'd work for programming. And you won't be able to turn the machine on, but you might be able to turn it off.

re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

curious — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:34:00 GMT

Anyone know if this can this be used for programming? I can I used it with Visual Studio? Or navigate web pages? What about turning off and on my PC? Thanks.

re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

Charlie — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:05:00 GMT

I started buying Dragon NaturallySpeaking years ago and it never caught on in my work until version 8. Now I find I'm keeping it booted up all the time and using it regularly.

Chiron the Standard Edition of Dragon and I use it for e-mails, text chat, and transcription work.

For fun I like to debate leftists and Islamists in text chat (www.paltalk.com). With my fingers I can debate two people at the same time. With Dragon I can handle five or six simultaneously.

There is a learning curve just like learning to type so don't start into it expecting magic. Nevertheless, as of version 8, it has become a productive tool for me.

re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

Andrew Glasco — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:28:00 GMT

Wow, that's really neat! Thanks for the video. At 20, I'm developing arthritis that's making it painful to continue typing as much as I'd like, so I really think that this software will help me a lot. I really appreciate this post in helping me to decide if the software is worth my time or not. I'm certainly leaning towards yes!

re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

Laura Sample — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 07:06:00 GMT

Thanks for my Dragon NaturallySpeaking software for Christmas. I started working with it tonight and I'm loving it already. But I can see it's going to take a lot of practice for it to 1) recognize my speech and 2) for me to speak in a way that doesn't result in a series of phrases. I pause so much as I think about what to say that I end up with lots of periods where there should just be spaces...I'll get to used to it.

I do agree that it's an odd tool since I also type MUCH faster than I speak. But I am hopeful that it will help me as I create training manuals. Training manuals should really be written in the way people speak and perhaps this will streamline my revision process by getting the "spoken tone" out of the way up front. Who knows?

Regardless, so far, so good. I'll keep you updated on how it works as we get used to one another. :) Laura

re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

Brant Gurganus — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:09:00 GMT

For the very fact that one can type faster than speak, dictation software will never be anything more than a novelty to non-impaired users. Even in Star Trek and other shows where speech recognition is at what could be seen as the peak of the technology, they still have keyboard-type interfaces.

Command and control technology will catch on. I can say Notepad faster than going two or three levels into the Start menu. This is also where speech recognition technology is shown to excel in science fiction.

re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

Scott Weinstein — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:34:00 GMT

I have a speech recognition wiki with tips and tools at
http://speech.squidnet.com/
take a look around...