DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING HOME EDITION INSTALL
DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING HOME EDITION SOFTWARE

How long that takes will vary depending on in the size of your My Documents folder.

DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING HOME EDITION SOFTWARE

With that completed, you can let the software scan your My Documents folder so it can analyse your writing style and also pick up commonly typed bits of information such as the email addresses you use, to help it improve the accuracy of its speech recognition. The setup process takes under a quarter of an hour. Nuance maintains a non-comprehensive list of headsets it has tested for compatibility. It's perfectly serviceable, but you should be able to use any existing headsets that you may already have. It's the headset we used to test the software with. It's a fairly low end but perfectly acceptable over-the-head, adjustable headset with a hinged microphone. Naturally Speaking 11 Premium is available bundled with a wired headset. You also need to calbrate your headset during setup. As part of the short induction process, you have to read out a few sample sentences to further train the software to your voice. This basic data gives it a few pointers to help it understand your voice. It needs to know what region of the world you live in and any accent you might speak with, as well as your age bracket. The software needs some basic information before you start working with it.

DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING HOME EDITION INSTALL

We installed it on a laptop with a fresh install of Windows in order to test this, and have to say we were impressed. Naturally Speaking 11 Premium is supposedly more accurate from the very start, requiring less training and delivering greater productivity in those all-important early stages of use. There are other claimed improvements, too. That's a bold and slightly perplexing claim since version 10 appeared (about a year ago) with a 99 percent accuracy claim. Nuance claims Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 Premium has a 15 percent improvement in accuracy over the previous version.

This has certainly been the experience of this writer's regular work with a number of previous Naturally Speaking versions going back several years.

It's fair to say that only in recent years have computer processors become powerful enough to enable it to deliver on its potential. Nuance's Dragon Naturally Speaking is the most well-known and most popular speech-to-text program and it has a long history. Speech recognition software can be a godsend for sufferers of repetitive strain injury, the disabled as well as for people who just aren't very good at typing.

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