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We are in the age of digital information, where we accumulate and store data digitally, at will. More information means more complexities and more ways of making the right statements in the right documents for different clients. Now if you are a person, who keeps drafting pages and pages worth of information digitally, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 is apt for your needs. This software is a premium speech-to-text software that allows users to manage time and deadlines and draft documents as you speak. According to maker Nuance, Version 10 is supposed to be 20 percent more accurate than its predecessor Version 9, and also offers up to 99 percent accuracy. Keeping this in mind, we thought of putting the software to test. System Requirements Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 requires minimum 900MHZ of processing power, 512MB of RAM and 1GB of free hard-disk space. You will also require a noise-cancelling headset microphone, and a 16-bit or equivalent sound card. On the software side, it runs only on Windows Operating Systems higher than Windows 2000, which include Windows XP and Vista, So Mac users can look elsewhere. Set-up I started installing on our test machine, which had Windows XP Professional loaded, and the entire set-up process took me around 15 minutes. As part of the set-up, there is a microphone check that happens. I had a KOSS noise-canceling headset microphone that I used for testing as the in-box headset just failed to pick up any voice signals. We don't know whether it was a hardware issue or a software one. I guess it was the hardware, as it worked perfectly fine on KOSS. Overall, there were no glitches with the software, it had a nice clean install and after a restart there was a small icon that appeared on the taskbar. One really good feature was that as soon as one starts using the software, the text appears wherever you put the cursor. I found the DragonPad to be a cool feature packaged as part of this application. Software Usability Testing The software at the start appears as a nice interface. At first, I started off by reading out a few sentences from the newspaper. I felt about eight out of 10 words were surprisingly accurate. However, After five minutes of use, the number of errors started increasing. Like the word 'Explore' became 'Explode', 'Wonders' became 'Wanders' and then became 'One Door'. I really could not understand whether it was an access issue or something else, so I made my colleague speak and the some errors just kept repeating. So the software picks up sometimes but at other times it doesn't. |
Tags: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 , Nuance , Speech Recognition Software , News , Technology
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