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DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING BLUETOOTH HEADSET SOFTWARE

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However, if your interaction with the software is more stop-start, the numbers of mis-recognition errors may increase and you will then spend more time going back and making corrections. If your work allows you to speak fluently, in complete sentences, we see no reason why you shouldn’t be able to achieve the three-fold increase in speed over typing that Nuance claims for DNS 10. If you can speak in complete sentences, the recognition rate is faster still. It’s certainly true that words pop up in the DNS speech bar more quickly than they used to and this is welcome, because otherwise if you’re forever waiting for the program to catch up, dictation becomes very hesitant. It’s also worthwhile letting the program look through your documents and emails to build up a personalised vocabulary of the words you’re likely to be using.Īlthough Nuance claims a 20 per cent improvement over the 99 per cent accuracy of the previous version, its main claim this time is increased recognition speed. As we said at the time, you would get better results if you did invest the 20 minutes or so in basic training and this is still true with version 10. The big feature of the previous version of DNS was that it needed no training and could be used straight out of the box. Unfortunately, the review sample we tried gave a lower speech quality index and when we listened to the input, was noticeably more distorted than the headset with DNS 9. This is obviously quite a lot cheaper to include than the DECT headset, and would be more convenient, if it gave adequate speech quality.

Now everything’s done from a USB Bluetooth adapter and a separate USB lead that you plug directly into the headset for charging. The older DECT one included a cradle and worked via USB, but also had a mains power supply, which was needed to charge the device. The Plantronics Calisto headset replaces the DECT wireless headset, which was supplied with DNS 9.

We’re going to concentrate on DNS 10 Preferred Wireless (approx £200), which now includes a Bluetooth headset in the box.

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Finally, the Professional version (£758) adds network compatibility, multiple vocabularies and a full scripting language, to define your own commands. If you want control over a wider range of applications, DNS 10 Preferred (£150) also works with all of Office and e-mail clients like Outlook and Outlook Express. Specialist medical and legal versions of the program exist, too, as well as two different versions of the Preferred edition: Wireless and Mobile.ĭNS 10 Standard (£80) is good for dictation into mainstream programs, such as Word and WordPerfect, as well as controlling web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox and AOL. There are three main editions of the application: Standard, Preferred and Professional.

The Vista speech recognition is worth trying if you haven’t used the technology before, but Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) will give you more accurate results and has wider application.ĭNS 10 is the latest iteration and claims several innovations to differentiate it from version 9. Over those years, buyouts of one company by another have reduced the number of developers until Nuance, formerly ScanSoft, formerly Dragon is now the only mainstream purveyor, other than Microsoft (in Vista). Speech recognition has been ‘the application to change the way we interact with our computers’ for the last 15 years or so.

Dragon naturally speaking bluetooth headset