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16th Jan 2014, 8:15 PM		#1 REPORT
	Juke Jules SUBS Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow Member since Jan 2011 4138 Points Moderator	Contributors to 45worlds will be well aware of the difficulty of entering accurately all the details of a record, and especially of a 12" album, where you must repeatedly alternate between looking at the record and the screen. I was discussing this with an old friend who has been using speech recognition software to transcribe technical papers for many years, and he persuaded me to invest in Dragon Naturally Speaking, Home Edition. The sophistication of this s/w is quite amazing; first you train DNS to understand your voice, then it progressively learns the sort of work you are using it for, which in my case is disjointed and unrelated words, with many unusual names, rather than flowing sentences. The default vocabulary is immense, with a comprehensive understanding of Proper Nouns, place names and cultural references, and you can teach it new words and expressions whenever you need. Names like Serge Koussevitzky or Narada Michael Walden will be no problem, and you can spell if it gets anything wrong. It responds to all punctuation and many editing commands, and it understands to save or open documents. You need to use the help menus while you are learning how to use DNS, and you will quickly appreciate the power of the program. Dragon Naturally Speaking is a product of Nuance.com, who have offices in the UK and in Europe, as well as the USA, and although the products may appear a little expensive for the home user, they have frequent discount offers, making the package quite irresistible. For example, they are offering, until 20 Jan. DNS Home for PC or Mac at £39.99 - see Nuance Winter Sale or in the USA http://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/DisplayHomePage They are very helpful if you order over the phone, and there is technical support just a phone call away if you need it. If someone else wants to use the s/w you create a new user profile and it learns to recognise their speech. I bought two copies in a 2-for-1 deal so that my partner can have a separate installation on her machine. If this sounds like something that might interest you, take a look at the demonstration video on their website.

16th Jan 2014, 8:33 PM		#2 REPORT
	Juke Jules SUBS Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow Member since Jan 2011 4138 Points Moderator	Further to the above, there is a video on the UK pages: http://www.nuance.co.uk/dragon/index.htm They also offer the Premium Edition which supports Bluetooth connectivity and is better suited to use with dictating machines, and a Pro edition which is the all-singing all-dancing version, but the only real benefit for us enthusiasts is that it supports alternative specialist vocabularies for different types of work

17th Jan 2014, 4:15 AM		#3 REPORT
	scrough 🍰 No picture 'cos I'm not into 45rpm :( Member since Jan 2013 3429 Points Moderator	Juke Jules wrote: .. and a Pro edition which is the all-singing all-dancing version .. Recognising singing isn't that far removed from speech, but how does it recognise dancing? Edit: More seriously, Dragon has had a good reputation for accuracy for many years (15?). My wife used it with Lotus Office on PC, but her problem was that she'd laugh whenever she saw a strange spelling of what she was saying, which it then tried to write into the document, and the laughing loop went on and on .... Edited by scrough on 17th Jan 2014, 3:50 PM

21st Jan 2014, 9:24 AM		#4 REPORT
	Dr Doom SUBS I wanna eat an artichoke once in a while Member since Feb 2008 25247 Points Administrator	Many humans can't understand what I'm saying. (I have a weird hybrid accent and tend to mumble) I don't hold out too much hope for a computer understanding me.

21st Jan 2014, 7:06 PM		#5 REPORT
	Deltics "It can get a bit trainspottery" Member since Aug 2010 408 Points	Dr Doom wrote: Many humans can't understand what I'm saying. (I have a weird hybrid accent and tend to mumble) I don't hold out too much hope for a computer understanding me. Sorry, Doc, I didn't quite catch that. Could you say it again slowly?

19th Mar 2014, 12:55 AM		#6 REPORT
	Juke Jules SUBS Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow Member since Jan 2011 4138 Points Moderator	I was just now using Dragon to enter a box set album; okay only 75 tracks but still a lot of work. At first I struggled to get it to work correctly, but after I turned off the radio and had a retraining session to get it used to my voice which is a little husky tonight, it went flying along. It obviously knows many of the artists names, some are famous and generally known while some had probably been learnt in earlier sessions, and it is noticeable that if spoken as a name rather than as two words Dragon will make sense of it as a name. I was particularly impressed that it dealt with two composer surnames which are phonetically the same but spelt differently, when the forename was included. I notice that Nuance are again offering a reduced price at present, if you are considering buying Edited by Juke Jules on 19th Mar 2014, 12:57 AM

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