Windows 7 Speech Recognition v Dragon Naturally Speaking Version 11.5

[yourallbrainwashed]

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[crackos2008]

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[N47Z86]

Dear sir,

As a Window 7 speech recognition user, I find it hard to believe that dragon speech recognition software is any better than the software that I'm currently using. With the price of $199, and from what I've seen so far, I'm confused at what makes Dragon superior to Windows 7 speech recognition.

[kobun37]

@N47Z86 The speech recognition in Windows Vista was laughably bad. The speech recognition in Windows 7 is much better but Dragon is still more accurate. You can see an example in the video. Dragon gets more words right.

[mygoodstuffreviewed]

@kobun37 I agree, Windows 7 speech recognition is not as good as Dragon. Maybe one day, but then again, why should we expect an all purpose OS to be as good as a specific, tailored made application when it comes to speech recognition?

[mygoodstuffreviewed]

I should have mentioned that I tested version 11.5 with my daughter's iPod and quite honestly I was astonished at how good the recognition is.

If you already have an iPod touch, or iPhone, you can use it as a wireless microphone and save yourself the cost of getting a new microphone. I'll try to make an example video over the next few days to show just how good the recognition is.

[srbellem]

I think about using it, to dictate the first draft of a novel, I write. I'm a fairly quick typer, but I would love to try to get the "spoken language" into the manuscript. But I don't know how fast or slow dictating dialogue would end up.

Could you make a video, where you dictate a real conversation with all the punctuation?

"Like this", he said with a nod.

- You see, where I'm getting to? Lots and lots of punctuation, which might hamper the speed or/and accuracy.

That would be great.

[mygoodstuffreviewed]

@srbellem Ah, yes, I see what you mean. It can do that, although it would be slower - at least I think it would be harder for the person speaking, to keep it clear in their mind!

Give me a couple of hours to make a sample for you and upload it.

[srbellem]

@mygoodstuffreviewed That's great. And very kind of you! I see in your vlogs that dragon is really quite accurate and copes very well. How long did it take you to "train" your dragon?

I'm a writer. And it would be interesting to see, if dictating a novel would significantly change the look of the text in comparison to the typed version.

[mygoodstuffreviewed]

@srbellem The example video is uploaded now so you can see how it works. With a little more practice I think it would be even better.

Whether it would help your creative process, or make it harder, I don't know. In a way it would be a little bit more like telling the story to someone, rather than writing it.

[mygoodstuffreviewed]

@srbellem I forgot to mention that my initial training of the software was about 20 minutes, but the biggest improvement in accuracy came when I bought a good microphone. The one included is ok to get you started, but you'll never get the best accuracy from it.

[33ZackG]

Does dragon 11.5 home edition come with a mic?

[mygoodstuffreviewed]

@33ZackG I'm not sure about the home edition, but I think it does come with the headset mic.

I have the premium edition which comes with a headset mic, but I don't use it. They're not bad, but honestly you can get so much better recognition when you use a better quality mic. £30 for a good USB headset mic, or a lot more for a really high quality mic and your accuracy can be astonishing.

If you're going to want voice dictation, might as well get the best accuracy you can!

[3dGrrr]

I want to use it for school to transcribe my teacher's lessons into text and I was wondering if it would be a good software to use for that? I am worried i won't be able to create and "train" a profile for each teacher to maximize accuracy for all my teachers since you have to manually "train" each profile, correct? I'm wondering if it will train itself after a while with each profile I make for each teacher on its own without having to manually train each profile. Thank you for your help.

[mygoodstuffreviewed]

@3dGrrr Hi. It's not really designed for that and I think you'd find you'd get just a mess if you tried it.

It also needs a reasonably quiet environment, so it wouldn't be that good in an open plan office, for example, or a classroom. I guess it's a personal dictation application, rather than a general voice analyser, if you follow me.