Have you ever seen or heard of those programs that use voice speech recognition to create documents? I have but I hadn’t heard anything about them lately and I wondered if they were even being used anymore. Surely there must have been a new invention that had replaced speech recognition and was better or more accurate.
Apparently you shouldn’t fix what isn’t broken because I found out that Speech Recognition software still exists and it is better than ever. I am posting a link to a user who is demonstrating how to use the Dragon Naturally Speaking Speech Recognition system to type a document. I also wanted to give you guys a copy of what he typed using the system of speech recognition. I can’t really tell you guys how useful this system would be to those of us who think and type all day long. I write my blog posts from my head and so I am not copying something I wrote ahead of time. If I could just speak what I wanted to write as I was thinking it would make telling my stories so much more simple. So many times I realize that my brain is working faster than my fingers and I have forgotten part of my post because I wasn’t typing fast enough. Have a look at what this system can do. I love it!
Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 was used to create the following text as demostrated in the video above.
The video above was created by a blogger that goes by the name, SuperZ.
I couldn’t write that name before using Dragon NaturallySpeaking until I trained Dragon NaturallySpeaking to recognize the name SuperZ. I mention that because I’m using Dragon NaturallySpeaking right now to write this article (notice Dragon new when I said the words right now that I meant the word right and not the word to write).
I’ve been writing articles and reviews about Dragon NaturallySpeaking for close to two years. I’ve had a lot of experience with the software, and I wanted to reach out to other bloggers and see what they thought of the software.
SuperZ tried out the software and as you can see from his own video, the results that he’s getting after having used the software for just a week are pretty amazing. His computer is keeping up with just about every word that he says, and typing those words out for him in text.
Well frankly that’s exactly what Dragon NaturallySpeaking is supposed to do these days and it lives up to its claim of achieving 99% accuracy and I’ve clocked it typing faster than its claims of 150 words per minute.
That’s right you can type 150 words a minute with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. You do have to spend a little time editing from time to time, but you type so fast that editing doesn’t take that long. You get the typing done faster and the editing is a breeze because you only have to look at the way that you phrased words. Dragon NaturallySpeaking almost never makes a spelling mistake. It types out the entire word based on the vocabulary that has stored in the machine. So it really can’t misspell a word it’s pulling the word straight out of a dictionary.
The only exception might be the case when you run into a name like SuperZ, which is not in your dictionary yet. When you run across a name like that, all you have to do is add it into your dictionary and train the software to recognize that new word or name. It just takes a second and after that you’ll be able to say SuperZ all you like and Dragon NaturallySpeaking will know exactly what you are talking about.
Sincerely,
Brett Bumeter
Softduit Media
www.softduit.com
PS this article includes about 381 words that I wrote with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10. It took me about 4 minutes to write and 4 minutes to edit this article. The writing time included the short amount of time it took to train dragon to recognize the name SuperZ. Editing took 4 minutes because I’ve been working all night and I’m not reading too fast! J
Now that you have seen what this system can do I am sure that you can see its usefulness. I can imagine this program working well for authors, students, bloggers, online journalists and anyone else who wants a hands free way to get the information they want on to the page. I also think my 7 year old would love this program. She likes to write songs. However, she isn’t a very speedy writer right now. She is slow. She knows the words she wants and can say them she just forgets them in the time it takes to put them to paper. Imagine what she could do if all she had to do was say the words she wanted. Her songs wouldn’t be lost in her head any longer. What a blessing that would be. Check out this system and please let me know how it goes. I love to hear back about how my suggestions work for other people.
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