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Speech Recognition in our Real Life

30 jul 2010

Speech Recognition in our Real Life
Nuance, a company that makes speech recognition apps for virtually everything from desktop computers to mobile phones to your car’s GPS, has created an interesting video that suggests how their various pieces fit together.

Dragon Naturally Speaking on Mac

16 feb 2010

Popular Windows-only voice recognition software Dragon Naturally Speaking could seen be available for Mac users as well. Nuance, the company that develops Dragon Naturally Speaking, today acquired MacSpeech that also provide speech recognition software for the Mac.

Stop Typing, Start Dictating Emails on your iPhone

07 dec 2009

Stop Typing, Start Dictating Emails on your iPhone
Nuance, the makers of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, have released a new voice recognition app for iPhone that lets you dictate emails, blog posts, SMS text messages or any other text into your iPhone.

Get a USB Microphone for Speech Recognition

23 sep 2009

This advice comes from Dragon Newsletter (I have a Samson C01 U which is also a USB mic): Select a USB Digital Microphone: The built-in array microphones are generally poor performing in most machines, including netbooks.

Dragon Naturally Speaking Tips and Tricks – Formatting Numbers

26 aug 2008

In most cases, you can dictate numbers, including phone numbers and addresses, as you normally say them. (Dragon can differentiate the need to type out "eight cars" vs. using the numeral for "8 Chestnut Street.") If you want to dictate only numbers, such as when dictating in a spreadsheet program, you can turn on Numbers Mode within the Words menu of the DragonBar.

Improve Accuracy in Dragon Naturally Speaking

25 aug 2008

This nice tip on "Issuing Commands" to improve voice recognition accuracy comes from Dragon NaturallySpeaking e-letter. If you’re telling the computer to do something, and it doesn’t seem to be listening, or simply isn’t completing the right task, the problem could be the way that you issue your commands.
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