View Full Version : Dragon Naturally Speaking
 
 acagto
May 28, 2008, 04:39 PM
Do you recommend using Dragon Naturally Speaking? Is it useful? Easy to use it?
 twinkiedooter
May 28, 2008, 04:42 PM
A few years ago I tried one of those speak and the machine types what you say.  I ended up using the microphone for other things and taking the program out of my machine as it did not recognize many words and horribly misspelled others.
 Fr_Chuck
May 28, 2008, 04:52 PM
I have a friend who is blind and he uses it.   What he sends me is readable,  but does have spelling issues,  so much is getting it set to your speech,  having a good mike.  But the english language has so many similar words.  To,  two, too  is just one example   sum  some
 
I tried a trial version of it about a year ago,  did not care for it.
Now I will add,  I am not a computer person,  so someone who is a wonder tech may have worked the bugs out where I could not
 JBeaucaire
May 28, 2008, 04:56 PM
Well, I IS a computer person and tried using it for months to aid in my technical writing. The months I spent on it I spent far more time trying to get the thing trained than I ever saved just typing directly a little slower pace.
 
I am sure there is a niche out there for this product, but I gave it the REAL college try and it came up short in my business environment.