Send.”ĭragon’s new shortcuts for Web searching are another winning feature, and these are available in all versions of NaturallySpeaking.
Story idea about local ergonomics clinic. To bring up your calendar, all you have to say is “schedule a meeting” and you can fire off an e-mail note by saying “Send an e-mail to Thomas. I also like using the natural-language commands–a feature that’s available only in the Professional version of the program. In the past, for instance, you had to say “select ‘PC World,'” followed by “italicize that,” and then “go to end of document.” Now you just say “italicize ‘PC World.'” My accuracy rate was 97.7 percent.įormatting text in Dragon’s dictation app, in Microsoft Word, or in an e-mail window has dramatically improved. So I started yakking: I dictated a couple of thousand words (story drafts, e-mail messages) and accuracy was looking pretty good. The company claims that you can achieve up to 99 percent accuracy using the software right out of the box. Though previous versions of Dragon’s software converted speech into text (after appropriate training), this latest iteration delivers better accuracy out of the box, more-intuitive ways to format text, and additional ways to interact with your programs vocally, such as by adding an entry to Outlook’s calendaring option.Įager beavers can dive into dictation after installation by speaking into a headset or their PC’s microphone (a headset is recommended Dragon includes a basic one in the box). Dictate directly into Word and Excel whisk off e-mail messages create calendar entries run searches on Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and other sites hop around your desktop from app to app and search for files containing the keywords you utter. Never mind fussing with a mouse: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Professional lets you talk to your PC to take care of all kinds of business.
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