Tech at Play

This came in the door over the weekend.  You see, it has been years since I last used a speech recognition software, and I’ve been wondering how the technology has evolved.  Well, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 10 by Nuance Communications Inc is considered as among the best speech recognition software around, and I was eager to give it a try.

The boxed software (no download or trial available) comes with an installation DVD, and a couple of simple installation and usage booklets.  A wired microphone rounds up the speech recognition suite.

I’ve given the product a preliminary spin over the last couple of days, and I must say that I am impressed overall.  Not that it doesn’t make any mistakes in recognizing my voice – but my out-of-the-box, skip-the-manual experience has proven to be surprisingly good.  It does look like it can help me substantially in my writing and also transcribing of interviews.

As I understand it, the accuracy is supposed to get better with time.  Anyway, I’ve hardly scratched the surface of its feature list, so do check back on my experience with it in another 3-4 week’s time.

You can get Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 10 from Amazon. Alternatively, you can find out more from its product page here.

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