Dragon voice recognition resources and news

Say you have a new computer and want to transfer your old user files from your old PC to your new PC. How do you go about doing that?

This is the Nuance recommended procedure using a flash drive or CD-R. Be sure to check that the new user file works OK on the new PC before you delete the hard drive on the old PC as if something doesn’t work, you’ll need to go back to those old user files. Read the rest of this entry »

Did you know that if you are in a hurry, it is possible for someone else in the team to make corrections to your Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) speech to text dictations on your behalf?

When you save a document in DNS you will be prompted to save the audio data (your actual dictation) with it (Professional version only) when you close your document. First of all, you will need to open NaturallySpeaking’s “options” menu and next to “save recorder dictation with document” say either “ask me” or “always”. When you choose this option a second file, with the same name will appear with a “.dra” extension. These files are linked. Example: If you save a document called “report.doc” you will see another file called “report.dra”. Just copy both of these files to your “agent’s” computer and he or she will be able to perform deferred correction. Your representative will need a local copy of DNS on their machine. You could copy these files over to the second PC using a USB pen drive or better still, across a network, or even e-mail them. License wise, your agent can use your copy of the software on their PC as long as they are only editing your files and not using their own voice to create their own speech to text. if they want to do the latter, an additional license is required. Read the rest of this entry »

I regularly evaluate microphones for performance with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

These are the results of my evaluation of the Olympus Diretrec DR-2000 handheld dictation machine. Read the rest of this entry »

We were pleased to receive the following testimonial today from another satisfied customer:- Read the rest of this entry »

I have seen reports of users having occasional issues with Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) recognition in Microsoft Word. Very often, it is because the DNS add in “dgnword.dll” has become disabled.

Nuance Knowledge Base Article 3059 describes how to re-enable this dll.

It’s such an important article, that I am reprinting it here in full. Read the rest of this entry »

We would like to learn of your experiences of using Dragon NaturallySpeaking with the e-mail client in GroupWise.

Does Select & Say work?
Accuracy?
Can you control the menu by voice?
Any other comments?

Etc

Thank you
Peter Maddern
Speech Empowered Computing

Clearly, the best way for you to realise the real productivity benefits of adopting Dragon voice recognition software is to be given a DEMONSTRATION. Either we dictate from your documents or if you wish, you can be enrolled as a temporary user (after dictating a 10 minute enrollment text) and be guided trying out the programme for yourself.

We do enjoy giving demonstrations at your premises. Whist demonstrating the benefits of speech recognition to you is rewarding, it often takes considerable time and expense and so demonstrations at your premises have to be restricted to companies local to us in North Wales. Consideration can be given to travelling longer distances to give a demonstration if reasonable travel costs are reimbursed.

We have several other free demonstration options (which can also be appealing if you have limited time!)

Contact us now to request a no - obligation demonstration

We are pleased to announce that Speech Empowered Computing passed Nuance’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 9 Partner re-accreditation programme examination today.

Peter Maddern

We’d like to take another opportunity to mention our UK discussion forum - post your questions/comments about Dragon NaturallySpeaking and related topics.

We often get asked if Dragon NaturallySpeaking will run on Mac PC’s. What is your experience?

This is what we have established:- Read the rest of this entry »