We have updated our previous noise cancelling headset microphone (see http://speechempoweredcomputing.co.uk/Newsletter/?p=673) with two new, more discrete – looking microphones which are perhaps more in tune with the slim aesthetic appearance of iphones and iPads. As I said in my previous post, I am a big fan of Dragon Dictation on the iPhone. It has been...
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In a recent Dragon NaturallySpeaking training course, we were asked how to apply formatting (shading and borders etc) to specific cells in Microsoft Excel. .To help our customer, I made the following screencast video a demonstration of some useful commands:- The screencast was made with Dragon naturallySpeaking Professional 11.5 and Microsoft Excel 2010. Peter...
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking does a pretty good job at automatically capitalising names and places But you may want to capitalise certain words every time you use them in a document. Is there a way of doing this without having to say “Cap” each time before the word that you would like to capitalise? Yes there...
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This is a video showing a couple of different ways to dictate ordinal numbers in Dragaon NaturallySpeaking 11 (useful for formatting dates):- Note that the convention for creating a word list text file for importing into Dragon chanhed with version 11. With version 11, it is now @Version=Plato written form\\spoken form Whereas with...
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I often get the comment from users of Dragon NaturallySpeaking that Dragon inadvertently heard the “send” command and sent off an e-mail from within Microsoft Outlook before the e-mail was finished! You can get around this behaviour by clicking on the “Commands” tab in the Dragon Options and putting a checkmark in the box...
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The following is a report of our evaluation of this recently – introduced wireless microphone with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please contact us if you would like to get further information or guidance on this system. About the Plantronics Savi 440 The Plantronics Savi 440 appears to be the successor to the excellent Plantronics...
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The following is a report of our evaluation of this system with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please contact us for further information or guidance on this system. Background Sennheiser Communications originally released the DW Office DECT wireless headset microphone and base station for dual use with telephones and PC via an innovative switching system. Later, Sennheiser...
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Nuance recently announced Dragon Dictate 2.5, an update to version 2.0. The “what’s new” can be found at:- http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/by-product/dragon-for-mac/dictate-2-5-features/index.htm This is a free upgrade for version 2.0 users. However, some users reported crashes when using the software on Macs running the latest Lion OS. Nuance have fixed this with an incremental 2.51 update. See...
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Here at Speech Empowered Computing, we are big believers in the power of video marketing. We have endeavoured to create screencasts to demonstrate Dragon NaturallySpeaking as we believe that in this busy world, users are too busy to read large amounts of text. A picture, and particularly a video, can be worth several thousand...
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VoicePower version 11.53 has just been released with new features and VoicePower’s unique features have been awarded 3 US Patents and the 2010 Da Vinci Award for Universal Design VoicePower 11.53 adds: New easier to use, more intuitive, fully speech enabled, graphical interface New and improved documentation New, speech enabled startup, restart and shutdown...
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