Dragon voice recognition resources and news

Nuance have just announced version 11 of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the PC and is available for pre-order

I will be reviewing this latest release soon but in the meantime these are Nuance’s list of "what’s new" in version 11.

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I know that I’m accused of being a gadget – lover but I’ve been so impressed with Nuance’s Dragon Dictation application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that I’ve made a demo to show it in action.

I think that Nuance have provided an amazing service with this product. If you download it (currently free) on the iTunes apps store, be sure to download Dragon Search at the same time. Another awesome app which lets you search the web by voice.

Simply speak your search queries and get simultaneous results from a variety of top websites and content sources including:

• Google, Yahoo, or Bing (depending on your default settings)
• YouTube
• Twitter Search
• iTunes™
• Wikipedia

If you allow the app to know your location from the iPhone, and, for example, you searched for “restaraunts”, it would return a list of restaraunts local to you. Fantastic.

For more information on these applications, visit http://www.dragonmobileapps.com/

Peter Maddern
Speech Empowered Computing

Nuance have just announced UK version of Dragon Dictation for the iPhone as a FREE application for limited time. See today’s press release

I’ve seen a demo of Dragon Dictation for the iPhone and it’s amazing so get downloading!!

You can dictate texts and e-mails right into the iPhone. Speech to text data processing is done on Nuance’s server (so you need to have a good data connection) and the the transcription results of your voice are delivered as text on the device very quickly.

Quite magical really! But I would say that as I love technology like this.

Peter Maddern
Speech Empowered Computing

Tuesday, 22nd July, 2010
Product Announcement

VoiceTeach LLC introduces VoicePower® for Windows Speech Recognition

VoicePower is an all-in-one speech computing solution that provides unmatched ease-of-use and productive control of the Windows desktop, file system, applications and mouse. Read the rest of this entry »

We have big savings on Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 during the month of June and whilst stocks last!

Now is an ideal chance to up your PC Productivity and get more done in less time with Dragon NaturallySpeaking! Read the rest of this entry »

Do you realise you can search your computer for documents, e-mails and files extremely quickly with Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 10?

The following demonstration shows this in action…..

For more information from Dragon’s help system, click on the search tab and search for “Voice Shortcuts for Desktop Search”.

This is an extremely powerful feature which I really like and which can save you lots of time!

Any comments?

Peter Maddern
Speech Empowered Computing

Ever wondered how to be able to e-mail a web page link to someone from within Internet Explorer itself?

This short video shows you how to do it!

Peter Maddern
Speech Empowered Computing

In the last few weeks Nuance (makers of Dragon NaturallySpeaking) have finalised the http://www.howtousedragon.com/website.

On this site, there are lots of videos and articles about how to use Dragon, plus Tips and Tricks, manuals, etc

Peter Maddern
Speech Empowered Computing

We were pleased to receive this feedback from someone we helped recently:-

Hi Peter,

I am just writing to express my thanks for the time that you spent with me today. It was an extremely impressive piece of communicating, for which I’m very grateful. The amendments that you have suggested I make to my system, appear to have all worked superbly and not only am I getting a speedier response, but I have lost no accuracy whatsoever.

You can be sure that I will be extolling your virtues to any of my friends/contacts that are interested in the subject of speech software

Regards

Bill

With Dragon NaturallySpeaking, saying “New Paragraph” gives two carriage returns and capitalises the first word whereas saying “New Line” gives one carriage return but doesn’t capitalise the first word.

But what if you always wanted to capitalise the first word after saying “New Line” – this is how you would do it.

On the Dragon menu, click on “Words” followed by “View/Edit”

Select the entry “New Line” and click on the “Properties” tab

Change “Format the next word” from “with normal capitalization” to “capitalized” as in the next screen

Click on “OK”

That’s it!

Peter Maddern