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 Peter Maddern

At Speech Empowered Computing we’re always excited about the productivity and cost saving benefits of using voice recognition in the workplace to create reports, letters, memos, E-mails, spreadsheets and presentations etc.

So much so that we’re happy to give up time to give a live demonstration to your company or organisation with no obligation to purchase. All we ask is for reasonable travel expenses and your time.

So if you’d like a fun hour or two being shown interactively what voice recognition can do for you Business or Organisation, whay not contact us to arrange an onsite demonstration.

I was recently asked on the Forum if Dragon NaturallySpeaking woulde work with Open Office. I installed it and here’s what I found with “Writer”, Open Office’s Word Processor application:- Read the rest of this entry »

First of all, what’s “Select & Say” anyway?

Select-&-Say refers to NaturallySpeaking’s ability to always know where the cursor is positioned, automatically maintain proper formatting and the ability to select word(s) by voice in order to dictate over the selected word(s).

Dragon Natspeak doesn’t have proper Select & Say functionality in certain programmes. A good example in a programme I use a lot is Microsoft PowerPoint. Whilst you have some Select & Say functionality with Dragon in PowerPoint, it’s not at the same level as say in Microsoft Word.

Well all is not lost. Dragon has a tool called Dictation Box. You can invoke it by voice by saying “show dictation box or manually by clicking on “Tools” and “Dictation Box” in Dragon’s menu bar. Here’s what it looks like running in PowerPoint

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