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Peter Maddern

Since the launch of version 10 in September 2008, Nuance has been collecting your feedback and working on improvements to make this new version perfect to suit your needs. They would normally wait for version 11 to launch a new version, but the improvements they’ve made to this version are so important that they apparently wanted to share them as soon as possible.

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Speech recognition as exemplified by Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a complex process but can be broken down to contributions from 3 models as follows:-

 
The “Acoustic model” represents the connection between language sounds (phonemes) and the voice signal.

The “Lexicon” represents the connection between phonemes and words.

The “Language model” represents the connection between words and phrases/sentences.

Peter Maddern

Tip – Check your audio settings in Dragon NaturallySpeaking on a regular basis.

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The product marketing manager for Dragon NaturallySpeaking is asking for your help regarding future versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. For the past few months, Nuance’s product marketing manager has been reaching out to present and former Dragon NaturallySpeaking customers for product feedback. Users’ opinions will enable Nuance to fine-tune the specific areas of the product that you would like to see improved. For example: Read the rest of this entry »

I have made some new online demonstrations of two Bluetooth headsets.

See:-

Sennheiser VMX 100 Bluetooth headset

Plantronics Calisto Bluetooth headset (the headset in Dragon Preferred and Professional Wireless)

Peter Maddern