Comments on: Marc Orchant gives his first impressions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9

By: Mel Buckpitt

Mel Buckpitt — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:20:50 +0000

Thanks for your views JK,

The background noise requirements might be the fly in the ointment for me.

By: jk

jk — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:12:28 +0000

Mel, I mainly use it for blogging and article writing projects using the dictation. This is mostly done in my home office so noise distractions can be kept at a minimum. I have used it occasionally in a Starbucks for dictation, too, but usually in a corner and only when they are not very crowded as they can get very loud. I really didn’t change how I work much to get it to work, I did go through ALL training sessions to get good accuracy and try to always correct through the program as it adjusts the engine to handle uncommon words that I use.

The only real restriction for using any speech recognition program is that you really can’t use it in noisey environments because ambient background noise can affect accuracy quite a bit.

By: Mel Buckpitt

Mel Buckpitt — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:21:29 +0000

JK,
I know that you are a great advocate of this type of application. Is there any chance that you could tell me (us!) how and when you interact with it. I am thinking here about the use scenarios office and mobile etc, what do you do with it, what do you produce with it, what did you have to change in yourself to get it the most out of it. Lastly what you cannot do with it.
I hope my list isnt too long but for me understanding the benefits of use is as important as the technology itself.