July 12, 2005
Can you hear me now?
For this review we looked at Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional Version 8 and IBM ViaVoice Pro USB Edition Version 10. Both products come with a high-quality noise-canceling headset from Andrea Electronics, although they use different models. Dragon NaturallySpeaking comes with Model 91, while ViaVoice includes Model 61.
Both products offer similar speech-to-text capabilities, although the target market is obviously different. Dragon NaturallySpeaking comes with a number of features specifically for enterprises, including a feature that lets you store voice profiles on a central server and transcribe audio files from digital recorders or any handheld device that supports the Microsoft PocketPC operating system. ViaVoice focuses more on individual users, providing most of the same functions as Dragon NaturallySpeaking without the enterprise extras.
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July 09, 2005
Innovations: This Dragon responds--with a little training
Dragon NaturallySpeaking is an add-on software that you can use on your desktop system or on your PDA. In addition to a highly accurate speech engine that runs on your desktop, this package comes with a speech recording application that runs on your Pocket PC or Palm device. So you can carry it on a plane to transcribe while you're on the road.
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July 07, 2005
ScanSoft Introduces New Academic Licensing Program for Dragon NaturallySpeaking
ScanSoft, Inc., a global leader of speech and imaging solutions, today announced the ScanSoft Academic Site License Program, a new academic licensing program that allows academic institutions to take advantage of ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 across an entire organization.
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May 26, 2005
Voice Recognition: Ready for Prime Time
For years, Dragon NaturallySpeaking (now owned by Scansoft) has been the best voice dictation product. Now version 8 of the application fulfills its predecessors' promise by delivering lots of little improvements that add up to much greater usability. Not only does the software present a more-useful-than-ever list of alternatives when you tell it that it has made a mistake, but now it allows you to correct your own verbal mistakes by selecting the error and then saying what you actually meant.
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May 21, 2005
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8
Speech recognition has never been this good. Dragon Naturally Speaking 8 Professional, the latest incarnation of the popular speech-recognition engine from ScanSoft, is better at turning speech into text than any other commercial product on the market we've seen. And though it still makes its fair share of mistakes, correcting those mistakes is remarkably easy. If you've been disappointed with speech-recognition tools in the past, Dragon 8 could turn you into a believer.
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May 10, 2005
Review of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8.0 and IBM ViaVoice 10
Talk into a microphone and the computer types what you say. That's an easy way to describe voice recognition software like Dragon NaturallySpeaking and IBM ViaVoice. Morphing through various forms since 1994, DNS is arguably the best voice recognition software available today. IBM's "40 years of commitment to speech research and development" have in part lead to the ViaVoice software. This article compares these two as well as providing general comments on voice recognition technology.
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