DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING REVIEW HOW TO
DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING REVIEW SOFTWARE

Okay, I’m exaggerating, but you get the idea – I was impressed. I was immediately blown away – out of my ergonomically-adjustable office chair, through the window of my office, and into the basketball goal outside. First impressionsĪfter setting up my profile and starting Dragon for the first time, I fired up OpenOffice Writer and dictated a few paragraphs from a nearby book. After this process is complete, Dragon offers to scan your email and documents in order to learn your vocabulary (a step I skipped because it doesn’t recognize Mozilla Thunderbird and OpenDocument files) and then it’s ready to use. I chose to deliver the first few stanzas from John F. This involves reading out loud from one of several selections made available by Dragon.

DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING REVIEW HOW TO

This training is mutual – Dragon trains you on how to use the software, but the main point is for you to train it so it will recognize your particular speaking style. There is the usual short installation process, followed by ten minutes or so of training. The best I can say about the headset is, it works – and it will do if nothing else is available. This headset is definitely in the lightweight division, and its mic boom makes a clicking sound like a nylon tie when you adjust it. “Freebie” is not exactly used as a term of endearment here. (For the rest of this review, imagine the sound of me popping the bubbles between phrases.) Then there’s the Dragon DVD itself, a quad-fold quick reference card, a headset “Y” adapter, and a freebie headset. The first and most important item is a piece of bubble wrap, thoughtfully included to give your hands something to do instead of typing. Inside Dragon’s blue-and-green box, you will find five things.

Potential users of other editions, or Dragon Dictate for Mac, please remember that your system might be different from what I describe here. Note: My review sample was Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Premium.

DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING REVIEW SOFTWARE

The gold standard in this area, of course, is Dragon NaturallySpeaking – so I finally contacted Nuance Software and received a free sample. For a long time I have been curious about hands-free computing with voice control. I am speaking – not typing – this sentence into my computer, which is a new experience.

Dragon naturally speaking review