On one hand the speech recognition is great. That’s why we’re here right? The app itself is half-pleasent to use.
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Now that we’ve covered the speaking conventions used when talking to Dragon Dictation on the iPad, let’s talk more about the app itself. I don’t really have to put much thought into writing punctation, but when talking, it takes a level of concentration and focus to do it. Now if you thought reading that was bad, imagine saying it? In reality it’s not difficult, but just a different way of thinking. “Hey there! I’m (really) glad to see you,” turns into: open quote hey there exclamation point I’m open parenthesis really close parenthesis glad to see you comma close quote. If you want to place a comma in your sentence, you have to physically say, “comma.” This mental transition from just talking, to actually inserting it into a rather mechanical conversation, can be difficult at first. Essentially, with dictation software, you have to talk like you write. While those familiar with Dragon Dictation will have no problems in using the software, newbies might have a slow start. Where the magic happens, is how you talk to said software. The same thing will happen in most, if not all speech recognition applications. Great for a search engine, but bad for producing documents. But everything ends up being a run-on sentence. It understands what words come out of my mouth - that’s getting pretty easy.
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Certainly there are ways that help imitate these things, like italics and ellipses, but computer software isn’t always smart enough to judge or understand how to take what comes out of our mouths, and reproduce it in text form.įor example, when I use my Droid’s Google Navigation or its universal search functions, if text is sent back to me, there is never a period or a comma. But when we speak, we don’t reproduce those same punctuations, as our focus is on emotion, emphasis to key words, and pausing between key ideas. When we write, type, and produce documents of text, as people we’re wired to insert that comma and place periods in good form. But when it comes to “writing” documents using dictation, you have to learn a new mode of thinking. You can open your browser and fetch mail while feeling like a star space cadet. For those who have played with or own MacSpeech, performing commands, I think, is quite intuitive.
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Somebody needs to come along and put them out of business, in my opinion.Dictation software in general is somewhat of an odd thing to a person who has never practiced it, especially if you’re trying to produce documents.
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What little respect that I had for Nuance as a 25 year Dragon user on multiple platforms has really gone down the drain.
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Probably the best option will be PC emulation on the Mac to run Dragon Naturally Speaking V15, but I shudder to think what that is going to cost as my MacBook Air has only 4 GB of memory, which is not sufficient to do PC emulation along with DNS15. A PC is not the answer for me I have been on that route for too many years. Now with it's demise there is a huge void in the Mac world for voice recognition dictation. I learned to write necessary new words down on paper and then add them to the program one at a time after dictating and avoiding any on screen voice recognization of correction and editing commands and with this scheme the program was serviceable for me for complex report dictation. The program can only learn one new word at a time for the vocabulary file, having to save the entire file after each addition, really time consuming and frustrating but probably necessary because of it's frequent crashes. The program does work well for straight forward speech recognition to get thoughts down on the screen rapidly, saving edits for the keyboard. Yes, their program did not work as well on a Mac because the control and correction features were bug laden and caused multiple crashes. It really is a loss for Nuance to completely pull out of Macintosh support.