Dragon Naturally Speaking 8 Preferred

Rob Williams · 05-30-2006, 09:19 PM

There are literally tons of productivity software out there to be had. Some are applications that allow you to do specific things such as create documents, graphs, spreadsheets and do image editing. Others are used to improve your productivity by allowing you to have better control over the software you are using. Some increase the abilities of the software and some increase the abilities of the user. Today we're looking at one that does the latter.

After reading Matts review here, feel free to discuss it here!

Greg King · 05-31-2006, 12:41 AM

The guy on the front of the box is hot mang!

madmat · 05-31-2006, 10:31 AM

Yeah, I dunno what happened, V.4 had this cute chick on it...

Jakal · 06-01-2006, 06:23 PM

Doesn't Windows come with a talk-to-text converter? Or is that MS Word? Either way, I used that with about 5 minutes of "training" and it did a decent job. I don't use it, but played around with it a couple months back. It was kinda neat.

As far as the Dragon though, I don't have any experience with it. If what you've said is true, then I don't want to. Good try Matt.

madmat · 06-01-2006, 07:17 PM

Oh, it's decent enough and if you use standard english you're golden, I just happen to use brand names in a lot of the texts I write and it's horrible for that.

T-Shirt · 06-03-2006, 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by madmat

Oh, it's decent enough and if you use standard english you're golden, I just happen to use brand names in a lot of the texts I write and it's horrible for that.

But it can learn (or at least older dragon versions could, I stopped upgrading at 6.x because the price was rising faster than the USEFULnew features.

madmat · 06-03-2006, 08:20 PM

Yes it can but I covered that and what a disaster it ended up being.

T-Shirt · 06-05-2006, 01:13 PM

I've never seen ANY recognition software, voice or handwriting that does everything perfect, I found just getting the majority of the text correct and then editing/search and replace did ok (as I said with older versions) and speeded up my work. (because I'm a poor/slow typist, and used to do lots of long reports) Early version of dragon (2&3) on really slow hareware produced excessiveerrors, but sometimes incredibly funny texts.

05-30-2006, 09:19 PM	#1
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05-31-2006, 10:31 AM	#3
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06-01-2006, 06:23 PM	#4
Jakal Tech Monkey Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Missiskippy Posts: 605	Doesn't Windows come with a talk-to-text converter? Or is that MS Word? Either way, I used that with about 5 minutes of "training" and it did a decent job. I don't use it, but played around with it a couple months back. It was kinda neat. As far as the Dragon though, I don't have any experience with it. If what you've said is true, then I don't want to. Good try Matt. __________________ AMD Opteron 150@2.9Ghz 1.5v\|DFI Lanparty Expert 4/06 Bios\|OCZ Gold OCZ4002048ELGEGXT-K 2x1024 242Mhz 3v\|Twin eVga 7800GTs 470/1100 If you have a large quantity of Hot Pockets building up, you simply aren't eating them fast enough.- dibene \| Chaos Havok: grrrr im lagging me My Pics

06-01-2006, 07:17 PM	#5
madmat Former Editor Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Kennesaw GA Posts: 1,639	Oh, it's decent enough and if you use standard english you're golden, I just happen to use brand names in a lot of the texts I write and it's horrible for that. __________________ M2N32-SLI Deluxe, Brisbane X-2 4000+ @ 2986Mhz 2x1 gig OCZ PC26400 Platinum EVGA 7950GT SLI Buncha drives, Some other stuff, Even more stuff, If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. --Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine Sign Me!

06-03-2006, 08:20 PM	#7
madmat Former Editor Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Kennesaw GA Posts: 1,639	Yes it can but I covered that and what a disaster it ended up being. __________________ M2N32-SLI Deluxe, Brisbane X-2 4000+ @ 2986Mhz 2x1 gig OCZ PC26400 Platinum EVGA 7950GT SLI Buncha drives, Some other stuff, Even more stuff, If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. --Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine Sign Me!

05-31-2006, 12:41 AM	#2
Greg King Tech Junkie Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Indiana Posts: 1,976	The guy on the front of the box is hot mang!

06-05-2006, 01:13 PM	#8
T-Shirt E.M.I. Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 95	I've never seen ANY recognition software, voice or handwriting that does everything perfect, I found just getting the majority of the text correct and then editing/search and replace did ok (as I said with older versions) and speeded up my work. (because I'm a poor/slow typist, and used to do lots of long reports) Early version of dragon (2&3) on really slow hareware produced excessiveerrors, but sometimes incredibly funny texts.

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