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Naturally Speaking Dictation

Posted by Rey

I am currently trying out this new dictation software known as NaturallySpeaking and I’m not sure if it’s any good.  I’m speaking as fast as possible to try to ascertain how good it actually is.  And then afterwards I will thought flow of this post to the world wide web, and posted on my blog.  I’m actually surprised that it just recognized the word blog since the previous program kept writing it as a block.  And even surprised at the way that he chooses between two words that sound the same for example to and the number two.  What I do wonder if it will spell the word.  PE are I OD.  That was just a test to see if I can spell out punctuation.  Apparently it can’t.  So that’s all I’m going to upload it onto the web and hopefully it’ll be okay. What’s interesting is that it even edited it out those annoying thinking sounds of me thinking.  It does seem to remove some of the joy from writing though.

Posted in: sweet nothings February 3, 2007

8 Responses to “Naturally Speaking Dictation”

  1. Finrod Says:
    February 3rd, 2007 at 9:26 pm

    What software is it?

  2. rey Says:
    February 3rd, 2007 at 9:49 pm

    Hey Mike/Finrod.

    It’s Dragon’s (now Nuance’s) Naturally Speaking.

    i was happily surprised with the results especially since this was right out of the box without following a demo and doing minor voice training.

  3. MCF Says:
    February 4th, 2007 at 12:11 am

    You should just do a podcast…

  4. Dr Mike Says:
    February 4th, 2007 at 11:28 am

    I’ve only got 512 RAM; do you have 1 GB? Will it run on 512 or should I spring for the extra? It might be worth $200 or so (memory + software) since I’ll be using this to dictate session notes.

  5. rey Says:
    February 4th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    Yeah Mike, I have over over a gig of ram since i do a lot of photoshop work but the programs requirements seem to allow for working at 512 (though I tend to think that if a person is running XP they’ll need the extra 512 anyway).

    I think it’s worth it especially if you’re dictating session notes. It even has an option (that I haven’t played with yet) of transcribing audio files (which I imagine is like if you’re dictating into a recorder and put the file on your computer it’ll convert it to a text format).

  6. Dr Mike Says:
    February 4th, 2007 at 2:06 pm

    Do you have the standard version or the plus?

  7. Dr Mike Says:
    February 4th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    BTW, thanks for fielding all my questions.

  8. Rey Says:
    February 4th, 2007 at 10:22 pm

    Oh no problem, doc. I’m trying out the Preferred Version ( http://nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/preferred/ ) which is $199. The Standard is $99 but it doesn’t seem to include voice training which I think is extremely usefull.

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