English), "Commands-Only" (for control but not dictating) and "Teens."ĭragon can also improve its recognition accuracy by data-mining your e-mail and contents of your My Documents folder, which helps Dragon build its list of words and phrases you use, including things like the names of people you e-mail. There are short passages you can read to help the application adjust to your voice, and different vocabulary types you can choose from, such as "General" (U.S. Next, you select your accent (such as "Inland Northern U.S.," "British-accented" or "Spanish-accented English"). You start with short tasks to confirm good microphone placement and volume settings. Calibrationĭragon NaturallySpeaking installs quickly and easily.īefore you begin using the software, you have to calibrate it to help it work with your voice and speaking style. I tested Dragon NaturallySpeaking on a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge notebook with an Intel 1.30-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo U7300 CPU and 4GB of RAM, running Windows 7 Professional (64-bit). But it seemed to carry my voice input adequately. On its Web site, Nuance refers to it as "a high-quality noise-canceling headset," but given that it's included in the $99 Standard edition, I was skeptical about how "high-quality" the headset could be. But most users could make do with the significantly less expensive Standard or Preferred editions.Īll editions of Dragon include a headset.
The Preferred edition adds shortcuts and the ability to translate from a handheld recorder, while the Professional version adds network administration, the ability to combine commands, and better integration with applications.įor this review, I tested Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Professional Version 10.1. The various editions are supersets of the Standard package, meaning they all include dictation and voice-control capabilities.
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