CREATING A USER
As everyone will speak in a slightly different way, you will need to create a user account for each person who may use the software.
Creating the account is easy and you have a few choices including language, accent and source.
You are then walked through the process of positioning your microphone/headset and testing various elements such as the volume and the quality.
TRAINING
In order to really get this work for you, you need to do some training. This is both to train you how to speak correctly and also for the software to get used to you.
To make it more interesting, you have the option of what text you want to read as part of the training process – I really liked this!
The training can take around 15 minutes and afterwards you can have Dragon adapt to your style by going through your emails and documents.
Now that this training session is complete, you are offered the choice between running the tutorial, seeing what is new in this version or just jumping straight into dictation.
I decided to jump straight in to see just how good, or bad, it would be with only one training session.
There are training documents and videos available at http://www.tinyurl.com/dragondocs and http://www.tinyurl.com/dragontraining. As a declaration of openness, I'm the Technical Manager for Nuance in the UK, and I write for http://www.mswhs.com as well.
thanks Gary
I'll check those out was well.
I've read some of your articles on Phil's site.
Andrew
I use the built-in Windows 7 Speech Recognition with my webcam microphone. I like the ease of use as long as it is quiet in the office! This product seems like a good alternative for people who want advanced speech capabilities.
thanks Tim 🙂
One thing I havent mentioned in this review is that the headset has a noise cancelling microphone and also the software during the training phase listens to your background noise and attempts to filter it, and so far it has worked!
Andrew
can it be installed onto whs so it can be networked?
Todd
I havent tried that yet, but I will add it to my list.
My guess is that it wouldnt work because of the licence requirement on the PC where the software is loaded, but let me see what I can find out.
Also, the headset needs to be connected to the machine where the software is.
Again, I will dig deeper 🙂
Andrew