Dragon Naturally Speaking : Java Glossary

To work well, you need a high quality noise-cancelling microphone and a USB (Universal Serial Bus) microphone pod. A pod is a  external sound card that attaches to a USB port. This way the analog-to-digital happens outside the electrically noisy computer case. Even the pod leaves you susceptible to electrical noise from your monitor. You might go for an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) monitor to reduce that interference further.

You need a 700+ MHz computer and 256+ MB ram, in other words almost any PC less than 5 years old will do. You also need an approved microphone. Your productivity is greatly magnified by voice macros. You can arrange that any word type any series of keystrokes. Further, you can create macros with parameters, loops and other logic. Unlike keystroke macros, there is no practical limit to how many macros you can define or how many you can remember. It can be used for word processing, programming, filling in tables and spreadsheets, anything you might do with a keyboard. The only things it can’t do are mouse intensive tasks like PaintShop Pro. Speakeasy Solutions create macro packages and special purpose interfaces to Dragon Naturally Speaking Pro. They also sell headsets, pods and handheld solid-state digital recorders. You can wander off, record your thoughts, then plug your handheld into the computer for transcribing.

For an app to permit voice editing, it needs to link with the voice interface. Usually all you must do to make an app fully voice aware is link it with an object file the Speakeasy people will give you. You don’t have to write any special code. Without this, you can still do data entry, but editing is not as clever. I unsuccessfully tried to talk the makers of my favourite software packages into doing this.

To work well, it needs a good quality microphone. The quality of the headphones is unimportant to it, as is the durability of the headset.

It comes in over five editions:

electronic link to Dragon NaturallySpeaking Home 13.0 [Download]

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Comes with various bundlings, CD/electronic, with headset, with book. Details.
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electronic link to Dragon Premium 13.0, English [Download]

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Does not include a headset or digital recorder. Comes is various bundlings. Can transcribe from a digital recorder. Works in spreadsheets. details. Price varies drastically over time and retailer. The download is over 3 gigabytes, the equivalent of 5 CDs. If you purchase online, use Chrome. Make sure to backup the download to DVD. Activation ensures it will work on only one computer.
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A simple version often comes bundled with a digital recorder.

The less expensive versions have fewer features and can run on smaller machines.

Downsides

• You need an office by yourself. Your babbling will disturb others and other people talking will interfere with your work.
• It is a strain on your voice. You can’t talk non-stop all day long without strain. You need then to alternate between voice and key entry to give your voice a rest.
• The transcription will have perfect spelling, but perhaps totally the wrong word. This makes proofreading a quite different from proofreading typing.