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Dragon Naturally Speaking Masters . . .

by ZhaoAnXin
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Hi Warriors,

In a week or two I'm going to have a warrior do some ghost writing for me from my source material (videos, audios, etc.) . . .

I'd like to give them the material in transcribed text rather than video and audio...

I've only ever used Dragon Naturally Speaking to create new content.

Does anyone use it for transcription? If so, is it relatively easy, or are there lots of errors and so on?

Thanks
#dragon #masters #naturally #speaking
  • Profile picture of the author Colin Palfrey
    I used to use it all the time, but don't bother with it anymore.

    I didn't stop using it through any fault of the program, it is just that I type faster than I speak. After my typing speed increased it seemed redundant, but it is the only voice recognition software that works.

    The competition for DNS is a joke, as I tested some alternatives previously to buying it.

    When I used to use it, it worked absolutely perfectly, but I do have an English BBC accent, and this may have been the reason it worked so well for me.

    It cannot understand my son at all and he has an Irish accent, so my current theory would be that it may be very picky about accents.

    It cannot understand the television, so I would theorize it will be equally difficult with mp3 recordings.

    Cheers,
    Colin Palfrey
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  • Profile picture of the author mrdomains
    With a good microphone I find it is quite accurate. it gets better with time too.

    You must read through your text and edit. In every 100 words it will usually get about 5 wrong which is very easy to spot and edit. These are mostly the complicated words where my pronounciation is clunky or simple words that can sound very similar, like bind, mind etc.

    In the beginning I couldn´t get to grips with Dragon because I was dictating and looking at the screen at the same time. My suggestion is to not read what it outputs at the same time as you are dictating.

    Give it al your info and then go back and do a quick edit after you finish, otherwise you will loose your flow and start to sound like a robot.

    I have also stopped dictating punctuation like period, comma, etc. It often gets it right and as before it is very quick to edit after.
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  • Profile picture of the author ZhaoAnXin
    Awesome thanks guys. I'm going to go ahead and play around with it this weekend.
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  • Profile picture of the author Colin Palfrey
    It really is incredible to watch.

    Possibly because of my accent (I don't know) it used to be word perfect. I would write an article without having to change a thing, but I highly recommend you learn the keywords like "new line" or "delete last word" etc... as it makes it far easier to work with.

    Good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author Sandy Cormack
    Dragon ads say it can take dictation from a digital voice recorder (they recommend an Olympus model and even sell a version with it bundled).

    Anyone tried this? This seemed like a great feature if it worked, because you could dictate while driving or whatever and let your recorder do the rest when you get home.
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    Have it on the way, will let you know
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  • Profile picture of the author Player777
    dragon is very good when used with a decent mic. Also the more you use it you can program more words into it so it understands you better. Its a great program for slow typers
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