Voice recognition software has continued to progress over the last several years. Dragon Naturally Speaking is probably one of the most well known and most widely used programs for voice recognition. A recent article in PC World states that the latest version, Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 boasts a 99 percent accuracy rate out of the box!
Previous versions were able to obtain 99% accuracy, but this was only after a user read a script to train the program. That means no “training” session with this version, although one is still available if a user isn’t completely satisfied.
They have labeled the new version “uncannily accurate” however, it still may take a few days for the program to train itself which will increase accuracy. Accuracy depends on how a person talks, and the sound quality. Nuance, the maker of the software is certifying two Bluetooth wireless headsets for use with the software making it more convenient. Also important to note, the 99% accuracy rate is for the American English version.
This new release is available for Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Australian, Asian, Indian, and U.K. English.
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Beware of the many pirates on Ebay selling Dragon Preferred / Standard 9.5 at about 1/5 of retail cost. They have no manuals and dodgy microphones. But most disturbing of all what they do is:
Each version of Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 allows for 5 installs ( in case you reformat or change computers) then you cant register it again without contacting nuance.
So these dodgey ebayers buy 1 copy of retail Dragon software and sell it 5+ times. So EVENTUALLY if not immediately the people who buy these dodgey version cant activate their product as one person may have installed twice! In other words the product is useless.This will ALWAYS happen eventually so 100% of these buyers will blow their money eventually. Avoid these ebayers at all costs.
Heres some examples of this
http://myworld.ebay.com.au/spe.....cognition/ Already starting to get the negative feedback and some comments about photocopied manuals.
Also this looks the same http://myworld.ebay.com.au/nicechild/
We’ve had a lot of calls from people burnt by this but franky when you can see this software at 1/5 retail price then you get what you deserve in my opinion.
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