Comments on: Voice recorders for Dragon NaturallySpeaking http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2007/10/17/voice-recorders-for-dragon-naturallyspeaking/ Computer and technology questions and answers from Andy Kaiser Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:16:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Gary http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2007/10/17/voice-recorders-for-dragon-naturallyspeaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1514 Gary Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:50:35 +0000 http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2007/10/17/voice-recorders-for-dragon-naturallyspeaking/#comment-1514 "Just a reminder that Dragon and other dictation software has to be “trained” to one voice to work well as a transcriber". That used to be true, but Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) 10+ seems to have worked around that. Of course you still have to proof read the text (an example used in the DNS doc's - "go to room B40" - may come out as "go to room before tea"). I bought the least expensive of DNS a year ago after giving up on speech to text software a few years ago. And was very pleasently surprised with new program. A bigger concern to me would be the quality of the voice recorders output. To really get good results with DNS I bought a GOOD Plantronics headset. “Just a reminder that Dragon and other dictation software has to be “trained” to one voice to work well as a transcriber”.

That used to be true, but Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) 10+ seems to have worked around that. Of course you still have to proof read the text (an example used in the DNS doc’s – “go to room B40″ – may come out as “go to room before tea”).

I bought the least expensive of DNS a year ago after giving up on speech to text software a few years ago. And was very pleasently surprised with new program. A bigger concern to me would be the quality of the voice recorders output. To really get good results with DNS I bought a GOOD Plantronics headset.

]]> By: Tom http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2007/10/17/voice-recorders-for-dragon-naturallyspeaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1419 Tom Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:58:33 +0000 http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2007/10/17/voice-recorders-for-dragon-naturallyspeaking/#comment-1419 Just a reminder that Dragon and other dictation software has to be "trained" to one voice to work well as a transcriber. It does not work well to transcribe lectures from a speaker who hasn't trained your software. Nor, as a professor, would I recommend straight transcription. Take notes in class, and then listen again to the lecture and fill in gaps in notes. This is more efficient than trying to take dictation, no matter its form. Having a bunch of files with verbatim lectures will not promote learning. Just a reminder that Dragon and other dictation software has to be “trained” to one voice to work well as a transcriber. It does not work well to transcribe lectures from a speaker who hasn’t trained your software. Nor, as a professor, would I recommend straight transcription. Take notes in class, and then listen again to the lecture and fill in gaps in notes. This is more efficient than trying to take dictation, no matter its form. Having a bunch of files with verbatim lectures will not promote learning.

]]> By: Al http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2007/10/17/voice-recorders-for-dragon-naturallyspeaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1351 Al Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:48:42 +0000 http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2007/10/17/voice-recorders-for-dragon-naturallyspeaking/#comment-1351 My wife is in nursing school and looking for a device or program that would allow her to record her class then come home and down load the info to the computer and be able to print out the lecture points she needs My wife is in nursing school and looking for a device or program that would allow her to record her class then come home and down load the info to the computer and be able to print out the lecture points she needs

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