In our first day’s use accuracy was roughly 97 per cent (we were finding approximately three incorrect words per 100 words), but as NaturallySpeaking is continually learning your voice pattern and even tonal fluctuations within 48 hours it was making less than one mistake every 200-300 words. Nuance quotes a 99 per cent accuracy rate much as it did in v11.5 (largely because 100% is impossible) yet we found that ultimately to be a conservative number. While a point iteration doesn’t sound like much v11.5 made great strides with its accuracy, yet v12 manages to improve upon them further. Happily that is how it plays out in practice too. At least that’s the theory… Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Performance The counterpoint is the setup is both a tutorial and should be far more accurate than just trying to adapt to the generic tones of your nationality.
Of course it is worth pointing out that smartphone voice recognition has no setup process whatsoever which may make some impatient. The training process and additional training exercises can be accessed at any time.
In all it took about 15 minutes and even new users would feel confident about using punctuation, switching between programs, composing emails and performing web searches in this time.
A nice tweak Nuance has made from v11.5 is that the setup process now takes even more care in teaching you key commands and usage scenarios while it learns your voice so it is well worth doing.
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Voice recognition software has a reputation for infuriating, lengthy setup routines and while Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 doesn’t drop them completely the process is quick and – most importantly – educational. Perhaps most useful of all, however, was v11.5’s integration with Dragon smartphone apps which allow dictation via your phone’s microphone letting you ditch a headset completely. These features build on existing core features such as social network integration (“Post to Facebook…” / “Post to Twitter…”), web search and opening and closing of programs.
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In addition is full Gmail and support, correction options respond to more naturalistic language as well as more natural text-to-speech reading of your work by Dragon which allows you to review without returning to the screen. What causes these proclamations are claims of a 20 per cent improvement in out of the box speech recognition accuracy, faster performance and new technology which looks to learn your preferences as you use the software – for example how you format words, phrases and numbers. Somewhat predictably ‘Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12’ is the successor to the excellent NaturallySpeaking 11.5 and somewhat predictably Nuance is calling it the “fastest, most accurate and easy-to-use version of Dragon yet”. Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Features Amongst all of this, speaking to our PCs has fallen somewhat by the wayside, but the company providing the speech recognition technology behind Siri wants us to try again. Screens are meant to be touched, games consoles are designed for us to wave our limbs in front of them and Google and Apple are desperate for us to talk to our phones.
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