All versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking run on personal computers. Nuance also produce an equivalent version for Apple computers (running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 or later) called Dragon Dictate. For more information and to purchase Dragon software, visit Windows Speech Recognition All Microsoft Windows computers now have a voice recognition programme called Speech Recognition. Although it does not boast as many features as Dragon NaturallySpeaking, it is free and easy to use with good recognition rates. To improve its performance, having set up your microphone, you can train Windows Speech Recognition to better understand your voice and spoken commands by creating a voice profile. You can then use voice commands to run applications, dictate and edit text within documents and emails, browse the web, fill out forms, interact with other elements of the operating system, and control your mouse cursor. The functionality of Windows Speech Recognition can be extended through a separate utility released by Microsoft that enables the creation and use of custom macros. Dictation on a Mac Apple Mac computers running OS X Mountain Lion, Mavericks or Yosemite also provide free built-in dictation software. This can be accessed through the and Speech’ panel within System Preferences. ‘Dictation Although it is a basic programme offering more limited voice control, it does allow you to dictate text anywhere you could type it by keyboard. In Mountain Lion, OS X dictation works by sending up to 30 second chunks of recorded speech to Apple’s servers for processing which is fine as long as – you have a stable and reliable broadband connection. In Mavericks and Yosemite, turning on Dictation’ enables continuous ‘Enhanced speech recognition and also allows offline processing. The most recent version of OS X, Yosemite, also introduced many new editing and formatting commands and the ability to create additional dictation commands yourself.
All versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking run on personal computers. Nuance also produce an equivalent version for Apple computers (running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 or later) called Dragon Dictate. For more information and to purchase Dragon software, visit Windows Speech Recognition All Microsoft Windows computers now have a voice recognition programme called Speech Recognition. Although it does not boast as many features as Dragon NaturallySpeaking, it is free and easy to use with good recognition rates. To improve its performance, having set up your microphone, you can train Windows Speech Recognition to better understand your voice and spoken commands by creating a voice profile. You can then use voice commands to run applications, dictate and edit text within documents and emails, browse the web, fill out forms, interact with other elements of the operating system, and control your mouse cursor. The functionality of Windows Speech Recognition can be extended through a separate utility released by Microsoft that enables the creation and use of custom macros. Dictation on a Mac Apple Mac computers running OS X Mountain Lion, Mavericks or Yosemite also provide free built-in dictation software. This can be accessed through the ‘Dictation and Speech’ panel within System Preferences. Although it is a basic programme offering more limited voice control, it does allow you to dictate text anywhere you could type it by keyboard. In Mountain Lion, OS X dictation works by sending up to 30 second chunks of recorded speech to Apple’s servers for processing – which is fine as long as you have a stable and reliable broadband connection. In Mavericks and Yosemite, turning on ‘Enhanced Dictation’ enables continuous speech recognition and also allows offline processing. The most recent version of OS X, Yosemite, also introduced many new editing and formatting commands and the ability to create additional dictation commands yourself.
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