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"Naturally Speaking" speach recognition software
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...did you miss the hall of fame forums, and the thread(s) that led to their creation?
There were a lot of record setting resurrections there...
JoshLoring
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Voice recognition software is great. You may be interested in knowing that this post is being typed by Siri, my little iPhone 4s assistant. Why type when I can simply tell it what to type for me?
Colin
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Ya, as a person who never learned to type in the traditional/formal way, I find it pretty cool.
I had a funny conversation yesterday with the "Sales" guy at Dragon (Nuance).
Me: Hi, I have the old Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) 10 and I just downloaded the free patch to get it to run on Win7, but there are still some issues, so could you please tell me what the price is as a registered user to get the new v11 for Win7?
Sales: It is $99.00 for the Basic version, and $149.99 for the Premium version. But we have a special on right now for $74.99 and $99.99
Me: Oh, what's the difference between the two?
Sales: The Basic version only works on MS Word, and the Premium works on pretty much everything.
Me: Hmmm, that's interesting, because my old Basic version works on everything, so if I pay for an upgrade to the new v11 Basic, I'll lose all that, which forces me to pay a hundred dollars for essentially what I have now, albeit a newer version.
silence
Me: Hello?
Sales: Ummm, yes.
I had a funny conversation yesterday with the "Sales" guy at Dragon (Nuance).
Me: Hi, I have the old Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) 10 and I just downloaded the free patch to get it to run on Win7, but there are still some issues, so could you please tell me what the price is as a registered user to get the new v11 for Win7?
Sales: It is $99.00 for the Basic version, and $149.99 for the Premium version. But we have a special on right now for $74.99 and $99.99
Me: Oh, what's the difference between the two?
Sales: The Basic version only works on MS Word, and the Premium works on pretty much everything.
Me: Hmmm, that's interesting, because my old Basic version works on everything, so if I pay for an upgrade to the new v11 Basic, I'll lose all that, which forces me to pay a hundred dollars for essentially what I have now, albeit a newer version.
silence
Me: Hello?
Sales: Ummm, yes.
Fatboy
New Member
Is it working?
Colin
New Member
Yes, but........
DNS builds and refers to a "User Profile" (which is based upon the way you speak), and it uses this in order to work properly for you. Without this profile, it doesn't work very well, making all kinds of mistakes. This is where there's a glitch in the free "patch" version (v10.1 over v10 for XP) for Win7. If you have the "User Account Control" setting (UAC) at anything above the bottom (lowest) setting, DNS will not be able to open your user profile, and therefore will not work properly.
I've since learned that having your UAC setting in Win7 at the bottom is really not a problem, but if you feel that you don't like having it set there, and would prefer to have it set at one of the other (3) higher settings, then there is a work-around that must be done.
If you want or need to know the gory details of this work-around, let me know and I will take the time to describe it.