Friday, October 14, 2011

review Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software


What's fitting that my first post after a long hiatus will be a review of what is going to, hopefully, allow me to begin posting on a fairly regular basis. I'm writing this post with a program called Dragon naturally speaking speech recognition software. It was the Gold box deal of the day on Amazon.com at $49.99. After having seen it advertised and in the Woodfield Mall for $75 and up, I thought that the Amazon price was a steal so I went ahead and purchased it. I installed the software today and after about 15 min. of tutorial, in which I had to read approximately 15 min. worth of text, the program was up and running. From what I can tell thus far, the program performs as advertised. It is simple, easy-to-use and relatively error free. So, having only about an hours worth of practice with program thus far I would give it 4 1/2 out of five stars. You will have to be the judge of whether or not the program is worth it as I post more frequently and as you get the chance to read what Dragon has translated of my speech to this block.