Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Dragon NaturallySpeaking supports Microsoft's desktop and mobile software platforms and boasts "total accuracy levels" of up to 99 percent. Additionally, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 8 enables Pocket PCs to be used for mobile dictation, according to the company.

ScanSoft claims Version 8 achieved an accuracy increase of more than 25 percent, can convert speech into text on a PC at up to 160 words per minute, and allows users to control a PC completely by voice.

The DevSource.com article

The first point Mueller makes is that voice recognition is not the same thing as artificial intelligence. We're still a long way from the computer on Star Trek's Star Ship Enterprise, he points out. Nevertheless, voice recognition can be useful for applications such as forms data entry, simple dictation, and instant messaging -- cases where the vocabulary is limited, and "jargon" is kept to a minimum.

Mueller summarizes both the pros and cons of NaturallySpeaking 8. In general, the package lives up to the favorable reviews it has received. On the minus side, integrating NaturallySpeaking with managed code turns out to be a major task.

Read the full DevSource.com article here.

Further information on Dragon NaturallySpeaking is available from the ScanSoft's website.

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