I don't use it but have looked at it for the iPad, works ok if you remember to speak in an american accent.

aus301 said...

I don't use it but have looked at it for the iPad, works ok if you remember to speak in an american accent.

Be careful using an American accent.
You could find yourself talking much louder and gibbering on for hours about nothing usefull.

Similar to PT Woody. I did a project years ago to evaluate Dragon Dictate for a large organisation where people spent heaps of time typing up notes when they really needed to be out saving lives and stuff.

It works extremely well at what it does. Problem is, instead of typos you get talkos. You say something and it interprets it incorrectly. You have to proof read everything and correct the errors and teach it what you meant to say.

The software learns how you talk but the problem still happens every time you say a new word or say siomething in an odd way.

It was also very susceptible to background noise and microphone quality.

PTWoody said...

I bought Dragon software years ago to transcribe interviews but it was unsatisfactory. You need to train the software to the nuances of your voice - it's not exactly user friendly. I don't think it would be the way to go for a screenplay. You can't really write screenplays through stream of consciousness. You need to revise and rewrite pretty much every sentence.

I've had a handful of abortive attempts to use different versions of it over a few years, my issue has been peoples' names (for referencing) and very specific technical terms that weren't/aren't in any of its dictionaries. Takes me longer to train it than to type them, then there's the proofreading...it hasn't ever saved me any time.

G'day breezes
I decided to get my hands on the Dragon dictate speech recognition for Mac. One word this Dragon Dictate is the ants pants. So much easier than typing instead of typing say 50 words a minute I can now type 300 words a minute talking you just have to speak clearly at a steady pace. Thanks for your feedback breezes but I'm so stoked I purchased Dragon Dictate.
DW