Dragon NaturallySpeaking goes double-digit

by Stephen Withers

Friday, 08 August 2008

Page 1 of 2 ! Speech recognition program Dragon NaturallySpeaking has reached version 10. Nuance claims the new version is nearly twice as fast as its predecessor, and provides up to 99 percent recognition accuracy. New features include voice shortcuts, which allow one voice command to initiate a multi-step process. According to company officials, saying "Search the Web for Madonna concert schedule" will open the default web browser and direct the enquiry to the default search engine. Specific search engines and sites such as Wikipedia and YouTube can be specified by including their name in the query. Voice formatting with commands such as "Bold James Brown" and "make that bigger" are said to make it quicker than ever to format text. NaturallySpeaking is designed to work with popular applications including Word, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Firefox and various instant messaging clients such as AIM. A web-based test of 35,000 people carried out by Nuance found an average typing speed of 35 words per minute and 58 percent accuracy. The company claims NaturallySpeaking can deliver up to 160 words per minute with 99 percent accuracy and no misspellings. (It's not clear whether the company regards the mistaken use of a homonym as a spelling mistake.) "Speech technology has reached a critical turning point where it is now fundamentally changing the way that we interact with the world around us," said Bob Anderson, APAC director of Nuance's mobile and consumer division. And there's a bonus with some editions of NaturallySpeaking 10, so please turn to page 2. << First page <   1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

< Next story in category		Previous story in the category >

Visitors last 30 days Suscribers

904,266 13,751