+ Talk, and Your Software Does the Typing: Dragon Version 10

other topics: click a "category" or use search box David Pogue has just reviewed the newest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software in the NY Times business section. This software is great for anyone who can't type. For students with grave difficulties with writing and spelling, it might be a godsend. NatSpeak's principal mission is to type out whatever you say into any Windows program. With version 10 its maker, Nuance, claims to have eked out yet another 20 percent accuracy improvement. In the early days of speech recognition the user had to read a 45-minute sample script to train the program to recognize your voice. Today, you can skip the training altogether. How well does it work? Pogue read a thousand words of "Freakonomics" into the mike and the accuracy tally was 99.3 percent. (It did render... [read full story]