New Version Released 10.1 – Dragon NaturallySpeaking – Preferred & Standard
March 30th, 2009 | by Dave |Nuance have just announced a new major release for its Windows based voice recognition software, Dragon NatutrallySpeaking. Currently shipping as version 10.0 an upgrade is now available to take Dragon upto version 10.1, this is a free update for current version 10.0 licence holders.
The upgrade to version 10.1 is currently only available for Dragon NaturallySpeaking Standard and Preferred versions. The update for Professional users is planned for Early April 2009.
Be warned people, the upgrade is a monster download. Weighing in at 1.37Gb for Preferred users and 1.22Gb for Standard. So you might want to go grab a three course meal out somewhere nice while it is downloading.
The big news in this release is that Dragon NaturallySpeaking v10.1 supports 64bit Windows Vista system.
Other inclusions in this release add support for IE8 and Firefox 3. Also included is enhanced documentation, including a “Commands Quick Reference” sheet, updates to the install guide and the users guide as well as more updates to the help files and tutorials.
This upgrade is not to be confused with the Service Pack SP1 out earlier this year, which primarily focused on documentation updates and bug fixes.
The upgrade can be downloaded from here:
http://www.nuance.com/vista/naturallyspeaking/Dragon10.1/
You will need you licence key ready, if you can find it just run up Dragon and click on Help, your licence key is displayed in the splash screen.
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By A.Ford on May 23, 2009
Dragon Naturally Speaking is the most frustrating, unreliable (and expensive) piece of software ever written, and Nuance are the most unhelpful company I’ve ever had the displeasure of dealing with.
By Dave on May 25, 2009
Hello Astrid
Sorry to hear of your bad experience with Dragon. Your problems could have been caused by a number of factors, most commonly an incompatible or poor quality sound card, this supplies poor quality audio into Dragon and can lead to poor performance. Because of this, most resellers recommend and offer a high quality noise cancelling headset with Dragon, we bundle the Plantronics DSP-400 in our bundle. The noise cancelling USB headset bypasses the onboard sound card and feeds clear audio into Dragon giving vastly improved performance and accuracy.
You can check the compatibility of your soundcard on the Nuance hardware compatibilty website: http://support.nuance.com/compatibility/default.asp
Select Dragon NaturallySpeaking and then Soundcards / Integrated Audio for the list of compatible soundcards.
I have had to call the Nuance support line a couple of times and yes I agree at times it can be a trying experience but on the whole the overseas consultants have been able to help with my questions.
I would be happy to talk with you to see if I can help improve your experience with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
Dave
Dictate Australia
By annie althoff on Jun 17, 2009
my supervisor at work purchased the dragon naturally speaking with a philips 660 voice tracer to accommodate my physical limitations. i have worked with the system now two weeks and, although i do pretty well with manuals, i haven’t been able to use the Philips voice recorder 660 at all and am more than frustrated with the whole system. are there any tutorials available? thank you …. annie
By Dave on Sep 14, 2009
Hello Annie
The Philips 660 is a simple to use digital voice recorder, I would be more than happy to talk you through the basic functions of setting the correct recording mode, recording audio and audio transfer from the recorder to your PC. I have just reviewed the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Digital Voice Recorder Edition and that information can be found in my blog.
Please email us at sales@dictate.com.au and we can contact you in regard a walk through of the voice recorder.
Thanks
Dave
Dictate Australia
By Yvette Burtley on Feb 6, 2010
Hi Dave,
This question is in response to your You Tube video “Olympus WS-210S with Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred version 10.”
I purchased Dragon Naturally Speaking solely to use the “Transcribe Recording” feature of the software. However, the program garbles the audio when it’s transcribing multiple speakers.
Will the program work with recordings of different people’s voices – such as for lectures of different professors that you record? Does the program have to become adjusted to each new speaker? How long does the program take to become acclimated to the tone and inflections of new speakers if there are multiple speakers in one recording? I’ve been training the program to become adjusted to new words using the training feature, but that doesn’t seem to be working.
If you have any helpful advice about how to correct this problem, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Yvette Burtley
By Dave on Feb 7, 2010
Thanks Yvette
Dragon NaturallySpeaking can only be used to transcribe single speaker audio, it can not transcribe multiple voices from interviews, focus groups or meetings. You would have noticed with your Dragon that you would have had to create a profile and then train that profile to your voice. Dragon uses this profile to analyse audio and as it is trained to your voice and your voice only, introducing additional voices will serve to both ruin the profile training you have already done and produce poor quality transcription.
Voice recognition software has come along way in recent years and the accuracy that can be achieved from voice recognition software is very high. Voice recognition for multiple speakers is still some years away I believe, your only options are to transcribe your audio yourself using a transcription kit (headset, transcription software, foot pedal) or outsource your transcription to a company like our sister company The Transcription People who have a team of experienced transcription typists who can transcribe your audio for you.
I hope that helps.
Dave
Dictate