What’s new in Dragon NaturallySpeaking®
Version 10.1
VISTA 64-bit compatible!
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred 10.x gives small business
users and PC enthusiasts the power to create documents, reports,
e-mails and more—all by speaking! Fast, easy and amazingly
accurate, it’s over three times faster than typing. Just
use your voice to dictate and edit in Microsoft® Word and
Excel®, Corel® WordPerfect®, and virtually all Windows®-based
applications. You can even dictate into a handheld device when
you’re away from your PC, or use a Bluetooth microphone!
It’s never been easier to use—no script reading required,
so you can get started right away!
Version 10.x works in 2000 (SP4) and Windows XP (SP2) - Either Home and Pro and VISTA. Create Reports, Spreadsheets and Business Letters - at Up to 160 Words-Per-Minute. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred 10.x offers home and small office users powerful features to maximize their productivity. After completing about 15 minutes of training, (or none if you prefer) you can talk to your computer and watch your words instantly appear in virtually any Windows® based application, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer and Corel WordPerfect, although training definately helps in accuracy. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.x is the most accurate Dragon NaturallySpeaking ever, and the easiest to use.With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred/Professional v10.x, you can launch programs, create documents and reports, and manage your desktop--all by voice! Use Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.x to increase productivity even when you're on-the-go! Simply dictate into a certified Pocket PC or handheld digital recorder, and then automatically transcribe your dictated speech when you synch with your PC. Correcting your documents is easier than ever with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.x. Use RealSpeak Proofing to have your documents read back to you in the most natural sounding synthesized voice available, or simply have your own recorded dictation played back for you.Dragon NaturallySpeaking represents a significant step forward in the accuracy, speed, and ease-of-use of speech recognition technology. Buy your copy and increase your productivity today!
New Features for DNS V10:
Highlights:
What’s NEW in V10 of Dragon Naturally Speaking.
What's New in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10
More Speed. More Accuracy. More Features.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 is here, and the world’s best-selling
speech recognition system just keeps getting better. Dragon NaturallySpeaking
is faster and more accurate than ever, delivering up to 20% more
accurate results than Version 9. Your transcribed words now appear
on the screen in half the time it took in the past. With new Dragon
Voice Shortcuts, you can search the Web for information, products,
news and more with a single voice command. Updated graphical icons
for the DragonBar are intuitive and easy to see. New Quick Voice
Formatting makes it easier to format, delete, and copy words and
passages with a single command.
Four NEW Editions
of V10: Product Matrix
Preferred v10 - 64-bit compatible
Professional - v10 64-bit compatible
Legal v10
Professional Medical Suite v9
(NOTE): The Medical Soultions Suite with EMR Support is v9. The
Non-EMR Support version is Professional Edition v10 with 14 pre-configured
Trigram Medical Vocabularies
More Accurate Than Ever
Unrivaled desktop speech recognition accuracy; up to 20% more
accurate than Version 9
Faster Than Ever
Significant improvement of response time; more than 50% reduction
in the time it takes for words to appear
Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Web Search
Dragon Voice Shortcuts make searching the Web faster and easier.
Just say commands containing your desired search words, such as
“Search the Web for financial management resources”
or “Search maps for Italian restaurants in Burlington 01803,”
and Dragon 10 will use the default search engine and Web browser
to enter your dictated term(s) in the search field and return
the results. Thanks to Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky”
search, you can also get the top-ranked site directly, by saying,
“Find a site about motorcycles.” You may also search
specific sites directly for videos, images, news, articles and
products using commands such as “Search Wikipedia for George
Washington Carver,” or “Search eBay for Bluetooth headsets.”
Sites supported by Dragon Voice Shortcuts include Google, Yahoo,
eBay, Wikipedia, YouTube, about.com, and more. See sample commands.
(See the feature highlight. )
Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Desktop Search
Dragon Voice Shortcuts collapse common multi-step tasks into direct
voice commands. Now you can search your computer — faster
than ever
Dragon 10 introduces commands to search your computer as directly
as the Web, by dictating the word(s) to find in documents, emails
and Web-browsing history. For example, you can say, “Search
computer for launch plans” and Dragon will complete the search
using Google Desktop or Windows Vista desktop search. In addition,
commands such as “Find an email about the Robinson report”
directly open the top email containing the dictated keywords.
Searching your computer has never been faster — or easier.
Quick Voice Formatting (“Delete | Copy | Bold | Underline
| Italicize ” commands)
New direct commands for formatting, deleting, and copying words
and passages
Rather than selecting the relevant word(s) or passage and commanding
what to do with that text (e.g., “Select very, [pause] Bold
that”), you can now directly name the desired text with the
desired action in a single voice command, such as “Bold very.”
Just like in the familiar “Select ” commands, you can
even designate a whole passage by quoting its first and last word(s).
(See the feature highlight. )
New UI Look and Feel
Updated icons are intuitive and easy to see
Dragon 10 introduces new graphical icons to enhance the DragonBar
user interface, including a larger microphone icon, making the
product easier to use.
Improved Help System and Tutorials
Includes enhanced Sample Commands window and interactive HTML
tutorial with a completely new look and feel
Dragon 10 offers an enhanced Sample Commands window and interactive
tutorial with a completely new look and feel. The new Web and
Flash-based system offers improved navigation and content —
comprehensive resources are just a command away! In addition,
Dragon 10 also introduces a new mechanism to enable the creation
of customizable help screens for end-users to be reminded of their
favorite commands. (See the feature highlight. )
Improved Natural Commands for Mozilla Firefox
Improved Web browser experience is now available for Firefox
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 makes it easier than ever to use speech
recognition with Mozilla Firefox, the award-winning Web browser
used by tens of millions of people worldwide: you can now benefit
from Natural Language commands, and the ability to activate a
hyperlink by just saying part of its name.
More Flexible Enrollment for younger speakers and users with certain
speech challenges
Self-paced reading is available for speakers who have difficulty
with the existing interactive text passages
Reading an acoustic training text efficiently teaches one’s
voice to the software, and Dragon 10 offers an easier way to do
it: print or view the entire text and record it at your own pace—without
needing to satisfy the validation done by the software in the
original prompt screens. By making it easier to train the product
to one’s voice,
Dragon 10 improves the experience for younger users and users
with certain speech challenges.
Regional Accent Support
Significant increase in accuracy for accented speakers by using
more advanced adaptation techniques and accent-specific models.
Following a significant data collection effort and research, Dragon
10 incorporates new acoustic models for better coverage of non-native
and regional accents. Together with more powerful adaptation techniques,
this will help everyone get better recognition accuracy —
from the very first use.
Option to Disable Microsoft Text Services (CTFMon)
Easily turn off Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (CTFMon)
to eliminate potential conflicts with Dragon
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 reduces to a simple checkbox the multi-step
process of disabling alternative services that may cause conflicts,
such as advanced technical services on Windows XP or handwriting
features on tablet PCs.
Better control of commands vs. dictation on the Web
Require “Click” for hyperlinks and disable Web commands
separately from dictation support
Dragon 10 helps ensure a comfortable experience on the Web, addressing
the concern that words you mean to dictate may be interpreted
as a command, even if said in isolation. Dragon 10 now provides
finer options for optimal comfort on the Web whether you intend
dictation or action: one can disable HTML commands and also require
saying “Click” for hyperlinks separately, without disabling
dictation support. In addition, Dragon 10 replaces some existing
single-word HTML commands with multiple-word equivalents, to avoid
confusion with those single words meant as dictation:
Auto Configuration for Optimal Performance Based on System Profile
Latency configuration on “slow” machines and per-application
disabling of Natural Language commands. Installation automatically
detects PC’s resources and adjusts options for optimal speed.
During installation, Dragon 10 automatically analyzes your PC’s
resources and changes default settings as needed to increase speed;
this may include moving the Speed vs. Accuracy slider towards
speed and disabling the Natural Language commands in some applications.
The users can later change these options if they wish. In addition,
DNS10 gives finer control over the support for Natural Language
commands, which means users can gain speed if they only use Natural
Language commands in some applications. One can disable these
large sets of flexible command wordings separately for Microsoft
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Corel WordPerfect.
Formatting and Word Properties Interface Enhancements
New Formatting dialog and Word Properties let you control the
written forms more finely than ever, including alternate forms,
spacing and capitalization before and after each item.
Dragon 10 gives easier and finer control over the form, spacing
and capitalization of items written in various contexts (e.g.,
inserting a space before or after, capitalizing the next word,
or using alternate forms like “Fig.” instead of “figure”
before numerals.) For instance, if you want all numbers between
zero and ten to be written as numerals, you can now simply set
this with just one check on the Formatting dialog.
Embedded Data Collection Tool
Data Collection engine embedded in the product
A New User Wizard screen invites users to participate in a program
designed to collect data to improve the overall accuracy of Dragon
NaturallySpeaking. The option is off by default.
More Accurate Than Ever
Unrivaled desktop speech recognition accuracy; up to 20% more
accurate than Version 9
Faster Than Ever
Significant improvement of response time; more than 50% reduction
in the time it takes for words to appear on the screen