Comments on: Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 Advertising Campaign Goes on TV

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:40:26 +0000

Hi Mary, No Problem.

I do not know if it can work with Linux or not, but looking at the fact sheets, I do not believe that it can.

Thanks, Brett (aka admin)

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:11:13 +0000

Thanks for your help. This is for my daughter for Christmas. I will let her try it to see just how it works for her. I like that idea that we train it for specific words. It might even help her with her pronunciation.
Is is able to work with Linux?
I hope this works as good as it sounds.

thanks for your help

By: admin

admin — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:05:17 +0000

Hi Mary,
I have not tested the software with a situation like you hint at. I do know that a great deal of effort is going into providing copies of this software and laptops to injured soldiers returning from war. I believe some of those injuries have impact on speech, but have not heard specific stories describing how well the software performs with those situations.

There are 2 areas where the software probably has some capability to deal with speech that is less than perfect.

1. You can train the software for specific words. So if for example a person were to regularly pronounce a word in a way that fails to generate the desired outcome, you could train the software to respond as expected word by word.

2. You can run an evaluation program (free download after the purchase of version 9) from Nuance. The Nuance team can then generate a personal profile to run on your computer. The evaluation takes several weeks worth of use on the program before enough data points can be gathered up.

All that said, I suspect that the only way you will find out if it really works is to try it. I am not sure if there is a way that I might recreate speech problems to give you a better understanding. If you would like to comment and leave me a description of the issue, I can attempt to emulate it (with the sincere goal that my emulation would not cause offense). Alternatively, if you feel more comfortable, you can email me a description of the speech problem. try hotline at softduit dot com

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:35:18 +0000

I had purchased a version of DNS about 10 years ago and was not impressed. Now I am checking out the version 9 software. How does this program will work with someone that has problems with their speech? Any help you can give me with this would be appreciated.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:34:13 +0000

Hi Greg,

I have not experienced that issue with DNS9, but I have typically capped most of my documents (for natural reasons) at no more than 40-50 pages.

That said, there is a setting that can be modified that dictates how much memory is used to record the wav version of your voice when you write a document. This recording can then be used to playback your speech when you edit and other tasks.

If your memory setting is used up during a session, then I have seen a couple odd things happen but they are not quite as detrimental as what you described with DNS8 and they can be avoided if you set your memory high enough or you do not save the wav file for play back.

By: greg

greg — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:17:25 +0000

Hello there:
I have dragon naturally speaking preferred 8 and I have experienced one thing this is a rather significant problem. When I write something over 100 pages, the results start to deteriorate untill, finally, the program freezes up. Have you experienced this?
I actually talked to tech support about this a while ago and they seemed to be aware of the problem and didnt offer a solution at that time.
I am wondering if it has been resolved in preferred 9