Dragon Naturally Speaking Premium Review

What makes Dragon Naturally Speaking Premium great voice recognition software?

This software does a great job at creating a profile for the user in a bid to make the program a lot more accurate. This is because the manufacturer understands that this is the most important step in the use of voice recognition technology.  Without the profiling, the software will not be able to fully adapt to your voice or show a proper understanding of what you say to it. It is only fitting that as our best voice to text software, it should excel in this regard.

When you start the software, you will have to read some common texts which will be assimilated by the software in a bid to use the information to properly identify your words as you dictate and give commands to it.  The sample text not only covers common words but also jargon or uncommon words. The software doesn’t stop here though. The voice training module is elaborate and if you want to get the best out of your software, it is important that you go through the entire module. This way you can be sure that the software will make fewer errors while listening to you as you type. The voice training feature is what makes it one of the best transcription software around.  

The Dragon Naturally Speaking Premium software comes with the most versatile command system you will ever see on any speech to software. It not only allows you to use the Windows menu system properly, it syncs properly with all the programs on your computer effortlessly.

As it should be for the best speech recognition software, you can change settings in programs, navigate the start menu, use a web browser as well as open and close programs. It works seamlessly on all websites allowing you to for instance, check your sent items, contacts or log out while viewing your mail box. It figures out what you want to do by the words that are associated with each button or link. However, the software has problems when it comes to navigating Flash-heavy websites.  When you give a command and the software figures out that there are more than one options, it uses a numbering system for the possible responses. You can then say the number that corresponds to what you have in mind.  This makes it easy to navigate complex sites without difficulties.

Our best speech to text software doesn’t disappoint in dictation either. Using the software, you don’t have to tone down on the speed of talking or have to enunciate more than your normal conversation speed.  Unlike other software, slowing down your commands and talking reduces the effectiveness of this software.  However, you have to emphasize connecting words like “the” and “to” as the software misses them at intervals while maintaining your normal conversational tone.

While using this software, you don’t need to worry about getting typed documents to be grammatically correct as it handles punctuations nicely and accurately. The standard punctuations like quotation mark, question mark, comma and full stops are well covered so you won’t have anything to worry about if they are all you ever use.

Accuracy of the software is not 100% but it is indeed very close. In many cases, you won’t need to edit the completed texts after dictation

The software manufacturer Nuance Communications, Inc. has made available, a good number of avenues to go to if you need help with anything. The FAQ section on the webpage is very comprehensive and you can count on the customer service reps to offer you the right solution when you contact them on phone or via email.

Why choose Dragon Naturally Speaking Premium as your speech recognition software?

• Impeccable dictation handling
• Very simple navigation commands
• Fast response time
• Detailed voice training
• High level of accuracy
• Seamless integration into windows components

System Requirements

• CPU: 1 GHz Intel Pentium or equivalent AMD processor, or 1.66 GHz Intel Atom processor
• Processor Cache: 512 KB
• Memory (RAM): 1 GB for Windows XP and Windows Vista, 2GB for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Free hard disk space: 2.5 GB (2.8 GB for localized non-English versions)
• Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows Vista SP1 and SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows XP SP2 and SP3 (32-bit only), Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 
• Sound card capable of supporting 22 kHz 16-bit recording