
Then a month of accuracy slowly creeping up as I find the uncommon errors and solve them.Īs to whether to buy version 15, I think it’s more about what features you need and whether you are prepared to pay more for the professional versions if you aren’t going to use those features. Another week of reasonably frequent corrections resolving my most common errors will get me to 90-ish% (which I find workable, given that I go back and edit heavily anyway as a fiction author). About two days of very stopping and starting dictation (because of all the corrections) and long accuracy tunings will get me to about 70%.

To do that, however, requires a good microphone (weirdly, the apple earbuds microphone is the best I’ve used it’s what got me the 99.99% accuracy), the time to train it and (in my opinion) different dictation profiles for different environments and microphones.īecause I have different profiles, I know how long it takes me to get to that level of accuracy given my heavy (6ish hours a day) use. Personally, I get 99.99% accuracy with Dragon 13 Premium. They also have a price that reflects the fact they’re intended to be used as a professional tool. The versions of the 15 group are: professional individual, professional legal, professional group and medical practice.Īll the versions in the 15 group are professional level ones and have three years more development to the speach engine so, while I haven’t used them, I’m sure they’re more advanced. It is very similar to Nuance, but since both programs are designed for.

Unlike speech to text translators, Dragon automatically recognizes the meaning of the words while reading them, thus eliminating the need for you to do so yourself. The versions of the software on the 13 group are: home, premium, professional, legal and medical. Dragon Naturally Speaking is a new dictation software that works by reading text out loud for you. The thing to understand about Dragon is that the version number refers more to a group of versions that are released close enough together that the speach engine is comparable.
