Re: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
- From: "Christine Menges" <c.menges@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:52:48 -0700
The professional version also has more commands for using Microsoft excel. I
don't use Jsay I had my daughter train the program which consisted of reading
passages from the screen for five minutes. I don't have a braille display so
couldn't read it fluently enough using jaws. I have had excellent luck and in
my opinion it isn't worth spending a big chunk of change on Jsay unless you
want to do something really special with it.
I bought a microphone with a mechanical turn off switch that way I don't
fight with it. I don't work outside my home now since I have four kids so I'm
giving you prospective for personal use not professional use. I can say that I
was amazed at the accuracy of dragon naturally speaking. You can even train it
to type certain things when you speak a given word I use a Microsoft spell
checker to check the work so I have not had access to the dns spell checker.
Then when I get a set of eyes for a minute I keep a list of common mistakes to
have them "teach" dns. I've had to do this very infrequently. Of course, I
have to wait until the kids are occupied so I can dictate. (grin)
Christine
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From: Jeffrey Schwartz
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 4:32 PM
Subject: RE: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
It helps a great deal. Thanks
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chris Jenkins
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 3:56 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
Hello Jeff.
Just for clarification there are Dragon NaturallySpeaking standard, Dragon
NaturallySpeaking preferred, and dragon naturally speaking professional
versions. With the professional version having several different versions for
different occupations such as legal addition which would be for lawyers and
medical edition for doctors. If you have plans to purchase J-Say in the future
I would go ahead and get Dragon NaturallySpeaking professional now. The main
difference between Dragon NaturallySpeaking preferred and Dragon
NaturallySpeaking professional is Dragon NaturallySpeaking professional allows
you or a third party to write your own Dragon commands.
J-Say only supports Dragon NaturallySpeaking professional and higher.
I hope this helps.
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jeffrey Schwartz
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 3:29 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
Chris,
Thanks for this thought provoking input. I'm going to have a heck of a time
avoiding the ums and ahs. It takes me about three times to get my outgoing
message on the answering machine because I can't seem to put three sentences
together without using these nervous little mannerisms of speech. A number of
you have referred to Dragon Naturally Speaking. I've been advised to pick
Professionally Speaking. What are your thoughts on that one?
Thanks again,
Jeff
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chris Jenkins
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 2:27 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
Hello Jeff.
Just a few of the things that you will have to get used to while dictating or
as follows. The biggest thing is keeping control of the microphone meaning
making sure that the microphone is asleep when you are not using it for example
when someone comes into your office or cubicle and wants to carry on a
conversation with you. I would say the next biggest thing is to learn how to
talk without using filler words such as o m, or and. If you are going to be
using speech recognition software while on the phone with customers you will
have a whole other set of problems to overcome. For example where now you can
type and speak to the customer at the same time of course you will not be able
to speak to dragon naturally speaking and the customer at the same time. You
should at least take all this into consideration before making an investment
into speech recognition software.
I will say for me Dragon naturally speaking along with J--Say is the best
purchase I ever made.
I hope this helps.
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jeffrey Schwartz
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 1:48 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
Thanks Pat,
If you didn't have to spend a great deal of time teaching it to recognize
your voice, where does the learning curve come in? This is for work where I
have XP. Do you think that it would be significantly different from Vista with
DNS?
Jeff
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Pat L
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:36 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
Jeffrey,
I have experimented with DNS 10 and have been very favorably impressed. The
speech recognition out of the box without training was remarkably good. I was
able to dictate a few test e-mails with surprisingly good results. However,
there is a steep learning curve to master this feature rich program. The
program is cheap - I was able to buy it from Nuance on a promotion for around
$50. If you are willing to make the investment and devote time to the learning
process, it might work for you. As of now, I can't afford the time to use it
consistently, but that may not be true for you.
HTH,
Pat
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Russell Solowoniuk
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:06 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
Hi Jeffrey,
I've never used DNS with Jaws, but I did have some success with the built in
speech recognition in Windows Vista, using System Access.
HTH
Russell
From: Jeffrey Schwartz
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 3:41 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
I'm in my early sixties and between contact sports when young and sighted and
decades of copious typing, I fear that I have developed arthritis in my hands.
I'd like to use Dragon. The party line from FS is that one can only do it with
Dragon Professional and the T and T consultancy intermediate program. I
believe that I have heard one or two on this list say that they use Dragon
Naturally Speaking directly with jaws. I'd be grateful for any feedback on
this issue
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