Philips Dragon NaturallySpeaking DVR Digital Voice Recorder Edition

New from Philips and Nuance is the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Digital Voice Recorder Edition, a bundle containing a cut down version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 10 and a Philips Digital Voice Tracer 660 digital voice recorder.

The is a very cheap entry into the voice recognition world and well worth a look, especially if you are someone who is used to recording dictation into a voice recorder for a secretary or transcriptionist to transcribe.

The Dragon software, although using the latest speech recognition technology on the Dragon voice recognition engine, is a cut down version in terms of features when compared to the basic Standard Edition or the more advanced Preferred Edition. Both of which come with a headset and mic and allow you to dictate directly to your PC. With the Voice Recorder Edition only dictation recorded on a digital voice recorder can be transcribed.

For the full review of Dragon NaturallySpeaking DVR Edition please visit our main blog site: http://idictate.com.au

Dragon NaturallySpeaking : Here is a tip for you - faster transcription

On some machines you may find that Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a little slow to dump out your spoken dictation into Microsoft Word. This could be caused by a few things, maybe an older PC, maybe lack of RAM etc.

One way to speed up your transcribed single speaker dictation a tip is to let Dragon transcribe into Notepad or Wordpad. The overhead of Word trying to spell check as you talk is then taken away giving you faster smoother transcription. When you are done just copy the text and dump it into Word and it will then happily spell check your document for you.

Handy hints from Dictate Australia - www.dictate.com.au

Australian Dragon NaturallySpeaking Users, Update Available - Standard & Preferred - Version 10.1

Nuance have issued an update to version 10 of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Standard and Preferred editions.

The update is a huge download, just over 1Gb, and now brings support for 64-bit Windows Vista operating systems as well as the usual bug fixes and enhancements.

The upgrade is available free of charge for existing DNS10 licence holders via:

http://www.nuance.com/vista/naturallyspeaking/Dragon10.1/

For the Professional version an upgrade will be available late April 2009.

Pop In For A Demo Of Dragon, MacSpeech or Olympus Digital Voice Recorders

Dictate Australia Pty Ltd recently moved into new offices in Erina on the New South Wales Central Coast, we share our offices with our sister company The Transcription People.


We are now in a position to demo the Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software, MacSpeech Dictate voice recognition software for Mac and some of the Olympus digital voice recorders like the WS-311M, DS-30 and the new DS-5000iD.

If you are on or near the Central Coast please send us an email and we can arrange a time for you to come in and see just how good voice recognition is or how easy the Olympus range of digital voice recorders are to use.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred - Transcription From An Olympus Digital Voice Recorder

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred has the ability to transcribe audio from a digital voice recorder, this is known as deferred transcription.

By simply loading an audio file into Dragon NaturallySpeaking it will automatically transcribe what it hears from the audio file. The video demonstration below illustrates this technique. The audio was recorded on an Olympus DS-4000 digital voice recorder.



Dragon can take audio in .dss, .wma and .mp3 format meaning the excellent WS series note takers, the DS-30/40/50 and the digital dictaphones DS-2300, DS-3300 and DS-4000 can all be used with Dragon.

The video was recorded using iShowU. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred version 9.5 was running on a Windows Vista virtual machine running on an iMac host. Dictate Australia uses VMWare Fusion.