![]() A plumber in Southampton isn't going to want a Teesside accent on his answerphone greeting. Despite being born and bred in the north east, I have trained hard to speak with a neutral accent to appeal to the greatest customer base as possible for my voice over work. I also do not know how successfully it works with regional British accents. It will allow you to dictate the filenames for documents can you save them in the save dialogue box, but it will not allow you to dictate into the search box of Windows Explorer to search for a file. It does not work in any web browser or any slightly odd software such as Macromedia Dreamweaver. This was strange because on other computers with the same software it worked without having to do this. Initially it did not dictate into Microsoft Word 2007 until I went into ‘Word Options’, then ‘Add-Ins’ to ‘allow’ it. Hey, they work absolutely fine - why change and end up paying a monthly fee to use software? I really don't understand that trend - I would switch to open source versions of software (Linux, Libre Office, etc) before I would ever pay a monthly fee. I also use old versions of software - Outlook 2007 and Office 2007 ('old' as in 11 years old as this article written in 2018). It sounds like the PROFESSIONAL edition of v13 does not have these installation problems which after reading a pattern of the reviews sound like they are mostly DVD disc quality related. I also don't know if any vociferous anti-virus software interferes with its installation. Negative reviews of the latest version (Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 HOME edition) suggest that it can be finicky to work if your computer specification is not sufficient, the supplied headset isn't that great, and it may not like Windows 10. Newer, updated editions of the software are available and version 10 is obviously no longer in publication.īefore I discuss microphones, for voice recognition software the very basics are that your computer should have as much RAM as possible (I have 16 Gb), a fast processor (which will speed up recognition - mine is 3.2 GHz) and I find an SSD solid-state hard drive is such an incredible upgrade to your computer that it can only do good things for voice recognition let alone everything else you do (including searching your hard drive or e-mails if you still store them locally). But this headset is rather cheap, ties your head to the computer via a wire, not particularly comfortable and with owning such an arsenal of microphones I never felt I could use compromise with such a 'freebie'. I use Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred 10.0 which came with a wired headset microphone. ![]() Whilst I am admittedly a microphone fan and collector, and also work as a voice-over artist, my main day job involves writing lots of e-mails each day.Īside from a headset telephone, colour laser printer and putting your computer monitor in portrait mode if you mostly do emails and documents on your PC, the number one item that will transform the way you do business and hugely increase your productivity is voice recognition software. Microphones for Voice Recognition SoftwareĪDVERT FREE - I'm not selling you anything.
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