Dragon Naturally Speaking

Supplier: http://www.nuance.co.uk

Brief description

  • Speech recognition program
  • As the user speaks into the microphone, the speech is automatically turned into text
  • Can read back &/or listen back to what has been typed

Who could benefit

  • Someone with good speech & listening skills but compromised spelling &/or reading skills

Comments

  • Need to train the program to recognise your speech
  • Noise reducing microphones work best
  • Requires good cognitive skills to remember commands & adapt speaking rate

 

Easy to use independently: Fairly
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Version: UK English, American English, Australian English
Access: Keyboard, Mouse
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