Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking to increase productivity

September 29, 2009 by Ryan
Filed under: General Marketing

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Today was my first day using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, I had tried it in the past but I had to read like pages and pages of content during the training and never even got started with the software. So nearly 5 years later I figured why not give it a shot. So this morning I installed it and am now writing this blog post for you.

So the functions are really basic and believe it or not the training only took me approximately 5 minutes. My biggest problem is my Wal-Mart headset was a piece of junk and had too much sound interference with the microphone. So I went and unplugged my $50 turtle Beach headset for my Xbox 360. Now if you don’t have turtle Beach headset for the Xbox 360 then you probably know by now that you need to get one. On a side note I went like 52 kills and 16 deaths on Dome in call of duty 5 last night.

So all this typing so far has been in Dragon NaturallySpeaking and I haven’t typed a single thing. Now all the basic key commands you can say just like you are talking to a servant and he was transcribing everything that you say. Now forgive me for another TV reference but I was just watching the Tudors last night and King Henry wasn’t doing as much dictating as he probably should, most of the time he was just signing legislation and stuff. Oh and by the way, I’m currently on season two of the Tudors and it’s definitely worth watching especially since Rome was canceled.

Okay I apologize for all the nonsense lets get back to the point. I’m not lying to you when I tell you every single word in this post has been spoke and not typed by my own hands. The newest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking number 10 is amazing, it’s like it’s learning as I go and if I say something that could be something else it chooses for me but I can say to select that word or phrase or entire line and it will give me options to edit it. It’s almost like spellcheck, it will pop up with five different options and tell me to choose which one I want or I can give this a commands like to learn a word or something else.

This entire post is a real test of how well the newest version works in how well you can get it working within an hour. Now my voice is fairly normal it’s not like most elegant or anything but I don’t say the word UHH which believe it or not it ignores. It actually doesn’t even pick up that word and I had to spell it out manually, so if you kind of stutter or filler words the software should be determine the difference.

The software should work really good if you use it to read articles out loud and rewrite them in your own words at the same time. It should be a good alternative to hiring article writers or using article spinning software. Once you get it down you should be able to write approximately 150 words per minute without getting tired now that doesn’t mean you’re not going to lose your voice.

Okay so as you know the software still getting used to my voice and building a database so in the future I can talk quicker than I am now. I’m talking about a normal pace but I could be talking really quickly even faster than I can type by hand. You know, another issue I didn’t even think about is that a lot of bloggers have a problem speaking to their reader in a voice that they can understand. If you haven’t noticed some of your friends you talk to in real life can’t type worth a damn and you can’t understand a single thing they’re trying to tell you. Yeah, I’m talking about you Nick, LOL.

Give me some comments and let me know what you think!

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