Green lines are words or punctuation that Dragon Naturally Speaking missed.Red errors are incorrect words, or additional words that Dragon Naturally Speaking wrote down.(Check out the results at the bottom of this post.)
Usually, I go through and look at the type of mistakes Dragon Naturally Speaking made to separate word errors from punctuation and capitalization errors, but this time I kept things simple. (I’ve used this voice profile to dictate more than 74,000 words with an average accuracy of 97.6%.) I also upgraded this user profile for Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 when I was testing it.įinally, I saved each transcription into a plain text file and then I used tortoise merge to compare the original document to what Dragon Naturally Speaking transcribed. I used my regular Dragon Naturally Speaking user profile that I’ve been training for almost two years.I went to the general training process, but I did not let Dragon analyze my emails and documents when I created these profiles. I created a brand-new user profile in both Dragon Naturally Speaking 11, and Dragon Naturally Speaking 12.I also used two different user profiles to compare Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 and Dragon Naturally Speaking 12. This way I could be sure that any differences between Dragon 12 and Dragon 11 would be due to the voice-recognition software and not differences in the way that I read the rainbow passage. I used audacity to trim out the punctuation and commands and I saved this as “Recording #2.”.“comma”, “period”, and “new paragraph”) “Recording #1” I recorded the rainbow passage as an MP3 and included punctuation and commands (i.e.
The cool thing about Dragon Naturally Speaking premium is that you can transcribe recordings from MP3 files.
I used the rainbow passage to do a quick check to see if Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 was really better than Dragon Naturally Speaking 11. (Apparently, it’s up to a 20% more accurate than Dragon Naturally Speaking 11.) Maybe, but I’m not so sure.Īfter using Dragon Naturally Speaking (11.5) for 60 blog posts and 74,000+ words, I find the voice recognition engine generally gets around 97.6% of the words correct. Dragon Naturally Speaking premium 12 just came out today, and the official nuance website says the updated speech recognition software is more accurate, straight out-of-the-box compared to Dragon 11.
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