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Speech Technology / Dragon 11 and Hal compatibility
« on: August 17, 2010, 04:03:46 pm »
The New Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 becomes available August 23rd, according to Amazon.com website:
http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Naturally-Speaking-Premium-11/dp/B003VNCROU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1282070857&sr=8-2
I own Dragon 10 Preferred. I got an email from Nuance, offering to let me upgrade to Dragon 11 Premium for $100, which is half the full price. They are also offering to let me purchase an additional copy for $100. The offer is good up until September 30th.
It's tempting, because I have two Hals, and I could have a Dragon 11 for each one. But I'm wondering if Dragon 11 is compatible with Hal? I imagine it would be, but it would be nice to know for sure. Has anyone here been using an advance copy of Dragon 11 with Hal? I'd like to be sure before spending that kind of money. They say that Dragon 11 has a new interface, and I'm wondering too how that will work with Hal.
In truth, I don't really have much use for most of the Dragon features; I just use it for Hal. It would be nice if Nuance offered a Dragon 11 plug-in for Hal. Any chance of that happening? I have the ViaVoice plugin, but it was disappointing, because I could not train it properly because too many of the training and correcting features were unavailable, and the few training features there were stopped working after you used them once. I found it ultimately unusable, which is why I switched to Dragon.
The reviews for Dragon 11 are looking good so far:
http://voice-recognition-software-review.toptenreviews.com/dragon-naturally-speaking-review.html
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/587538/review/dragon_naturallyspeaking_11_professional.html
http://review.techworld.com/speech-recognition/3233752/dragon-naturallyspeaking-11-professional-review/?intcmp=nws-mdb-rtd
But whether it's worth the upgrade or not is hard to say. The recognition in Dragon 10 was already pretty good. Now it's a little better, but some say it's not a dramatic difference.
I'm wondering too, about folks who had Dragon Standard 10, if they were offered a similar deal, perhaps at cheaper prices?
I'm not in a hurry to upgrade, but I would be interested in finding out more about Hal compatibility before doing anything.
- Chaz
http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Naturally-Speaking-Premium-11/dp/B003VNCROU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1282070857&sr=8-2
I own Dragon 10 Preferred. I got an email from Nuance, offering to let me upgrade to Dragon 11 Premium for $100, which is half the full price. They are also offering to let me purchase an additional copy for $100. The offer is good up until September 30th.
It's tempting, because I have two Hals, and I could have a Dragon 11 for each one. But I'm wondering if Dragon 11 is compatible with Hal? I imagine it would be, but it would be nice to know for sure. Has anyone here been using an advance copy of Dragon 11 with Hal? I'd like to be sure before spending that kind of money. They say that Dragon 11 has a new interface, and I'm wondering too how that will work with Hal.
In truth, I don't really have much use for most of the Dragon features; I just use it for Hal. It would be nice if Nuance offered a Dragon 11 plug-in for Hal. Any chance of that happening? I have the ViaVoice plugin, but it was disappointing, because I could not train it properly because too many of the training and correcting features were unavailable, and the few training features there were stopped working after you used them once. I found it ultimately unusable, which is why I switched to Dragon.
The reviews for Dragon 11 are looking good so far:
http://voice-recognition-software-review.toptenreviews.com/dragon-naturally-speaking-review.html
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/587538/review/dragon_naturallyspeaking_11_professional.html
http://review.techworld.com/speech-recognition/3233752/dragon-naturallyspeaking-11-professional-review/?intcmp=nws-mdb-rtd
But whether it's worth the upgrade or not is hard to say. The recognition in Dragon 10 was already pretty good. Now it's a little better, but some say it's not a dramatic difference.
I'm wondering too, about folks who had Dragon Standard 10, if they were offered a similar deal, perhaps at cheaper prices?
I'm not in a hurry to upgrade, but I would be interested in finding out more about Hal compatibility before doing anything.
- Chaz