The number-crunching required to transcribe what someone has just said in reasonable time is considerable, but the prodigious amounts of processing power offered by today’s PCs makes it not only possible, but also eminently practical.
Instead, such software relies upon matching parts of speech to information stored in a database and displaying the corresponding words on screen. Its latest release for Windows is Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 and although this edition is being sold as a boxed standalone product, it’s also a free update for users of last year’s version 11.ĭespite what you may have seen in the movies, speech recognition has yet to reach the stage where computers can actually understand what someone is saying and act accordingly. This is the realm of speech recognition software and it’s one in which Nuance has been plugging away for many years. Anyone who spends any time using a PC will inevitably end up talking to it, so it’s only natural that software should exist to put such utterances to good use.
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