Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
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A sample dictation in Microsoft Word 2010.
A sample dictation in Microsoft Word 2010.
Developer(s) Nuance Communications
Stable release 11.5 / June 2011
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Type Voice recognition
License Proprietary
Website http://www.nuance.com

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a speech recognition software package developed and sold by Nuance Communications for Windows personal computers. The most recent package is version 11.5[1], which supports 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Vista and 7.[2][3] The Mac OS version is called Dragon Dictate.[4]

Contents

Features

NaturallySpeaking utilizes a minimal user interface. As an example, dictated words appear in a floating tooltip as they are spoken (though there is an option to set this feature so it is not displayed to increase speed), and when the speaker pauses, the program transcribes the words into the active window at the location of the cursor (Dragon does not support dictating to background windows). The software has three primary areas of functionality: dictation, text-to-speech and command input. The user is able to dictate and have speech transcribed as written text, have a document synthesized as an audio stream, or issue commands that are recognized as such by the program. In addition, voice profiles can be accessed through different computers in a networked environment, although the audio hardware and configuration must be identical on both machines. The Professional version allows creation of custom commands to control programs or functions not built into NaturallySpeaking.

History

Drs. James and Janet Baker founded Dragon Systems in 1982 to release products centered around their voice recognition prototype.[5] DragonDictate was first released for DOS, and utilized hidden Markov models, which is a statistical method for the recognition of speech. At the time, the hardware was insufficiently powerful to address the problem of word segmentation, and DragonDictate was unable to determine the boundaries of words during continuous speech input. Users were forced to pronounce one word at a time, each clearly separated by a small pause. DragonDictate was based on a trigram model, and is known as a discrete utterance speech recognition engine.[6]

Dragon Systems released NaturallySpeaking 1.0 as their first continuous dictation product in 1997.[7] The company was then purchased in June 2000 by Lernout & Hauspie, a corporation that had been involved in financial scandals as reported by the New York Times.[8] Following the bankruptcy of Lernout & Hauspie, the rights to the Dragon product line were acquired by ScanSoft. In 2005, ScanSoft launched a de facto acquisition of Nuance Communications, and rebranded itself as Nuance.[9]

Versions

Version Release date Editions Operating Systems Supported
1.0 June 1997 Personal Windows 95, NT 4.0.
2.0 November 1997 Standard, Preferred, Deluxe Windows 95, NT 4.0.
3.0 October 1998 Point & Speak, Standard, Preferred, Professional (with optional Legal and Medical add-on products) Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0.
4.0 August 4, 1999 Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical, Mobile Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 SP3+.
5.0 August 2000 Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0 SP6+, 2000.
6.0 November 15, 2001 Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical
7.0 March 2003 Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical Windows 98SE, Me, NT4 SP6+, 2000, XP.
8.0 November 2004 Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical Windows Me (Only Standard and Preferred editions), Windows 2000 SP4+, Windows XP SP1+.
9.0 July 2006 Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical, SDK client, SDK server, Windows 2000 SP4+, XP SP1+.
9.5 January 2007 Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical, SDK client, SDK server Windows 2000 SP4+, XP SP1+, Vista (32-bit).
10.0 August 7, 2008 Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical Windows 2000 SP4+, XP SP2+ (32-bit), Vista (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows 7 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2003.
10.1 March 2009 Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical Windows 2000 SP4+, XP SP2+ (32-bit), Vista (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows 7 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2003.
11.0 August 2010 Home, Premium, Professional, Legal Windows XP SP2+ (32-bit), Vista SP1+ (32-bit and 64-bit), 7 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2003, 2008.
11.5 June 2011 Home, Premium, Professional, Legal Windows XP SP2+ (32-bit), Vista SP1+ (32-bit and 64-bit), 7 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2003, 2008.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nuance Dragon Products". http://www.nuance.com/dragon/index.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-29. 
  2. ^ "Nuance product support for Microsoft Windows Vista". http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/support/vista_64bit.asp. Retrieved 2009-12-15. 
  3. ^ "Nuance product support for Microsoft Windows 7". 2010. http://www.nuance.co.uk/windows7/. Retrieved 16-Aug-2010. 
  4. ^ "Dragon for Mac". 2010. http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/by-product/dragon-for-mac/index.htm. Retrieved 1-Jan-2011. 
  5. ^ "Dragon Systems history". http://www.dragon-medical-transcription.com/history_speech_recognition.html. Retrieved 2010-02-03. 
  6. ^ "DragonDictate product information". http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/a2x-voice/dd-faq.html#What. Retrieved 2010-02-03. 
  7. ^ "Dragon NaturallySpeaking 1.0 released". http://www.dragon-medical-transcription.com/history_speech_recognition.html. Retrieved 2010-02-03. 
  8. ^ "Dragon Systems purchased by Lernout & Hauspie". New York Times. 2001-05-07. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/07/business/dragon-systems-sputters-after-belgian-suitor-fails.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2010-02-03. 
  9. ^ "ScanSoft and Nuance to Merge". 2005-05-09. http://www.nuance.com/news/pressreleases/2005/20050509_nuance.asp. Retrieved 2010-02-03. 

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