

This is how the accuracy rate is so high, it also tends to make any spell checker you use redundant for normal words.Professional 15 is designed for Windows 10 and Office 365. No longer do these programs recognise a single word but instead go for a phrase or even a whole sentence that is why there is normally a lag between you saying the words and them appearing on the page. The claim used to be 99% and I seem to remember more recently 99.7% but all this depends on the way you speak. In normal dictation I get 100% accuracy even with quiet music playing in the next room. You can mount the DragonBar in other places around the screen but convention says it should be at the top. The original DragonBar uses the whole of the top of the screen in a vertical bar of under 1 cm. The new DragonBar takes only 2.5 cm of space in the centre of the top of your monitor or panel, when expanded this increases to around 17.5 cm. I was surprised that V14 comes in a box with nothing else not even a basic headset, I know earlier versions have given quite sophisticated headsets, this to me is a mistake as people will try to use totally unsuitable microphones and decide that the software is faulty rather than the hardware. It is however possible to get working with only a couple of paragraphs, best of all these tell you exactly why you are doing the reading so that you can link your voice, any background noise plus whatever microphone or headset you are using and Dragon. This is still possible and it will get nuances from your speech pattern. Training always used to be something that took time and you read pages from books as laid down on the screen.


One little niggle is that the Dragon Bar – especially the original one – moves icons that might otherwise be in that position.
