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My name is Brett Bumeter and I've been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for two years now. I started with version 9 and upgraded to version 10 back in August. Version 10 has brought a great deal more accuracy to the program, and even more importantly it gives you faster visual feedback when you're writing. Or I should say when you're talking and the writing is magically appearing on the screen in front of you.

These days when I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking, I typically type about 130 words per minute and then spend a little time editing after I've written a document. When I average out the editing time with the actual time I spend writing, it usually works out to somewhere between 90 and 110 words per minute to get the finished document ready.

If I'm writing a shorter document like an e-mail, I can typically write a whole lot faster than if I'm writing a longer document. The decrease in speed typically comes from the fact that I have to think more when I'm writing a longer document unless I'm doing something that is more free flow like a brainstorming session or if I'm trying to write something creatively just to get an idea documented before I go back and structure it or edit it. I do find that the more that I talk, the faster that Dragon NaturallySpeaking will write.

If I constantly write single sentences by speaking them out loud and then take a break or pause, the program tends to slow down mostly because my voice is slowing down. But I can keep my voice talking and keep the thoughts and ideas flowing not only through my brain but out my lips, then it will immediately be transcribed into text on the screen.

In some regards this can sound a little bit like gibberish. So when you learn how to compose with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you have to be careful to think out what it is that you want to say, and then say those things rapidly. This is not a program where you have to enunciate every single word in a slow fashion that is reminiscent of watching some 80s movie about computers gone wild like wargames or something.

So anyway I wanted to share with you this great little video that Owen put together. Owen is a blogger from the Isle of Man that I've known for a couple of years now, and he does a great job covering a number of different topics relating to technology. That's partly because Owen used to be a programmer or developer, and these days he tends to focus on working in web design and building plug-ins and more advanced setups for bloggers and companies looking to move into the social media elements of the world that some of us know today.

Regardless Owen put together a nice little video that shows Dragon NaturallySpeaking working with WordPress, one of the most popular blogging software systems in the world. WordPress is basically a web-based application, and so this also illustrates that Dragon NaturallySpeaking can work very well with web-based applications that accept text entry into a text box.

Of course Dragon NaturallySpeaking can also work very well with Microsoft Word and a number of other different word editors or text editors. You can use it with Microsoft Outlook or express or Google Mail or a number of different e-mail applications as well.

I even use the program with a MP3 voice recorder that I picked up from Sony, and I'm able to record my voice into the recorder and then download MP3 files into my computer for later transcription. The program basically processes the MP3 file as if I am speaking them into the computer. The nice thing about it is that I can have my computer transcribe my files while doing something completely different.

Best Regards,
Brett Bumeter
http://softduit.com

PS This document was approximately 650 words long and took me 5 1/2 minutes to speak-type. It took another couple minutes to review and edit. That means I was able to type this at about 118 words per minute and with editing mixed in it was 87 words per minute! Not bad for sitting back away from my computer relaxing while I write this note. :)


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