Here are a few examples: Dragon gives persons with mobility impairments those who can t manipulate a mouse or press keys access to most computer functions, especially communication and navigating web pages. For students with disabilities, speech recognition provides many features that can make your computer and the web more accessible and writing tasks easier. Getting thoughts on paper faster is Dragon s killer app aimed at all users. You attach a headset or wireless microphone to your computer, and once you train the program to recognize your voice, you can use it for many things, including: Writing papers Composing (especially Gmail and Hotmail) Proofing text by hearing it read aloud Launching applications Browsing the web Using your ios or Android device as a wireless mic Dragon also has text-to-speech to read your words aloud to help you proof and edit text. Nuance makes a largely similar program, Dragon Dictate, that runs on Mac OS X machines and ios devices. Dragon NaturallySpeaking runs on Windows-based PCs.

Such is the appeal of speech (or voice) recognition, a technology developed for persons with disabilities that now appeals to millions of mainstream users. 1 An Introduction to Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Dictate By Andrew Leib You ve probably seen those TV commercials for Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking, where a father, while ironing, dictates his romance novel.

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