Dragon NaturallySpeaking - What's New
What’s new in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 11?
- What’s new in the Professional Edition?
- What’s new in the Premium Edition?
- What’s new in the Home Edition?
New in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Professional:
More Intuitive User Interface
- New Dragon Sidebar of commands makes it easier to discover and access important but often overlooked features, commands, and options
- Recognition Analytics alert you where there is an audio issue so you can achieve the best accuracy
- Elimination of on-screen distraction enables you to focus more on your thoughts and ideas for better communication
Improved Accuracy
- 15% greater accuracy out of the box compared to Dragon 10
- Enhanced correction enables you to make multiple selections, edits or formatting changes at one time for improved productivity and time savings
- Improved ability to learn from corrections of misrecognitions – whether the revisions are dictated or typed – to deliver continuous accuracy improvements over time
Faster Performance
- Improves recognition response time; faster than previous editions when selecting application menu items by voice; faster when executing voice commands that perform actions within applications (e.g., “insert page break,” “make that red,” etc.)
More Time-Saving Voice Commands
- New voice shortcuts that make it faster and easier to manage email, tasks and meetings
- New “Edit Search Keywords” box (with auto-formatting applied to search terms) delivers the ability to launch precise and efficient searches with Dragon Voice Shortcuts since he user can edit or add to search terms before execution of the search command
- New voice commands make it easier to open and view desktop applications or switch to a specific window
Support for Microsoft Office 2010 applications
Getting Started is Faster and Easier
- Simple and conversational user interface for user profile creation; setting up a microphone or new audio source is more clear and straightforward; new text options to “train” Dragon are designed to make the reading experience easier and more informative
- The minimum reading time required to train Dragon with a recorder has been reduced from 15 to 4 minutes
New in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Premium and Home:
More Intuitive User Interface
- New Dragon Sidebar of commands makes it easier to discover and access important but often overlooked features, commands, and options
- Recognition Analytics alert you where there is an audio issue so you can achieve the best accuracy
- Elimination of on-screen distraction enables you to focus more on your thoughts and ideas for better communication
Improved Accuracy
- 15% greater accuracy out of the box compared to Dragon 10
- Enhanced correction enables you to make multiple selections, edits or formatting changes at one time for improved productivity and time savings
- Improved ability to learn from corrections of misrecognitions – whether the revisions are dictated or typed – to deliver continuous accuracy improvements over time
Faster Performance
- Improves recognition response time; faster than previous editions when selecting application menu items by voice; faster when executing voice commands that perform actions within applications (e.g., “insert page break,” “make that red,” etc.)
- More Dragon Voice Shortcuts are included to consolidate multiple mouse clicks and keystrokes into a single voice command, like “Search [site] for [XYZ]”.
- New desktop and document navigation commands let you switch effortlessly between open windows by just saying the number of the selected window. Other commands make it simpler than ever to launch popular Windows programs on demand.
What’s new in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 10?
- What’s new in the Professional Edition?
- What’s new in the Preferred Edition?
- What’s new in the Standard Edition?
New in Dragon NaturallySpeaking V 10 Professional:
More Accurate Than Ever
Unrivalled desktop speech recognition accuracy; up to 20% more accurate than Version 9
Faster Than Ever
Significant improvement of response time; more than 50% reduction in the time it takes for words to appear on the screen
Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Email and Calendar
Dragon Voice Shortcuts collapse common multi-step tasks into direct voice commands. Now you can send emails and schedule meetings — faster than ever
At any time, no matter what is active on your screen, you can automatically create and address an email. For example, if you’re reviewing a website and you need to send an email to colleagues, just say, “Send email to Jon Smith and Raphael Sanchez,” and Dragon will activate your email program, create a new email and put the contact names you’ve said into the “To:” box. For new meetings or appointments, you can say, “Schedule meeting with Jon Smith and Raphael Sanchez,” and Dragon jumpstarts the process by opening a new calendar entry in Outlook and adding to it the selected contact(s). You can also say, “Schedule appointment with Design Team” or “Schedule an event with All Employees” using existing contact lists.
Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Web Search
Dragon Voice Shortcuts collapse common multi-step tasks into direct voice commands. Now you can search the Web for information, products, news and more — faster than ever
Dragon Voice Shortcuts make searching the Web faster and easier. Just say commands containing your desired search words, such as “Search the Web for financial management resources” or “Search maps for Italian restaurants in Burlington 01803,” and Dragon 10 will use the default search engine and Web browser to enter your dictated term(s) in the search field and return the results. Thanks to Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search, you can also get the top-ranked site directly, by saying, “Find a site about motorcycles.”
You may also search specific sites directly for videos, images, news, articles and products using commands such as “Search Wikipedia for George Washington Carver,” or “Search eBay for Bluetooth headsets.” Sites supported by Dragon Voice Shortcuts include Google, Yahoo, eBay, Wikipedia, YouTube, about.com, and more.
Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Desktop Search
Dragon Voice Shortcuts collapse common multi-step tasks into direct voice commands. Now you can search your computer — faster than ever
Dragon 10 introduces commands to search your computer as directly as the Web, by dictating the word(s) to find in documents, emails and Web-browsing history. For example, you can say, “Search computer for launch plans” and Dragon will complete the search using Google Desktop or Windows Vista desktop search. In addition, commands such as “Find an email about the Robinson report” directly open the top email containing the dictated keywords. Searching your computer has never been faster — or easier.
Quick Voice Formatting (“Delete | Copy | Bold | Underline | Italicise
New direct commands for formatting, deleting, and copying words and passages
Rather than selecting the relevant word(s) or passage and commanding what to do with that text (e.g., “Select very, [pause] Bold that”), you can now directly name the desired text with the desired action in a single voice command, such as “Bold very.” Just like in the familiar “Select
New UI Look and Feel
Updated icons are intuitive and easy to see
Dragon 10 introduces new graphical icons to enhance the DragonBar user interface, including a larger microphone icon, making the product easier to use.
Improved Help System and Tutorials
Includes enhanced Sample Commands window and interactive HTML tutorial with a completely new look and feel
Dragon 10 offers an enhanced Sample Commands window and interactive tutorial with a completely new look and feel. The new Web and Flash-based system offers improved navigation and content — comprehensive resources are just a command away! In addition, Dragon 10 also introduces a new mechanism to enable the creation of customisable help screens for end-users to be reminded of their favourite commands.
Improved Natural Commands for Microsoft Office 2007
Use your voice to control advanced features of Microsoft Office 2007
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 makes it easier than ever to use speech recognition with Microsoft Office. Use your voice to dictate, edit and control applications like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Improved Natural Commands for Mozilla Firefox
Improved Web browser experience is now available for Firefox
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 makes it easier than ever to use speech recognition with Mozilla Firefox, the award-winning Web browser used by tens of millions of people worldwide: you can now benefit from Natural Language commands, and the ability to activate a hyperlink by just saying part of its name.
Improved Enterprise Security Features (encrypt macros for distribution)
More configuration options provide administrators with better control of Dragon in the enterprise. Encrypt custom commands before distributing them.
Dragon 10 offers a command-line utility to let Value Added Resellers and IT departments encrypt custom commands before distributing them.
Improved Enterprise Security Features (disable creating, changing, or running of scripting commands to prevent VBA-viruses)
More configuration options provide administrators with better control of Dragon in the enterprise. Control the access to VBA-style custom commands
Advanced scripting commands can be used to create viruses, so Dragon 9 introduced the ability for the administrator to disable custom command creation by restricted users. Since it’s rather extreme to prevent all users from creating any type of command when the aim is to prevent misuse, Version 10 introduces the ability to disable each command type individually.
More Flexible Enrolment for younger speakers and users with certain speech challenges
Self-paced reading is available for speakers who have difficulty with the existing interactive text passages
Reading an acoustic training text efficiently teaches one’s voice to the software, and Dragon 10 offers an easier way to do it: print or view the entire text and record it at your own pace – without needing to satisfy the validation done by the software in the original prompt screens. By making it easier to train the product to one’s voice, Dragon 10 improves the experience for younger users and users with certain speech challenges.
Regional Accent Support
Significant increase in accuracy for accented speakers by using more advanced adaptation techniques and accent-specific models.
Following a significant data collection effort and research, Dragon 10 incorporates new acoustic models for better coverage of non-native and regional accents. Together with more powerful adaptation techniques, this will help everyone get better recognition accuracy — from the very first use.
Option to Disable Microsoft Text Services (CTFMon)
Easily turn off Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (CTFMon) to eliminate potential conflicts with Dragon
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 reduces to a simple checkbox the multi-step process of disabling alternative services that may cause conflicts, such as advanced technical services on Windows XP or handwriting features on tablet PCs.
Better control of commands vs. dictation on the Web
Require “Click” for hyperlinks and disable Web commands separately from dictation support
Dragon 10 helps ensure a comfortable experience on the Web, addressing the concern that words you mean to dictate may be interpreted as a command, even if said in isolation. Dragon 10 now provides finer options for optimal comfort on the Web whether you intend dictation or action: one can disable HTML commands and also require saying “Click” for hyperlinks separately, without disabling dictation support.
In addition, Dragon 10 replaces some existing single-word HTML commands with multiple-word equivalents, to avoid confusion with those single words meant as dictation:
DragonTemplates with Voice Fields
Quickly automate form filling applications
When creating Text-and-Graphics commands, you can now include variable fields to easily create templates that can be filled out by voice or by hand.
Auto Configuration for Optimal Performance Based on System Profile
Latency configuration on “slow” machines and per-application disabling of Natural Language commands. Installation automatically detects PC’s resources and adjusts options for optimal speed.
During installation, Dragon 10 automatically analyses your PC’s resources and changes default settings as needed to increase speed; this may include moving the Speed vs. Accuracy slider towards speed and disabling the Natural Language commands in some applications. The users can later change these options if they wish.
In addition, DNS10 gives finer control over the support for Natural Language commands, which means users can gain speed if they only use Natural Language commands in some applications. One can disable these large sets of flexible command wordings separately for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Corel WordPerfect.
Formatting and Word Properties Interface Enhancements
New Formatting dialog and Word Properties let you control the written forms more finely than
ever, including alternate forms, spacing and capitalisation before and after each item.
Dragon 10 gives easier and finer control over the form, spacing and capitalisation of items written in various contexts (e.g., inserting a space before or after, capitalising the next word, or using alternate forms like “Fig.” instead of “figure” before numerals.) For instance, if you want all numbers between zero and ten to be written as numerals, you can now simply set this with just one check on the Formatting dialog.
Embedded Data Collection Tool
Data Collection engine embedded in the product
A New User Wizard screen invites users to participate in a program designed to collect data to improve the overall accuracy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. The option is off by default.
New in Dragon NaturallySpeaking V 10 Preferred:
More Accurate Than Ever
Unrivalled desktop speech recognition accuracy; up to 20% more accurate than Version 9
Faster Than Ever
Significant improvement of response time; more than 50% reduction in the time it takes for words to appear on the screen.
Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Web Search
Dragon Voice Shortcuts collapse common multi-step tasks into direct voice commands. Now you can search the Web for information, products, news and more — faster than ever
Dragon Voice Shortcuts make searching the Web faster and easier. Just say commands containing your desired search words, such as “Search the Web for financial management resources” or “Search maps for Italian restaurants in Burlington 01803,” and Dragon 10 will use the default search engine and Web browser to enter your dictated term(s) in the search field and return the results. Thanks to Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search, you can also get the top-ranked site directly, by saying, “Find a site about motorcycles.”
You may also search specific sites directly for videos, images, news, articles and products using commands such as “Search Wikipedia for George Washington Carver,” or “Search eBay for Bluetooth headsets.” Sites supported by Dragon Voice Shortcuts include Google, Yahoo, eBay, Wikipedia, YouTube, about.com, and more.
Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Desktop Search
Dragon Voice Shortcuts collapse common multi-step tasks into direct voice commands. Now you can search your computer — faster than ever
Dragon 10 introduces commands to search your computer as directly as the Web, by dictating the word(s) to find in documents, emails and Web-browsing history. For example, you can say, “Search computer for launch plans” and Dragon will complete the search using Google Desktop or Windows Vista desktop search. In addition, commands such as “Find an email about the Robinson report” directly open the top email containing the dictated keywords. Searching your computer has never been faster — or easier.
Quick Voice Formatting (“Delete | Copy | Bold | Underline | Italicise
New direct commands for formatting, deleting, and copying words and passages
Rather than selecting the relevant word(s) or passage and commanding what to do with that text (e.g., “Select very, [pause] Bold that”), you can now directly name the desired text with the desired action in a single voice command, such as “Bold very.” Just like in the familiar “Select
New UI Look and Feel
Updated icons are intuitive and easy to see
Dragon 10 introduces new graphical icons to enhance the DragonBar user interface, including a larger microphone icon, making the product easier to use.
Improved Help System and Tutorials
Includes enhanced Sample Commands window and interactive HTML tutorial with a completely new look and feel
Dragon 10 offers an enhanced Sample Commands window and interactive tutorial with a completely new look and feel. The new Web and Flash-based system offers improved navigation and content — comprehensive resources are just a command away! In addition, Dragon 10 also introduces a new mechanism to enable the creation of customisable help screens for end-users to be reminded of their favourite commands.
Improved Natural Commands for Mozilla Firefox
Improved Web browser experience is now available for Firefox
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 makes it easier than ever to use speech recognition with Mozilla Firefox, the award-winning Web browser used by tens of millions of people worldwide: you can now benefit from Natural Language commands, and the ability to activate a hyperlink by just saying part of its name.
More Flexible Enrolment for younger speakers and users with certain speech challenges
Self-paced reading is available for speakers who have difficulty with the existing interactive text passages
Reading an acoustic training text efficiently teaches one’s voice to the software, and Dragon 10 offers an easier way to do it: print or view the entire text and record it at your own pace – without needing to satisfy the validation done by the software in the original prompt screens. By making it easier to train the product to one’s voice, Dragon 10 improves the experience for younger users and users with certain speech challenges.
Regional Accent Support
Significant increase in accuracy for accented speakers by using more advanced adaptation techniques and accent-specific models.
Following a significant data collection effort and research, Dragon 10 incorporates new acoustic models for better coverage of non-native and regional accents. Together with more powerful adaptation techniques, this will help everyone get better recognition accuracy — from the very first use.
Option to Disable Microsoft Text Services (CTFMon)
Easily turn off Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (CTFMon) to eliminate potential conflicts with Dragon
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 reduces to a simple checkbox the multi-step process of disabling alternative services that may cause conflicts, such as advanced technical services on Windows XP or handwriting features on tablet PCs.
Better control of commands vs. dictation on the Web
Require “Click” for hyperlinks and disable Web commands separately from dictation support
Dragon 10 helps ensure a comfortable experience on the Web, addressing the concern that words you mean to dictate may be interpreted as a command, even if said in isolation. Dragon 10 now provides finer options for optimal comfort on the Web whether you intend dictation or action: one can disable HTML commands and also require saying “Click” for hyperlinks separately, without disabling dictation support.
In addition, Dragon 10 replaces some existing single-word HTML commands with multiple-word equivalents, to avoid confusion with those single words meant as dictation:
Auto Configuration for Optimal Performance Based on System Profile
Latency configuration on “slow” machines and per-application disabling of Natural Language commands. Installation automatically detects PC’s resources and adjusts options for optimal speed.
During installation, Dragon 10 automatically analyses your PC’s resources and changes default settings as needed to increase speed; this may include moving the Speed vs. Accuracy slider towards speed and disabling the Natural Language commands in some applications. The users can later change these options if they wish.
In addition, DNS10 gives finer control over the support for Natural Language commands, which means users can gain speed if they only use Natural Language commands in some applications. One can disable these large sets of flexible command wordings separately for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Corel WordPerfect.
Formatting and Word Properties Interface Enhancements
New Formatting dialog and Word Properties let you control the written forms more finely than
ever, including alternate forms, spacing and capitalisation before and after each item.
Dragon 10 gives easier and finer control over the form, spacing and capitalisation of items written in various contexts (e.g., inserting a space before or after, capitalising the next word, or using alternate forms like “Fig.” instead of “figure” before numerals.) For instance, if you want all numbers between zero and ten to be written as numerals, you can now simply set this with just one check on the Formatting dialog.
Embedded Data Collection Tool
Data Collection engine embedded in the product
A New User Wizard screen invites users to participate in a program designed to collect data to improve the overall accuracy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. The option is off by default.
New in Dragon NaturallySpeaking V 10 Standard:
More Accurate Than Ever
Unrivalled desktop speech recognition accuracy; up to 20% more accurate than Version 9
Faster Than Ever
Significant improvement of response time; more than 50% reduction in the time it takes for words to appear
Quick Voice Formatting (“Delete | Copy | Bold | Underline | Italicise
New direct commands for formatting, deleting, and copying words and passages.
In addition to the many existing editing commands such as “Delete line”, Dragon 10 introduces direct commands for formatting, deleting, and copying named words and passages. Rather than selecting the relevant word(s) or passage and commanding what to do with that text (e.g., “Select very, [pause] Bold that”), you can now directly name the desired text with the desired action in a single voice command, such as “Bold very.” Just like in the familiar “Select
New UI Look and Feel
Updated icons are intuitive and easy to see
Dragon 10 introduces new graphical icons to enhance the DragonBar user interface, including a larger microphone icon, making the product easier to use.
Improved Help System and Tutorials
Includes enhanced Sample Commands window and interactive HTML tutorial with a completely new look and feel
Dragon 10 offers an enhanced Sample Commands window and interactive tutorial with a completely new look and feel. The new Web and Flash-based system offers improved navigation and content — comprehensive resources are just a command away! In addition, Dragon 10 also introduces a new mechanism to enable the creation of customisable help screens for end-users to be reminded of their favourite commands.
Improved Natural Commands for Mozilla Firefox
Improved Web browser experience is now available for Firefox
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 makes it easier than ever to use speech recognition with Mozilla Firefox, the award-winning Web browser used by tens of millions of people worldwide: you can now benefit from Natural Language commands, and the ability to activate a hyperlink by just saying part of its name.
More Flexible Enrolment for younger speakers and users with certain speech challenges
Self-paced reading is available for speakers who have difficulty with the existing interactive text passages
Reading an acoustic training text efficiently teaches one’s voice to the software, and Dragon 10 offers an easier way to do it: print or view the entire text and record it at your own pace – without needing to satisfy the validation done by the software in the original prompt screens. By making it easier to train the product to one’s voice, Dragon 10 improves the experience for younger users and users with certain speech challenges.
Regional Accent Support
Significant increase in accuracy for accented speakers by using more advanced adaptation techniques and accent-specific models.
Following a significant data collection effort and research, Dragon 10 incorporates new acoustic models for better coverage of non-native and regional accents. Together with more powerful adaptation techniques, this will help everyone get better recognition accuracy — from the very first use.
Option to Disable Microsoft Text Services (CTFMon)
Easily turn off Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (CTFMon) to eliminate potential conflicts with Dragon
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 reduces to a simple checkbox the multi-step process of disabling alternative services that may cause conflicts, such as advanced technical services on Windows XP or handwriting features on tablet PCs.
Better control of commands vs. dictation on the Web
Require “Click” for hyperlinks and disable Web commands separately from dictation support
Dragon 10 helps ensure a comfortable experience on the Web, addressing the concern that words you mean to dictate may be interpreted as a command, even if said in isolation. Dragon 10 now provides finer options for optimal comfort on the Web whether you intend dictation or action: one can disable HTML commands and also require saying “Click” for hyperlinks separately, without disabling dictation support.
In addition, Dragon 10 replaces some existing single-word HTML commands with multiple-word equivalents, to avoid confusion with those single words meant as dictation:
Auto Configuration for Optimal Performance Based on System Profile
Latency configuration on “slow” machines and per-application disabling of Natural Language commands. Installation automatically detects PC’s resources and adjusts options for optimal speed.
During installation, Dragon 10 automatically analyses your PC’s resources and changes default settings as needed to increase speed; this may include moving the Speed vs. Accuracy slider towards speed and disabling the Natural Language commands in some applications. The users can later change these options if they wish.
In addition, DNS10 gives finer control over the support for Natural Language commands, which means users can gain speed if they only use Natural Language commands in some applications. One can disable these large sets of flexible command wordings separately for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Corel WordPerfect.
Formatting and Word Properties Interface Enhancements
New Formatting dialog and Word Properties let you control the written forms more finely than
ever, including alternate forms, spacing and capitalisation before and after each item.
Dragon 10 gives easier and finer control over the form, spacing and capitalisation of items written in various contexts (e.g., inserting a space before or after, capitalising the next word, or using alternate forms like “Fig.” instead of “figure” before numerals.) For instance, if you want all numbers between zero and ten to be written as numerals, you can now simply set this with just one check on the Formatting dialog.
Embedded Data Collection Tool
Data Collection engine embedded in the product
A New User Wizard screen invites users to participate in a program designed to collect data to improve the overall accuracy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. The option is off by default.
What’s new in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 9?
New in Dragon NaturallySpeaking V 9 Preferred:
- AutoTranscribe Folder New!
The option to create a desktop folder to place digital dictations from a handheld device and have them transcribed automatically to streamline the dictation workflow.
- Unprecedented Speech Recognition Accuracy Improved!
The new Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 speech engine is up to 20% more accurate than version 8.
- No Script Reading Required New!
Get started instantly with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 without having to read any scripts or training text.
- Expanded Support for New Applications New!
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 now supports Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. Use built-in command-and-control commands to navigate more easily in Microsoft Outlook Express. Dictate, edit, and navigate more easily in Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect.
- New Tutorials New!
New tutorials simplify the training process, so you can be an expert Dragon NaturallySpeaking user right away.
- Support for Non-standard Edit Controls New!
Support for Non-standard Edit Controls means you get full Dragon functionally, such as “Select-And-Say” in more applications than ever before. New supported edit controls include Borland’s TMemo, TEdit and TRichEdit controls as well as TE Edit from SubSystems and TX Text from TX Text Control.
- Select-And-Say Indicator New!
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 includes a new indicator that lets you know when you have “Select-And-Say” functionality available.
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking Command Browser Improved!
The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Command Browser is faster and easier to use than ever before.
- Bluetooth Wireless Microphone Support New!
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 now supports certain Bluetooth wireless microphones as an input device, empowering you to dictate without being tethered to your PC.
- Dictate Into More Handheld Devices Improved!
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 also supports handheld digital recorders and other PDAs that record in .wma and .mp3 format for deferred transcription.
New in Dragon NaturallySpeaking V 9 Professional Edition only:
- Higher Accuracy Improved!
Although all editions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking use the same core engine, the ability to create multiple custom vocabularies in Professional, Medical and Legal editions can increase accuracy by as much as 5%. - User Profile Available Anywhere on the Network Improved!
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 makes your user profile available anywhere on the network, via mapped drive, UNC Path or http, and automatically synchronises updates and adaptations centrally. - Citrix Support New!
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 supports Citrix deployments, giving users access from thin client workstations. - Voice Notations New!
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 includes a new “Voice Notations” feature for Microsoft Word, which allows users to include untranscribed instructions for third-party editors. - Tools for Network Management Improved!
Manage user profiles, vocabularies and installations of Dragon NaturallySpeaking over a network with a new GUI. - DNS Administrator Improved!
Use DNS Administrator to manage vocabularies and commands from a central network location.