You can open programs (“open Firefox”), pick menu commands, click Web links, move the cursor, format text (“italicize ‘The New York Times’ ”) and so on.
It achieved 100 percent accuracy, even correctly nailing toughies like “LinkedIn,” “Twitterific,” “freebies” and “twentysomethings.” (It made one error, but I’m letting it off the hook for not recognizing the Web site name Bebo.) I installed the software on my PC, skipped the training, and dictated one of my old columns, 1,300 words. The accuracy is so good that you no longer have to begin by reading a four-minute training text, as in years past. Nuance engineers later exploited this gold mine, using it to test out new recognition algorithms to improve Dragon’s accuracy. Its computers keep copies of those hundreds of thousands of dictated messages (no names attached, of course), creating an amazing central archive of American voices and speech patterns. You speak the company’s computers in Boston analyze your snippet within seconds, the converted, typed text appears on your screen.īut this was no altruistic move Nuance had an ulterior motive. More interesting is how it got there.īack in December, Nuance began offering a free iPhone app, Dragon Dictation. Which is fine, if barely noticeable (how much better is a 15 percent gain when you’re already getting 99.6 percent accuracy?). Nuance says the new version is 15 percent more accurate.
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