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Windows® Speech Recognition in the Microsoft Vista operating system is absolutely free. Up until now it has lacked many of the features taken for granted by users of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. We previewed the Windows™ Speech Recognition macro builder several weeks ago and got great feedback and reviews. Since then we have made a few additions.
It has been renamed "Windows™ Speech Recognition Toolkit" as it is now more than just a macro builder. Here's a list of features:
The free download is good through July 31st. Once installed, you'll find a comprehensive User's Manual in PDF format, complete with screenshots and step-by-step instructions for each of the above functions.
Marty Markoe See us at www.MyMSSpeech.com
Although we can appreciate your enthusiasm and the free Vista speech engine’s accuracy for occasional non-serious dictation or consumer quality speech recognition use, it simply doesn't compare to NaturallySpeaking Medical 9.5 which is the only speech recognition product that is designed for professional/serious medical dictation, transcription or professional work and we customer satisfaction 30 day no restock fee moneyback guarantee it.
Lunis Orcutt – http://www.KnowBrainer.com Chat Live w/a Nuance Gold Certified Solutions Provider
KnowBrainer: Although we can appreciate your enthusiasm and the free Vista speech engine’s accuracy for occasional non-serious dictation or consumer quality speech recognition use, it simply doesn't compare to NaturallySpeaking Medical 9.5
We know KnowBrainer means well, but the point of the new Toolkit is that it adds many of the features of Dragon. Windows™ Speech Recognition is free in the Vista operating system. If one does not have Dragon NaturallySpeaking or if one just wishes to try speech recognition in Vista it does not take much effort. Using our new tools, a physician can easily add typical documents to improve the acoustic model or add and train words from their specialty. Much medical terminology is already in the backup dictionary of Windows Speech Recognition in the Vista operating system and just needs to be brought to the active vocabulary by general usage and using our toolkit.
Martin Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc. see us at: http://www.myMSspeech.com (for products specifically geared to Windows speech recognition) http://www.eMicrophones.com (for speech recognition microphones as well as conferencing microphones)
We would agree that some medical terminology is available in the Vista back up dictionary but the same is also true for the NaturallySpeaking backup dictionary and even the active dictionary but it falls very short of being a proper medical language model. With emicrophones not being licensed or certified by Nuance, they are not privy to a good deal of the internal workings of the company and their products but there is much more to language modeling then a simple vocabulary; a common misconception. NaturallySpeaking Medical includes professional language modeling which besides having a lot of additional vocabulary, includes commonly used medical phrases and additionally takes advantage of the Written Form/Spoken Form; such is the case of acronyms. A REAL language model can make NaturallySpeaking up to 20% more accurate and who has time to correct 3 times as many errors? There's nothing wrong with free and we welcome everyone to try out the Vista speech engine but if you're serious about medical dictation being done in a timely matter, the Vista speech engine is not likely to be a good speech recognition choice. If it was, we wouldn't be #1 in sales for NaturallySpeaking Professional.
KnowBrainer: Although we can appreciate your enthusiasm and the free Vista speech engine’s accuracy for occasional non-serious dictation or consumer quality speech recognition use, it simply doesn't compare to NaturallySpeaking Medical 9.5 which is the only speech recognition product that is designed for professional/serious medical dictation, transcription or professional work and we customer satisfaction 30 day no restock fee moneyback guarantee it.
We are not putting down your toolkit or your “expertise” per se. It was your recommendation that physicians consider using the Vista speech engine that we disagree with. Vista is fine for consumers but it's not well suited to professionals and is especially ill suited to the medical community. What we were talking about is accuracy and vocabulary; not commands. We are not recommending against your toolkit but rather against the use of the VSR (Vista speech recognition) in the medical profession because NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 out-of-the-box accuracy should be about 20% higher than the Vista speech engine and Ver. 10, which will be even more accurate, will be coming out in early to mid September. The medical profession shouldn't consider VSR and we 100% customer satisfaction guarantee everything we sell, including software, 32 days from the purchase date. Feel free to compare the 2 products.
If you are both offering free trials, then providers can just try them both out and decide for themselves.
martalli: If you are both offering free trials, then providers can just try them both out and decide for themselves.
Martin Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc.
KnowBrainer: Vista is fine for consumers but it's not well suited to professionals and is especially ill suited to the medical community. What we were talking about is accuracy and vocabulary; not commands.
We do not necessarily disagree "per se" with your statements as relates to using Dragon Medical. However, generalities are often wrong and dangerous to the verbalizer as they can come back to bite them at a later date. Certain medical specialties can easily benefit now, for example orthopedics, as they do not use extensive medical terminology, chemistry, and pharmacology. Also, it will not be long before there are medical vocabularies for Speech Recognition in the Vista operating system.
Martin
Here is something to try for those interested and who use virutal mahcines like VMWare. Run Dragon on one machine and WSR on the other and start dictating. The transcription will be recorded on both simultaneously. Great way to try which works best for you.
I could not tell the difference in accuracy.
soconfused: Here is something to try for those interested and who use virutal mahcines like VMWare. Run Dragon on one machine and WSR on the other and start dictating. The transcription will be recorded on both simultaneously. Great way to try which works best for you.I could not tell the difference in accuracy.
I believe that over time given Microsoft History they will have a viable solution for Speech Recognition and they are getting closer already. Microsoft will have it. I think that it works now, but Dragon is better for now because it has a big head start and large user base.
soconfused: Here is something to try for those interested and who use virutal mahcines like VMWare. Run Dragon on one machine and WSR on the other and start dictating. The transcription will be recorded on both simultaneously. Great way to try which works best for you. I could not tell the difference in accuracy.
Are you comparing DNS Medical version to the native version of Vista VR?
Chris Wilkerson, D.C. Carson Doctors Group TabletPCs in Medicine Editor-in-Chief www.MedicalTabletPC.com Home: www.Digital-Doc.com