Remote working ergonomics… perhaps not the sexiest of topics, but currently more important than ever. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tens of thousands of people
When you are dictating your texts, you are using your voice instead of typing. I know, I know… that’s really obvious! But what’s important to
Traditionally, Dragon NaturallySpeaking has been the gold standard for speech recognition software for the general public. Windows Speech Recognition, Google Voice Type and Apple keyboard
Apple Voice Control is the new speech-to-text option on the Mac and on iPhone/iPad. It’s a powerful enhancement of the operating system that allows you
Personalise your dictated text with your own font Is your handwriting lost forever if you start using dictation? Would it be possible to dictate in your
If you have visited this website before, you may have noticed that the name has changed. 😃 It used to be Learn Dragon Online,
It is just after Christmas and I am enjoying a break from work. We’ve had a wonderful time receiving my family and for the coming
The challenges of a speech recognition user are not to be underestimated! I had good fun creating this short video with sage advice (ahum) and
In autumn 2019 I first found out about the new Apple Voice Control feature. I am a happy user of both an iPhone and an
Have you ever been annoyed that Dragon is recognising a word that you do not want? Suppose you are a geneticist, then it is no fun
Michael posted this question last night as a comment here on the site. It is a brilliant question and I know that many people have
In the Nuance store, you can choose between different versions of Dragon speech recognition (previously called NaturallySpeaking). The Dragon Home version and Dragon Professional Individual
This spring, at a convention for online business owners we had to practice explaining to our neighbors what we ‘do’, how our business serves our clients.
Do you have a backup of your Dragon user profile? And do you know where it is? Only a couple of weeks ago I was
Here is a quick and practical trick for adding comments to a Word document by voice. If you keep the escape key pressed down while
This is the second blog post in a short series about Dragon Disaster Preparedness. You can find the first post here. Disaster Just over a
As with many of my blog posts, this one is inspired by a question I was asked: “Will I be able to use my Apple
The story of an epic almost-fail PC performance is hugely important when you use Dragon. So I felt inspired to share my adventures in trying
Last spring I wrote a blogpost about the fact that it was possible to use Dragon to click links in Firefox once more. For a
Suppose that there is someone who… …always listens to you …keep listening patiently (even if he doesn’t understand everything 🤣) …knows every detail of your
Recently a client contacted me, requiring urgent advice about a new microphone. What was the case? My client’s microphone didn’t work anymore. It was broken.
Recently, Brad asked a question in the comments of one of my blog posts. “How does Dragon deal with homophones?” That’s a great question and
Greetings! The New Year is almost there. Do you have any specific plans for 2019? Me… I don’t really connect new starts to the calendar,
UPDATE: at this point in time there’s no re-run of this challenge planned. UPDATE: The restart with Dragon Challenge will re-run starting 26 August 2019.
First of all: if you are sure you need a new microphone, check out my recommendations. But perhaps you are not sure yet? Please read
This may not come as a total surprise to you, but Dragon does not actually transcribe everything you say without mistakes. If only! Even if 97%
Even though Thanksgiving isn’t a European holiday, I do take a moment today to think about what I’m grateful for. Somewhere after being grateful for
Earlier this year I was interviewed by Neil Ball of The Entrepreneur way. I don’t think I shared the podcast interview via the blog, so
There are some topics that divide opinion. Topics that create a debate. The ongoing conversation about whether to leave one space or two at the
October 2018 is Dyslexia Awareness Month. Are you dyslectic? These are the cliff notes in a larger font: With Dragon you can dictate your
If you’re anything like me, you probably have done this many times: install a piece of software and then… just start using it. No tutorial
What is NaNoWriMo? NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it is actually an international non-profit initiative to encourage people to write a
As I am sitting here, writing this, we are experiencing record-breaking high temperatures. Yesterday, on my way back from client, I caught my dashboard thermometer
How secure are speech recognition applications? A couple of months ago I read an article in the Dutch media about Alexa, Amazon’s smart home assistant,
If you suddenly find that Dragon does not recognise your microphone any more, even though Windows sees it, the below video might be the solution.
Dragon stinks! Some time ago someone enquired in a forum after speech recognition software. But only a program that actually works! “Not Dragon, Dragon stinks!”
I had a fun experiment with Dragon: Recently there was a bit to do about a digitised sound sample saying either “Yanny” or “Laurel”. Watch
Dragon allows you to get a bit of freedom of movement. There is absulutely no need to be virtually chained to the keyboard and mouse,
(Updated Feb 2020 to cover Apple Voice Control) If you’re considering Dragon speech recognition, you want to be as sure as possible beforehand that it
NOTE: New developments -> New blogpost with even better news 🙂 Read all about it in this blogpost of 23 February 2019! Sometime last year
Nuance has come out with a free update to version 15.3 which offers a solution for several excruciating bugs in Dragon Professional Individual and Microsoft Office.
Dragon may seem a wonderful solution on first sight. And in most cases it can certainly be absolutely great. But there are several considerations to
It seems so convenient: just talk to your computer and it will do what you say. Much easier than use the keyboard and mouse, right?
Is there such a thing as an Ultimate guide to Dragon NaturallySpeaking? Let me explain how I came to this question: If you have read my
I’ve had incredible fun singing a Christmas song to the Dragon 🙂 . It’s amazing what you can make the speech recognition do if you
[post updated 6 January 2019] Do your own more than one computer? If you do, you are probably interested to know whether you can install
Recently I got this question: “What is the single most important factor for success with Dragon speech recognition?” All right, that is a question
It is a question that I get regularly: “What if I get a cold? Can I still dictate and use speech commands in my speech
Unfortunately not! Although the manufacturer promises that you can successfully use built-in laptop microphones for Dragon, I have found this to be incorrect. I’ve tried
Workld Emoji Day; I didn’t know it was a ‘thing’, but I’m happy to show how I dictate emoji’s in Dragon speech recognition software.
I am an entrepreneur: I run a speech recognition training and consulting business in the Netherlands and have been self-employed for over 7 years now.
[updated Jan 2020] Generally speaking, the term ‘speech recognition’ in technology describes the capability of an electronic device to respond to words spoken by humans.
This month it is 20 years ago that Dragon NaturallySpeaking by – then – Dragon Systems was ‘born’. It was the first speech recognition product that
I created LearnSpeechRecognition to help people get the most out of Dragon speech recognition software. Why a course on Dragon? While speech recognition software is
Update: This blogpost was first written when I started my site and didn’t have a proper ‘About me’ page in place. I now have one,
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