The idea? You speak into your device like you normally would, and the app recognizes exactly what you say, chunk by chunk. A simple app, Dragon Dictation is voice recognition app for iPhone. Okay, now that that's sorted, on with the review!.
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From there, speech recognition requests and contact names are processed in data centers based here in the US that meet Nuance’s stringent security and privacy standards – the same standards that we use for processing private information in other areas of our business.
"Dragon Dictation transcribes voice to text with fully automated speech recognition software and only uploads users’ contact names – no email, phone or any other personally identifying information – to optimize name recognition when a user dictates.
If we're to believe an app store reviewer though, he received a reply from Nuance Communications which says that they only store names, for better recognition. Now I don't know about you, but I can now see why this application got the bad press it did. The problem people had with this was with one section of the agreement which stated that Nuance Communications, also the developer of Dragon Natural Speaking for Mac, would store details from your iPhone contacts on their servers. Nevertheless, Dragon Dictation does just that. If anything, you'll just achieve putting them completely off the using your app, because of the amount of text they have to read through before they can play. In my opinion it's never a good choice to stick a EULA in front of a user especially when launching an app - that's what the website is for. Why I hear you ask? Well, its all because of that rather long end user agreement which you must accept and agree to, in order to use the company's application. This is where voice training comes reading on-screen text aloud so that the speech recognition software can get a measure of how a user says certain words, the cadence of their speech, and so on.Before I get into reviewing this app, I just want to take a minute and say that I've seen a lot of controversy surrounding Dragon Dictation. By asking the user to speak the word "dog", for example, the software knows that whatever noise the user makes in response can always be interpreted as "dog" and displayed in type accordingly. Automated telephone answering systems may be able to respond to a limited selection of spoken commands from just about any caller, but the speech recognition offered by Dragon Dictate is designed to recognise open-ended verbalisation for text transcription purposes, and so requires some initial voice training with the person using it.Īlthough speech recognition software employs a range of sophisticated audio, contextual and statistical analysis techniques to cope with homonyms and other tricky aspects of language, the basic idea involves matching elements of speech to the contents of a word database. As the back of the Dragon Dictate 2.0 box points out, most people can talk much faster than they can type, but speech recognition isn't quite so quick to set up as just plugging in a keyboard.