Key Features
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. See sample commands. (See the feature highlight. )
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
| Italicize ” commands)
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 ” commands, you can even
designate a whole passage by quoting its first and last word(s).
(See the feature highlight. )
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 customizable help screens
for end-users to be reminded of their favorite commands. (See the
feature highlight. )
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 Enrollment 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 analyzes 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 capitalization before and after each item.
Dragon 10 gives easier and finer control over the form, spacing and
capitalization of items written in various contexts (e.g., inserting
a space before or after, capitalizing 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. |
