“Delete” function removes the last line you dictated. Other commands include “New Line” to create a new line with the cursor. Then, if you make mistakes, you can correct this by typing straight on the document without having to turn off the microphone. You can input punctuation marks by saying the name of the specific punctuation marks where they should be inserted. This is an indicator that the app is ready to accept your voice input for dictating or in other words, for translating speech to text. To use the Dictate feature in Word, you only need to click the button and a dot next to the microphone icon will turn red. Meanwhile, in OneNote, PowerPoint, and of course, Word, the Dictate button is located on the far-right side of the Home tab. Maybe I should just stop saving the changes though anyway.In Outlook, the Dictate button is available on the right-hand side of the Message ribbon. The reason why I save the changes though is because there's always new words that I add to the word list because I can see that they're going to come up numerous times in a specific translation. The slider you mentioned was right in the middle in my case – I moved it one notch to the left and that appears to have done the trick!īy the way, an interesting point to note is that I didn't have the problem at all at first, it has developed over time and become increasingly worse, I assume this is because I almost always save the changes to my user files when I exit Dragon, which means my user must be pretty huge by now. Thanks very much for your suggestion, I tried it out today and although I'm having to put up with lower accuracy than usual (and enunciate much more clearly ), I haven't yet experienced the time lag that I had been having problems with before. If, however, the pointer is set very far to the right, you might want to experiment with it by sliding it towards the center of the scale to see whether you notice any improvement in speed. If in your case the pointer is near the middle or more to the left ("higher speed"), then obviously there's a different reason for the slow-down. When I set the pointer to the right-most position (highest accuracy), DNS slowed down considerably.
There is a slider in the center of the dialogue box that lets you choose between "fast" and "accurate" recognition. Go to Tools>Options> Additional Settings (may be "Other Settings" or something similar).Ĭlicking on this tab will display a dialogue box. Since I run the German version of DNS, my "translations" below of the menu items may not correspond exactly to the English version, but I think you will be able to locate them easily: There is a setting in DNS 10 that appears to slow down DNS, Annette-at least that is my experience. I was wondering if anyone else has had the same problem or similar, any feedback would be much appreciated. This isn't an ideal solution but I guess it will have to do for the time being. What they have now told me to do is to use the dictation box (Tools -> Dictation Box on the DragonBar), so I can dictate my translation into there and press "transfer" to enter it into Word. They now think that the problem is associated with Trados and not with Word. I have spoken to technical support at Nuance (the company that manufactures the software) a couple of times, the initial workaround they gave me was to turn off some kind of speech recognition feature built into Word 2007 but it unfortunately didn't solve the problem. But this time lag is proving a real annoyance. It obviously still recognises what I'm saying during the time it is frozen, as once it starts up again, it will perform all the actions/enter all the text that I have dictated in the meantime.
The main problem is that Dragon NaturallySpeaking seems to freeze very frequently, and will only start to work again after around a minute.
I recently started working with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 10 (the Dutch version, where you can set up profiles in English, German, French and Dutch, Version 10.10.000.334), which I use in combination with Translators Workbench (SDL Trados Translators Workbench 8.2.0.835).