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That task, where multiple speakers are talking colloquially with no punctuation, far from the microphone, is still too daunting a task.)

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(No, the program still canвЂ™t transcribe interviews no software can. The little yellow floating box, where a half-formed transcription used to appear before pouring the text into your document, is gone now a little Dragon cursor moves along with your text, and changes shape to indicate when itвЂ™s ignoring the incoming sound, like when you cough.ДЄnd if you have one of the 18 approved digital audio recorders, you can prepare NatSpeak for transcribing your voice recordings after only four minutes of training.

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If your PC has a multicore processor, NatSpeak divides up the recognition tasks to get better transcription results. In addition to вЂњsearch the Web for.вЂќ, вЂњsearch e-mail for.вЂќ, and вЂњsearch my computer for.вЂќ, you can now speak similar commands to search Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook and eBay. Version 10 introduced shortcut commands like вЂњSearch the Web for вЂsan diego pizzeriasвЂќ or вЂњsearch maps for 200 West 79 Street, New York, New York.вЂќ YouвЂ™d marvel as your PC flew into action, bringing up a Google search or Mapquest page for whatever you said. In other words, accuracy will now improve even for people who refuse to get with the program. But if they sound alike В— if you change вЂњbasic aberrationвЂќ to вЂњbasic operation,вЂќ say В— then the software concludes that youвЂ™re correcting a transcription error, and it learns. If you change text to something completely different (вЂњa hot dayвЂќ to вЂњa scorching afternoonвЂќ), the software assumes youвЂ™re just editing. So in version 11, Nuance did another sneaky thing if you manually edit something NatSpeak transcribed, the software compares the new phrase you type with what you originally said. For these people, accuracy never goes up. Instead, they just double-clicked the error and typed over it, depriving the software of the chance to learn. Unfortunately, to the companyвЂ™s great frustration, a certain percentage of NatSpeak owners never used the вЂњCorrectвЂќ spoken command to fix mistakes. You say вЂњchoose 2,вЂќ the program fixes the text, it learns from its mistake, and you go on. You say, вЂњcorrect вЂax a moron,вЂ™В вЂќ and up pops a numbered list of alternate transcriptions. Over time, your software is supposed to get better and better because each time it makes a mistake, youвЂ™re supposed to correct it with your voice. (I keep a file of favorite NatSpeak gaffes over the years В— вЂњthe right or leftвЂќ became вЂњthe writer leftвЂќ вЂњa case we summarily dismissedвЂќ became вЂњa case we so merrily dismissedвЂќ and вЂњoxymoronвЂќ once became вЂњax a moron,вЂќ which is often a tempting idea.) Heaven knows, itвЂ™s hard enough understanding other peopleвЂ™s speech even if youвЂ™re a human being. Now even first graders can be first-class speech citizens.Дictation software is not goof-proof it may never be. NaturallySpeaking has never handled childrenвЂ™s voices well, but thatвЂ™s changed, too. No problem I capitalized all occurrences afterward, with a single command.

That came in handy when I dictated something about Twitter, and Dragon consistently refused to capitalize it. In version 11, you can apply the same formatting (like bold, italic or underline) to every occurrence of a word or phrase in a document. You can open programs (вЂњopen FirefoxвЂќ), pick menu commands, click Web links, move the cursor, format text (вЂњitalicize вЂThe New York TimesвЂ™В вЂќ) and so on. It achieved 100 percent accuracy, even correctly nailing toughies like вЂњLinkedIn,вЂќ вЂњTwitterific,вЂќ вЂњfreebiesвЂќ and вЂњtwentysomethings.вЂќ (It made one error, but IвЂ™m letting it off the hook for not recognizing the Web site name Bebo.) I installed the software on my PC, skipped the training, and dictated one of my old columns, 1,300 words. The accuracy is so good that you no longer have to begin by reading a four-minute training text, as in years past.

Nuance engineers later exploited this gold mine, using it to test out new recognition algorithms to improve DragonвЂ™s accuracy.

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Its computers keep copies of those hundreds of thousands of dictated messages (no names attached, of course), creating an amazing central archive of American voices and speech patterns. You speak the companyвЂ™s computers in Boston analyze your snippet within seconds, the converted, typed text appears on your screen.Д«ut this was no altruistic move Nuance had an ulterior motive.

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More interesting is how it got there.Д«ack in December, Nuance began offering a free iPhone app, Dragon Dictation. Which is fine, if barely noticeable (how much better is a 15 percent gain when youвЂ™re already getting 99.6 percent accuracy?). Nuance says the new version is 15 percent more accurate.

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