thanking

Using Dragon as an aviation security consultant, so I get some interesting "errors" when meandering among technology terms, legislative and regulatory bureaucratese, aviation-talk and acronyms, all while trying to remember not to curse, and then not be able to find which bad words are  hidden in the body of text.  More cursing.

Once you get the hang of it, and how to teach it to recognize your own special lingo, it's terrific.

I've gradualy upgraded from the first Dragon available in New Zealand to the Professional 10 but still have recognition problems.  In the mornng until about midday the Dragon is quite good.  From midday to about 4 pm it is very poor then picks up again in the evening.

 I dare not send a letter immediately after writing it.  Usually leave it until the next day when I pick up errors I do not see after using the Dragon.  The worst was a few years ago when some Forestry men put me up for the night in a mountain hut.  I wrote and thanked them for their hospitality.  The Dragon playfully wrote "hostility!" I had said "hospitality and that is what I saw when I glanced over my letter.  Sadly I did not see the error until some months later when the men had gone and I was unable to apologise.

I don't need Dragon Medical for a psychiatric practice as most of the dictation is non-medical jargon. But there are times when misrecognition is downright comical (or ironic). Risperdal, an often used antipsychotic medication, has shown up several times as Ross Perot.

I certainly agree that Dragon can lead to some terrible faux pas, such as someone coming into the office and talking to me which then gets dictated into and e-mail ready to be sent.

I certainly would agree that it is essential to turn dragon off and then very carefully go through correspondence before sending it.

Of course this applies equally as well for typing when some spellcheckers may substitute the wrong word with a quick flick of the mouse.

I would love to have the time to go through and delete all the words I am never likely to use, such as Senate Keillor and a myriad of phrases associated with American culture as in New Zealand we talk of keelers being sailboats with a keel.

Kind Regards

Anthony Lealand

Firework Professionals Ltd

As a user since 2.0 of preferred, I am still waiting for good "postal code" in Canada support. It was there at one time in the past (version 7.0?).

To Anthony and Paul :

As a DNS user for a number of years, I learned early on that once I finished dictating a document the best way of proofing was to highlight one or two paragraphs of the document at a time, then just say "READ THAT" and then just sit back and let amarican Jennifer read back my dictation to me. This way I can immediately hear and pick up on any misrecognised word as well as any missed punctuation, like commas which help make a sentance make sence.