It is fine for Canadians to use the US English in terms of recognizing accents but what I find frustrating is that the spelling of words in Canada is traditionally closer to the English of England than to the US.  It gets tiresome constantly changing words like center to centre.  Using the UK English dictionary has other words that we traditionally spell more like they are spelled in the US.  I have tried changing the words in the dictionary, but it seems that some words just cannot be changed.

Over the past 15 years, we've trained many non-native speaking English users. The key to high accuracy is not necessarily your native language but that you enunciate words clearly and speaking phrases. On our website, we have three sound files on how to sound and how not to sound. Listen to these at:

www.emicrophones.com/.../index.asp

Marty Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc.

I know that English is not English ... when I bought Dragon the plan was to use it with a tutee who is bornin Canada, with English as a first language. His speech pattern, while it is a little unclear at times, is simply unique primarily. No amount of training has helped. Dragon does not recognize him. An unexpected, but welcomed benefit is my positive experience with Dragon. Are there things that I should be doing differently with my tutee?  

that is a funny (and important) topic to some of us.

I think Germans are told that when they use English, they should choose the Australian version.

I used to live in England, and then started working with Americans for years. Eventually I switched language profiles. Accent-wise, I am "foreign mid-Atlantic". I have some issues with accuracy, and it improves if I try to speak more American.

I am a fairly new Dragon 10 preferred user and despite having an Australian accent it works well with only a few problems when dictating text. I guess my biggest problem is that for work I need to use it to operate EXCEL and I find great difficulty in getting it to recognise movement instructions. The word that gives me the most trouble is "cell" which about half the time is recognised as "sell". This can make working very slow.....I tried training the word, training commands, deleting "sell" out of the dictionary but needless to say either it has not helped or - in the last case - corrupted the installation and crashed the product so I had to re-install it.

Has anyone any hints on how to improve voice recognition for something like EXCEL?

Actually, in MS Excel the word "cell" is used in such commands as "go to cell a1", or simply "cell a1", or "select cell a1 to cell b3", and so on. You can also use "move right one cell", "move down two cells", e.g.

The problem with recognition, however, usually occurs when you pause just a little too long between "cell" and the following letter/digit, but also if the specific letter isn't recognized as easy, which may happen very often. Then, Dragon will hear the word, but interpret it as "sell", "so", or whatever, because that's what it sounds like also, and deleting these words really isn't the way to go.

One way to make it easier for Dragon to understand what you want to do is using the so-called military alphabet here, in order to dictate the name of the cell you want to navigate to. So, using "(go to) cell charlie five" usually works better than "cell c5".

Nevertheless, although dictating into Excel really isn't as easy doing so with MS Word, for instance, and it takes a little practice, you will get there however if you try just hard enough.

Good luck

Dragoner

What about French? Do you have plans for other languages other than English ain't English? Thanks. Marie-Armande.

I have the nuance Dragon naturally speaking premium 11 version, but i want to add the spanish leanguage, as i've recently known it has appeared in the market for spanish speaking people. Can i download some app o dictionary to add to my data base?