Thanks a lot Tony! I'm just starting out a transcribing business on Fiverr and I have heard a lot about this program and your demonstration just helped me out a lot on deciding on which software to buy. Thanks!

Hi Tony. I searched on "Dragon talk to text" and this youtube video was the first hit. OMG, it was meant for me!! I grew up in Morganton and currently live in Claremont. Like you, I've tried talk to text software in the past with very little luck. Thanks for testing with our unique accent! I ordered it before your video was finished.

Thanks for that, Tony. I just bought the latest version, but have not opened it. It's nice to see that the regional dialect selection works pretty well. I'm an Atlanta born southerner who lives in Alabama. Add to that the fact that I'm 65, and you know it's going to be a challenge, but I think it just may work out. A shout out, too, for the Adobe Premier videos. I'm just beginning to us Premier and After Effects, so keep the tutorials coming.

I'm officially stunned. No one has ever complimented my accent. God bless you!

Excellent demonstration. I have a MS southern accent, and it's amazing that there are so many speech recognition software programs unable to transcribe a southern dialect. Normally, I would have to speak like a college professor to be recognized, but that's not my natural speaking tone. But after viewing your video, I feel like it's time to go back to the Dragon Naturally Speaking software. I had no idea this software had improved so much.

thanks for the video, my daughter and I have dyslexia and this will really help at work and school.

Yes. I do a lot of punctuation and numbers by hand and let the VR handle the text. It's getting better and better at following me. Almost flawless now.

I just thought of let you know I did get the Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 home, it is absolutely amazing I went through one training session and it hardly ever one word, unlike Microsoft speech recognition, I am totally impressed. Have a good one.

This video was exactly what I was looking for. It is amazing how this software understood you as accurately as it did with your accent. I'm completely impressed. Thank you for making this video. I am totally sold.

WOW ~ I just ordered Version 13 Premium right before I saw your video. I'm impressed. I'm a New York girl all my life and if you asked me, I don't think I have an accent, but others who don't live here, say I do ;) - THANK YOU for doing this! - I know that the software now transcribes mp3s on the PC, hoping it will do MP4 as well. If not, it's easy enough to pull MP4's into Camtasia and save the Audio to mp3. That's still beats me doing the transcription myself, which would probably never happen! - THANKS again for taking the time. I was glued to the screen for the entire video! GOOD JOB ~Roz Fruchtman

Actually when I did this video I had only done one 10 minute training session. Now that I've been using it for about 5 months it's pretty much spot-on with my accent. The software watches how you correct it. For instance if you speak a co-worker's name "Kristine Roberts" and it types "Christine Roberts", then you manually type Kristine, the next time you speak her name it types it correctly. I allowed the software to read my emails and contacts, etc. and that greatly helped too.

Luis - that's great news. Glad to have been a bit of help. It really speeds things up doesn't it? I use it every day. Really helps with productivity. Appreciate you watching!

All right. Glad to see a fellow Appalachian colleague on here!! We played Mitchell all the time. I went to Mtn Heritage way back. Bville!! Lived in CA for 23 years and back in Aville. Doing some podcasts and really want something to transcribe but looks like sending the audio's to transcription service will be my best bet. Keep up the good work Tony.

Thanks Tony! The thing that held me back from completing my memoir is the actual typing so if I can have this machine do it for me, Im excited! Be back with my experience! I did believe you were selling for the company but it doesn't matter, if it works, Im ok with that.

I am from New Jersey Tony,and understood every word you said,..so you're accent is not difficult to comprehend at all.

I have to say that he did an excellent job on the way that he introduced Dragon Naturally Speaking to the Medical field on this video. I look forward to seeing more demonstration videos on the product

And to answer Chris Thomas' question...I spoke "during the Jurassic period" and it did pick up on spelling out "period" and then I ended the sentence with "period" and it got that. But, you can't say "new paragraph" without getting a new paragraph. I guess you would have to type that in, manually, which is always an option. I can't think of a time that I would need to dictate "new paragraph", but that's just my line of work.

The way it works is it waits for you to pause before using punctuation. For instance, if you say, "during this period I lost 20 pounds" it doesn't type a period. If you say, "during this period I lost 20 pounds (pause about a second) period" then it types your sentence and adds a period at the end. Same holds true for comma, space, question mark, etc. It uses context to know when to allow punctuation. It works well too.

Hello Tony Lee I just want to thank you. After I watched your youtube video I decided by the software, and it works like you said I'm glad I came across your KZfaq channel. I'm actually using the software now to leave my comment, again I you want to say thank you keep up the good work thumbs-up.

Thanks Tony, I just bought the newest 13 version at a discount. So thankful. I need this.

You made my day - I never thought such software existed and, yes, you have a wonderful accent. Although, as I actually do live in Southern England my accemt is rather like Prince Charles - I am not sure that the software would pick it up unless it has a posh setting. Many thanks for an enjoyable demonstration and light-hearted video.

Very helpful! I'm getting a grant for software to use for University, and this helped me make up my mind which to go with... I only wish that your accent came with it, I'd love for it to speak back to me with your amazing accent!

I have a similar accent (Eastern Georgia) and would love to have a stenographer software program like this that works well with my speech patterns! Looks like it is working well for you, Tony! Thanks for sharing.

Very helpful, thanks. Now I will have to see if it works with a Scottish accent!

Great to have you back in WNC. I'll google you and check out those podcasts.

Sure glad it worked for you. Take some time to read those little usage tips that come up when you launch. Really helps you make it more functional. I'm getting better and better with it - you will too.

Great demo. Thanks for posting this. You've helped me make up my mind and perhaps the next comment I leave will be dictated. Scott

Thanks tony, I'm from the Bronx and people say I have an accent, forgetaboutit. I'm sold.

Actually you may consider it as the third input device apart from your mice and keyboards; the software will not affect the use of them at all.

Yes. It works really well if the person doesn't have a pronounced accent. I used the audio from a video recording of my CEO to create a news article several months ago. Dragon recognized probably 90% of her words - event though it had not been trained to understand her voice.

It's nice to see this video. I am young Electrical and Electronics Engineer who was thinking this morning of doing a project of voice recognition. I searched in KZfaq that there must be some developments done previously by someone. For my surprise, this voice recognition thing has already developed so much!! What improvements do this need? Any improvements that I can contribute? Can we add artificial intelligence to the system so that it recognizes all of the accents?

I like the idea of this software because it seems like you could create a long-drawn out paper in no time just by speaking it. But as robust as this software is, it seems like you have to go over the finished product with a fine tooth comb to find all the misinterpreted sentences it put together.

There's now an open source GNU/Linux speech recognition program that uses Google's voice APIs on the back-end called Palaver.

Unfortunately you are absolutely right. It's a memory hog. This demo was on a 6-core Xeon with 24 Gigs of RAM. I can't imagine how it would run on a laptop. Thanks for bringing this up. People need to know it requires some stout processing.

I just thought I'd let you know, I got and installed my Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12, and I'm very amazed, unlike Microsoft speech recognition Dragon rarely ever misses a word. Have a good day.

Wow, thanks a lot for your sharing on how you are using it. It seems I must do more training and improve my own pronunciation before I can speak as fast and accurate as you do.

I like your demonstration. love your accent :)

I am now using dragon 13. I also up graded to windows 10 "WoW", What a difference!.

This was a good review. It seems fairly similar to the speech to text software on my phone (android). Which I just so happen to be writing this coming with.

Wow, great review. Thanks for taking the time

I have a very plain Midwestern accent in northern Illinois. I do tire of seeing the TV commercials that put in commas and apostrophe-s and even new paragraphs without prompting. It's very misleading. Yes...you have to say the word period. You have to say comma, semi-colon, colon, "cap". It does not recognize possessive "s"...I have to say "apostrophe s". I'm running 12.5. It doesn't know most the towns I say. You did a lot better than I have done, when I've used this software for appraising reports.

You have to avoid um eh and those other thinking word place holders. The program does awesome. its and is was the only problem I saw, and where it completely ignored "um" Thanks for the review.

Believe me - Dragon will understand you. Just be sure to give it a training session. The installation process will walk you through all of it. I've tried the Windows voice recognition and it's as bad as Dragon used to be for southern inflection. Dragon has just recently "gotten it right" for folks who talk the right way - ha!

Thank you for sharing this, I'm going to try the dragon naturally speaking 12 home, I have been trying to use the windows voice recognition but it doesn't seem to catch most of what I say very well, I've spent many hours trying to train it, but at last I'm at an end with it, I think it's because of my Texas accent.

This makes it so much easier to do my high school papers.

Haven't tried it, but I don't see why not. It will type into virtually any text box - at least it does for these KZfaq boxes.

Does anyone know if this thing does a northeastern united states accent or should I use the australian version for best results? I really don't want to waste a ton of money on this thing if it's going to screw me over every chance it can get like my phone does.

I enjoyed this very helpful video and your accent as well. Thanks :-)

How do I know whether I need the Premium or the Home version?

Thanks Tony - That has helped me make a decision to purchase.

You'll be getting version 12 which is actually noticeably better than the version 11.5 that I review here. Be patient with it and train it up and you'll love it. I tried it back at version 8 and it was just awful. I'm guessing it didn't get 75% of what I said. Let it read your emails and documents (not a security issue) and it will recognize proper names and places that you are associated with too. It's cool. I use it every day. Still not perfect though. For me I'm guessing about 95% there!

can you show me tell me were to download then put it on start it and how to put word up to.

Dictalogic is also very good - it's got very good coverage for end to end work flow.

Seems like it helps to have a good multi-core system.

I like Dragon on my PC, having purchased it maybe three years ago. I bought a SamsungTabPro and don't understand how to install it. The Tablet is hard for me to use w/o Dragon, but so far, getting it installed is a mystery. Do I need to make a new purchase? Thank you.

Actually the headset that cam with this software did go bad on me. I bought another headset from Walmart for about $16 that works just great. I don't know about another mic, like an SM58 for instance. In theory I think it should work. Just whatever gets a good quality vocal signal to the soundcard should work.

can anyone tell me if this program transcribes in other languages ​​such as Portuguese in Brazil or only English ? ? Thanks for help !

Hmm - I guess you'd want to do that if you were like writing a book about how people in the south talk. You can easily create a custom library and add words, then associate them with your speech, so I guess yes. Post a video somewhere with the words or phrases you're considering and I'll do a video to test it.

Thank you very much, I went ahead and ordered it yesterday, I'm looking forward to trying to work with it. Have a good day And again thank you

Good job.

I need it for navigating webpages, scrolling up and down a page and selecting a hyperlink within a page. For example newspaper article with lots of links, how do you tell it to go to that link? There are links embedded in the article, there are ads, there are sidebars with links and icons which link to other sites/articles, there are lists of links down below the article, right down to small font links at the very bottom and there are menus with sub menus leading to different sections of the newsite and a searchbar for searching the site. There may be 50+ links on one page. How do you tell it to go to a particular link? (it may just be an image that is a link with no verbal description).

Like you, i am a graphic artist. I'm considering Dragon Premium. A question i have not found answered anywhere is: Can you call a command from the menu of the active application? So for example, in Photoshop i want to adjust Levels: Can i just say: "Image-Adjust-Levels"? Or "Control-L"? Also, can it invoke commands with more than one modifier key? Such as "Control-Alt-Z" to step back in history? Thanks, Tony!

Hello- thank you for the demo and review. In your experience, how does the Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 work for dictating code, bulleted notes and mathematical expressions? Many thanks!

just got the software myself becouse i have joint pain it needs to be trained for my voice

Not being a native speaker, I actually found this software quite hard to use, at least to begin with. I wonder if you get this wonderful smoothness right from the beginning, or after lots of teaching?

It looks as if you are using a PC. I loaded it on a MacBook and it seemed to be the culprit in causing a significant number of conflicts with Premiere Pro CS5. Do you have any idea if that has been addressed by any chance? I did find that it worked very well until the issue with PremierePro. I made a transcript of a CME program I did with 4 speakers from around the country and it was very good. I used the audio from the mixing board to train the softwarre for each speaker. BTW, I am from GA .

im using it on a laptop with i7 4700QM with 24GB RAM and it runs perfect.

I find it very hard to speak numbers on to wordpad.. I keep getting the literal number instead of the number "7," for example I keep getting seven..

Can I use the product in spanish?

I have used tried every version from #4 ( including their .5 versions). I brought, but haven't installed version 12. I too am using 11.5. The differences in the later version, from about #8 is that it will allow you to use without going thru the long raining sessions. I've found, if I go thru ALL of the training videos and upload docs based on how you think/compose There were a lot of competitors in the early days...but haven't seen many lately. As Tony stated, the more you train it the better it gets. Does anyone know of some one who have used/tried the pro version that a designed for career ( i.e. Medical, Legal, etc.) Thanks for the video.

Is this software compatible with the Sony tx50 digital recorder?

i wonder what i sound like and i am australian but sydney old settlers have a more heavy accent.

What is the difference between Basic vs Premium then Mobile and Wireless versions? there are too many confusing packages with a significant price difference. What would I miss in Basic as opposed to Premium that seem is ten times more in price?

nice information sir...

I hope they paid you for this...because if I buy it...it will be because of your demo! I love Spruce Pine!

Thank you amaya

we're can I get it cuz there lots

I use Dragon natural speaking Premium version 12, I do copy and paste into Microsoft notepad from websites or other documents that I want read. Being that I am dyslexic, Dragon is beneficial in that way. My question is I don't like the female voice that Dragon reads with. Can I get a male voice. The next question is there a way to record the read back voice?

Thanks for the demo. Have you tried the free Microsoft Speech recognition software? A comparison would be nice. Cheers.

Great video of showing the uses , i was wondering cause i used a friends before or similar program. Is there an option where it puts the punctuation's on its own?

En fait, je sais pas si vous comprenez en français ou pas, moi aussi j'ai vu sur internet que cette fonctionnalité est possible avec la version 10 mais normalement je dois trouver sur la barre de menus de logiciel l'onglet "son" et la je fais ,transcrire ou importer un fichier a transcrire mais le problème ce que j'ai rien trouvé

if I cannot read how do I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking

wow my daughter would love this she loves to do kids stories.. to bad its not free.

Can you work the keyboard while using the speech recognition?

how can i do this with the the version i already have ?the problem is that i've already seen inetrent and normally i have to find a tab called "sound "on the menu bar yet i didn't find the word "transcribe" and so i couldn't achieve the transcription of the the file needed

can you use dragon for chat rooms

Braina is a better speech recognition software.

this is tight!

This review is being dictated with Dragon naturally speaking version 13. Tony tries to give us a decent review here. However, his little lax about the structure and his wording. For example when he says "+ turns it on" that is not exactly right. Dragon is "turned on" just like any other application. One opens the application and the application is on. What the plus sign on your number pad does is turn the microphone on or off. Using the plus sign in your number bar will not do anything except cause Dragon to insert the "+" at the cursor. That does not sound like much of a distinction but when you are a novice trying to learn how to use Dragon it can be frustrating so every exact detail counts. Tony makes this same strategical air from time to time. Still his review does teaches some new tricks but don't take everything he says literally as sometimes you would just have to figure out what he is trying to say. Tighten up the ship a little Tony I think you would do great.

Does pretty well, considering the amount of twang in your voice.

CAN I USE NATURALLY SPEAK OR DO I HAVE TO BUY $1800 MEDICAL TO WORK WITH PRACTICE FUSION EMR

good,does it do grammar check after or is that done through word,thank you

sounds like a serious variant of jeff foxworthy

i have the version number 10 of the software " Dragon naturally speaking "is it possible to record an audio file via a tape recorder , for instance,and then transcribe it via the "dragon" software ??

What if you actually want to say/type "period"?

It might be illegal to record someone else's voice without his permission.

Im looking to integrate this software into some computer program that interacts with a mechanical machine, or some form of small network such as a house lights, TV, etc... Has anyone done anything like this.

Hi can is it possible to record lecture on my phone(android) and then convert them into text on my pc? Thank you

so what if you say "for a period of time" .. ect?

What if I want it to show the southern accent? Can it be trained to type it to sound like I speak?