# Anyone use Dragon Naturally Speaking (lately)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 9, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-dragon-naturally-speaking-lately/440682 "2008-03-09T03:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-dragon-naturally-speaking-lately/440682/1 "2008-03-09T03:20:15Z")
Word on the street is that you can, with many digital audio recorders, copy your recording to your computer, feed it into Dragon Naturally Speaking, and have DNS spit out the transcription as a text file. Has anyone played around with this functionality? Or DNS 9 in general? If so, how is accuracy on DNS these days? Also, do you still need to speak your punctuation and line breaks, or does it somehow (miraculously) figure that out on its own? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-dragon-naturally-speaking-lately/440682/2 "2008-03-09T15:22:04Z")
I don’t use it heavily, but I have seen it and it’s noticeably more accurate than version 8 (which was already pretty good). Someone with more experience will have to give us more info… ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-dragon-naturally-speaking-lately/440682/3 "2008-03-09T15:31:04Z")
I got DNS 9 when I was dealing with CTS a few months ago. It works reasonably well (quite good when surfing the net.) I did not have any need for the transcription feature so I can’t help you there. The biggest obstacle I found was conflict noise. The phone ringing, someone knocking on your door, etc. If you interrupt the flow of your dictation it requires some focus to get back in the rythm. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-dragon-naturally-speaking-lately/440682/4 "2008-03-10T22:51:24Z")
[QUOTE=ratatoskK] I don’t use it heavily, but I have seen it and it’s noticeably more accurate than version 8 (which was already pretty good). Someone with more experience will have to give us more info… [/QUOTE] That is encouraging. I think maybe I’ll pick it up and hope it lives up to the hype. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-dragon-naturally-speaking-lately/440682/5 "2008-03-11T16:39:58Z")
I’m using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 to dictate this. After a bit of training, I found that the success rate is almost 100%. I’ve been using voice recognition software almost since it began, and this is the first version I found that really does work. Up to this version you spent so much time making corrections that it was hardly worth it. This version does have a facility to automatically enter punctuation marks such as commas and full stops, and it’s pretty accurate, but I don’t often use it as I prefer to dictate them. Interestingly, I have a cold at the moment, and it interpreted commas as combos!