olution through its reasearch and development efforts. Through the work of this company, voice speech technology has become not only a reality, but a standard part of the computing industry. Dragon Systems was co-founded by Dr. James Baker and Dr. Janet Baker in 1982 and is one of the largest speech recognition organizations in the world. With their team of experts, Dragon Systems builds systems for every aspect of life, from governmental use to student use. The company employees approximately 250 people all across the world. The company is well known for their history, with several patent and technological breakthroughs. NaturallySpeakingA breakthrough product that is practical and unique in many ways is NaturallySpeaking. As the name suggests, this program allows the user to speak in a normal and natural pace. This techinique is called “true continuous speech”. In the past, programs required a form of “descrete speech”, which ment users had to pause for a predetermined about of time between each word. NaturallySpeaking allows users to speak over 100 words a minute. This program records your voice in order to learn and recognize the user’s speaking pattern. Many voice recognition systems require long amounts of time dedicated to reading word lists in order t record your voice. NaturallySpeaking includes a form of entertainment in it’s voice programming. The user can choose to read Dave Barry’s book Dave Barry in Cyberspace, or the futuristic novel 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark. Another attractive feature of NaturallySpeaking is it’s accuracy rate. With regular use and minimal training, users can receive 95% or even higer accuracy rate. No other company around the world has been able to match this. Other programs confuse the user by assigning each letter of the alphabet a special name. Users would have to memorize these names in order to use the ...
