program. NaturallySpeaking assigned the letter “a” to letter “a” and “z “ to letter “z”, making it user friendly. This program also accomodates to any accent, dialect or any personal pronunciation that my be spoken by the individual. NaturallySpeaking has an active vocabulary of 30,000 words. These include the most common words and names of the English language. The Vocabulary Builder Tool allows the user to customize the active vocabulary with the words that are used most often. There is also a back up dictionary that contains more than 240,000 words that can be easily attained by simply typing the first few letters. A new word can always be added by spelling the word and saying it once. The back-up dictionary can be used for more than just a spelling aide. In order to maximize correct recognition, it contains speaker independent language usage and acoustic information. Two of the many convient editing functions are “select and say” and Dictation Shorthand. The user simply say “select” and then state the phrase or word that needs editing. This eliminates the on screen curser navigation or specific screen direction commands required by otyher speech products. This allows the user to focus on the work at hand, not the PC controls and commands. Other frequently used editing may be achieved by saying the phrases , “Bold that”, “Change font size”, “Change margins”, and “Underline that”. Dictation Shorthand is a tool that allowsthe user to dictate an abbrevation of a word while the program will type the full text. An example of this would be the spoken phrase “Triple A”. The NatruallySpeaking program would automatically provide the text on screen as “American Automobile Association”. Applications of NaturallySpeakingThe Dragon NaturallySpeaking’s user-friendly concept...
