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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:52:32 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>to me perhaps the biggest drawback of naturally speaking is that its macro
>capabilities are really a band aid. Unlike DragonDictate where the macro
>capabilities are well integrated into the system naturally speaking has
>added them on.
>
>Also unlike DragonDictate the tracking functionality is not present in
>naturally speaking. This functionality is one of DragonDictate's most
>powerful features because it allows you to utilize most software packages
>(well at least ones written well enough so that they register the names of
>their pull down menus and buttons with the Windows subsystems) *without*
>having to create macros by hand. Tracking reads the menu names and button
>names back and automatically creates the macros. This makes upgrading
>software versions easier as well. The lack of the tracking functionality
>means that to utilize naturally speaking with other software you must
>program the macros by hand which is time consuming the first time. If you
>upgrade versions you may need to reprogram your macros as well.
>
>Presently I'm using a two audio board system with DragonDictate on one board
>and naturally speaking on another. This allows me to manipulate naturally
>speaking from DragonDictate like any other program. Actually though I still
>mostly use DragonDictate for dictation. I personally haven't gotten
>comfortable yet with continuous dictation. I also find that naturally
>speaking's correction mode is cumbersome when you have limited typing
>capabilities.
>
>I'm probably still going to hold out for Dragon Systems to realize that the
>recognition engine of naturally speaking combined with the command and
>control functionalities of DragonDictate would make an unbeatable product in
>that it would really truly allow total hands free control of your computing
>environment. I'm sure they'll get there. Probably just not quick enough
>for those of us who have been around their products for a while and see the
>potential they have yet to achieve :-).
>
>
> Jay
>
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>Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalt's
>
>This is a key free document, no keyboards were harmed in its creation.
>(The DragonDictate and NaturallySpeaking speech recognition systems, and the
>CIC handwriting recognizer was used to generate this message)
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