Strategy: Dragon NaturallySpeaking for essay writing

10 Keywords: Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Dictation, Writing Essays, Essay, Dyslexia, Written Language, Vocabulary, Speech Recognition, Voice Recognition, Dyspraxia

Inspiration mind map "I used Dragon and transferred it into Word. I used Read & Write Gold and then printed it all off. And at the moment I am using Inspiration to do a presentation that I’ve got to give on Tuesday - no Thursday. So I am using Inspiration to do that. Then, I’m going to take information off Inspiration and then use Dragon to write the actual essay."

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The Inspiration mind map has an image of a man. Beneath him are the links to COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), John's Experience, Sleep Apnoea and Asthma.

"Dragon is the big difference in the way that I write, by the simple fact that what I’m putting on paper is what I actually want to put on paper... I’ve done 20-22 hours just reading pages from a book, so that it recognises and I can correct the faults on it and adding words to it. Especially medical words…I hope I am doing that right!"

Nuance user guides may help with set up and use of Dragon NaturallySpeaing

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"It’s not the typing that’s my problem. It’s really what I’m saying to what I’m writing. They are two different things... I have done another essay and handed that in, and the final result was much better than the previous one. Dragon is my main thing. That’s the whole point of the Dragon."

- Guenevere

Tip

Healthy Computing offer some tips for the safe use of speech recognition and tifaq.com provide advice about gaining the best recognition rates. Alan Cantor has provided a recent presentation on 'Voice enabling a web-based application - lessons learnt'.

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