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Dragon NaturallySpeaking uses a minimal user interface. As an example, dictated words appear in a floating tooltip as they are spoken (though there is an option to suppress this display to increase speed), and when the speaker pauses, the program transcribes the words into the active window at the location of the cursor.
Janet MacIver Baker is an American computer scientist, neuroscientist and entrepreneur. Along with her husband James K. Baker, they founded Dragon Systems and are together credited with the creation of Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
Along with his wife Janet M. Baker, they co-founded the Dragon Systems and together credited with the creation of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. [ 1 ] James Baker is an expert in speech recognition technology and a Distinguished Career Professor at Carnegie Mellon University .
The older program, DragonDictate, was originally developed by Dragon Systems for Microsoft Windows, and was replaced by Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows. It was later acquired by Nuance Communications. Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.0 (originally named MacSpeech Dictate [1]) is supported only on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
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Dragon Dictation started as speech recognition application for Apple's iOS platforms, including iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The app provided automatic speech-to-text capabilities. It was developed by Nuance Communications, and released in December 2009 as a free app. It is now commonly found licensed in vehicle infotainment systems and ...
In the early 2000s, there was a push to get a high-quality Linux native speech recognition engine developed. As a result, several projects dedicated to creating Linux speech recognition programs were begun, such as Mycroft, which is similar to Microsoft Cortana, but open-source.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking (also known as Dragon for PC, or DNS) [1] is a speech recognition software package developed by Dragon Systems of Newton, Massachusetts, which was acquired in turn by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Nuance Communications, and Microsoft. It runs on Windows personal computers.