Dragon teaches English in America
Dragon in hospitals
Above, two links. The first is to an article in Buisness Week and the second is an article from the Financial News.
The Buisness Week article is a review of Dragonal Natural Speaking voice recognition software, something I continue to be interested in. However, Buisness Week is not impressed. One thing in paticular that they point out that I agree with (although I am personally impressed with Dragon) is if you mumble and talk to yourself when you compute, you could be in trouble with this technology. I used Dragon 's basic package and found myself going back and deleting out many "doh"s "shoot"s and "gosh dang it"s.
Perhaps the more expensive packages are better, and it seems so because the second link is to how this technology is being promoted in hospitals as part of the new health care system according to the second link. Financial News reports that Nuance holding, the company behinde Dragon Natural Speaking, are in talks for a contract that will part of the new health care package. Hospitals would be required to use their software, so the higher end stuff must be nearly flawless. I think it is cool to think some of the same CALL we study, is also used in hospitals and law offices around the country.
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