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Dragon NaturallySpeaking is at forefront of revolution in speech recognition
Simson L. Garfinkel, The Boston Globe, 1997
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- What it is
- A Boston Globe technology column of November 13, 1997, in which Simson Garfinkel describes using Dragon NaturallySpeaking and contrasts it with the earlier DragonDictate product.
- How much weight it carries
- A contemporary newspaper column, reprinted on a personal site. It is good evidence of how the product was described and used in 1997, but it reports one writer's experience, not a test.
Facts taken from this source
- A 1997 Boston Globe columnist wrote that older programs, such as DragonDictate, forced users to pause between each spoken word.
“older programs, such as Dragon's DragonDictate, forced the user to pause between each spoken word” (Column text, second section)