Can I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to transcribe interviews or meetings?
No, Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a speaker-dependent system, meaning that it trained to recognize the voice of a single user and cannot distinguish speech from more than one speaker. People have no problem understanding both Aunt Grace, who has a high, thin voice, and Cousin Paul, who has a voice like a foghorn, because people can easily adjust to the unique characteristics of every voice. Speech-recognition software, on the other hand, works best when the computer has a chance to adjust to each new speaker. The process of teaching the computer to recognize your voice is called “training.
