Speech Recognition Ware Launches Transcription Aid

Speech Recognition Ware announced the launch of Transcription Aid for Dragon NaturallySpeaking. This new software increases the productivity of Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

Speech Recognition Ware concentrated their R&D efforts for the last five years on solving the ergonomics of the correction and learning process of the speech recognition engine. The result is Transcription Aid, an interface for third-party correction and editing. It can be controlled with equal facility using a standard foot pedal, function keys, or mouse clicks.

Additionally, Transcription Aid makes it possible to delegate the task of improving the Dragon user's voice profiles, without the user even being there. By separating dictation, transcription/correcting, and self-learning, each task is put where individual skills and computing power are maximized.

The secretary reads the file transcribed by Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional with the Transcription Aid interface. Whenever an illogical word or phrase due to false recognition occurs, a press of the foot pedal, function key, or mouse-click enables the secretary to hear the pronunciation of the person that dictated the document in synchronization with the transcription, correct it, and improve the speech profile all at the same time.

Transcription Aid not only accepts the sound input generated by someone dictating directly into Dragon NaturallySpeaking, it also identifies and converts all major sound formats for automatic transcription of voice recordings. It can use digital voice recordings from virtually any application or digital mobile device such as a digital recorder, PDA (Pocket PC, Sony Clié, Palm, MP3 Player with voice recorder, or even the Windows Mobile Smartphone GSM).

Useful built-in macro commands provide playback of the voice recording with mouse clicks or a foot pedal. Playback is both forward and backwards and at variable. Transcription Aid also resolves some of the issues affecting NaturallySpeaking versions 6 and 7 when dictating directly into Microsoft Word.