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Dragon compatibility with Fluency - yogamom

Posted: Mar 05, 2014

Does anyone use Dragon Naturally Speaking with Fluency?

Haven't used it with Fluency, but... - I love my Dragon

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Sorry for the long post. I was just excited to see someone else who uses Dragon for transcription purposes!

I use it in Citrix, EditScript, my instant messenger, for my emails, and of course in Word, among other things. I couldn't live without my Dragon. I use it for everything, but I primarily got it a year ago because I'm too old to sit here and type 8 hours straight and too old to try to find another line of work that didn't involve crippling my hands, neck, and back. I did have to configure some setting to make it work in Citrix and other things that aren't strictly Word, etc., but I can't remember exactly what that was now. Sometimes, however, I prefer typing in Word and then copying and pasting to Citrix, so if you have that option and can't get it to work in Fluency, you could do that instead. The program is made by Nuance, however, so I would be willing to bet it would work with Fluency.

You probably could Google it or even go directly to Dragon's help site and ask them there how you need to fine-tune it to work with Fluency. I think they may have a live chat or perhaps an email contact where you can ask these questions. They responded to me fairly quickly via email when I had a question about something else one time.

All I know is that since I got Dragon and spent several weeks training it, my productivity has skyrocketed. I can even sit here and fold laundry while I am repeating what the doctor said into my microphone and letting Dragon type it out. If you listen to the entire sentence the doctor is saying and then mentally remove all the stammering and correcting they do, by the time you say it aloud into the mic, it's going to type it out exactly as it should appear, depending on your client's account specs, proper grammar, etc., and you aren't forced to hunt and peck for the backspace and delete keys like you would if you were typing along with the speaker.

Hope this information helps you. The scary thing about this is if the doctors took the time to train their Dragon or any other speech recognition program like I have done, there will no longer be a use for us at all. The good news is most doctors don't have the time nor do they have the grammatical savvy to be able to do this, at least hopefully not until I retire in about 10 years. Good luck!

some more good stuff - I love my Dragon

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So that no one thinks I just blindly dictate what I'm hearing in my headphones and then send reports on their merry way... I do have to have my eyes on the screen and review what Dragon types out. It's not magical like that ;) Even a year later, there are terms it doesn't know and I have to teach it, but those are far and few between now. Sometimes, I might slur a word or like the day I hit my knee on my desk turning in my chair... Dragon was really confused with what came out of my mouth, lol. When the kids get home after school or the phone rings or maybe I'm just talking to the dog, I have on many occasions looked at my screen and realized that Dragon just typed out my entire conversation, complete with the foul language I used at a bill collector on the phone, lol.

So for anyone out there wanting to try this out, you do have to be ULTRA careful about turning off the mic if something else is happening in the background and you do have to make sure what shows up on the screen is what you intended. I paid for the Premium version 12 and it was well worth it. The Premium version has a lot more options for tweaking, saving, and backing up or exporting your voice files. You don't ever want to lose the training you've done, so I would invest in the Premium version. That's my two cents ;)

Dragon - just me

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Congratulations - as my mentor always said "work smarter not harder."

:) - I love my Dragon

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Well, after 24 years, my body was telling me I had to do something different. I can still type 140 wpm, but it kills me and then I don't feel like doing anything else once I've clocked out. Life should be more than that, you know?

Gosh, I should go to Dragon's website and "testify" about how much this product has saved me in musculoskeletal pain! On second thought, I'm not a fan of Nuance at all. Worked for them once and have seen MTSOs sucked up by them one by one. I owned the very first Dragon program eons ago, but it didn't work like I wanted it to back then. So kudos on the improved Dragon, Mr. Nuance, but boooo on the way you treat your employees.

Just a question - sm

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How is that going to work with the ASR output that is already there? F11 or delete it, use Dragon in Word and copy and paste into Fluency? There are so many dictators I would just love to use Dragon for. If you get it to work, please come back and tell us.

I use it mainly for an all-typing account - I love my Dragon

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When I work on my eScription (ASR) account, I don't use it as much, but it does save a lot of time if I need to jump to something that I see is incorrect, because I can command it to jump to that section rather than using the jump keys (ALT K, etc.), then I just replace the words that are incorrect with my voice. It comes in very handy on the rare occasion I get a job in eScript that has to be typed from scratch too. I sometimes don't use it at all if I'm tired of wearing my headphones when I'm forced to work in eScription (which is my secondary account).

As far as typing in Word and copying to Fluency, it all depends on whether you can copy from Word to Fluency. I've never used that program. I can't copy from my Word to eScription, nor can I copy from eScript to the internet when I need to look up a word or drug. I don't know if that's just a problem on my end with Word settings or not. I used to be able to do that before I started working at TransTech. If you can type in Word and copy/paste it over to Fluency, then you could use Dragon for all your needs. Holler back if you need more information ;)

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