Please read here why I do not recommend the built-in microphone of your laptop. It’s not a matter of how good or expensive the mic is, it is just important that your microphone is suitable for Dragon. Please be aware that a good quality mic isn’t automatically suitable or use with Dragon. A suitable microphoneĪnd you will need a suitable microphone for use with speech recognition
If you’re interested, you can read about my upgrade adventures here. a fast main disk improves the performance for your entire system and Dragon profits from this much more than I had anticipated.
So I went on a quest for a better English Windows PC and accidentally discovered the advantages of having an SSD as your main disk rather than than a traditional hard disk. And that despite the i7 processor and 8 GB RAM. My English language Windows computer was getting quite long in the tooth and had increasingly poor performance. The newer computer is faster, but the previous one works very well with Dragon.īoth are more than the minimum requirements that Nuance has set out for Dragon and my advice is to get the fastest processor and most RAM that you can reasonably afford.Īs I run a business in the Netherlands as well as internationally, I have multiple computers.
My previous computer – a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet, which I still use quite often, has Windows 10, Processor i7 with a speed of 1,9 GHz and 8 GB RAM. Windows 10, Processor is Intel i7-7700, 3.6 GHz 4 cores and 16 GB RAM. Since Dragon is such a processing-intensive program, you will need a computer with sufficient system resources. Let me tell you the system properties of my computer: You'll configure your recorder, read text into it and connect it to your PC, transfer your recording to the computer and let Dragon train your User Profile.Read my updated advice for the best computer specs for Dragon here Next, a series of screens will guide you in creating an acoustic sample from which Dragon will learn: When you are prompted, select the appropriate device:
If you don't have an existing user profile or want to maintain a separate user profile for the device using a digital recorder or other device as a recorder, open Profile > New User Profile from the DragonBar. To add the Dragon Remote Microphone application to an existing profile, open Profile > Add Dictation Source to Current User Profile from the DragonBar. As Dragon learns from your corrections and new words you add, these improvements will be available to both devices. Once you add a new dictation source to a user profile, you can then switch between devices (for example between a headset microphone and a recorder). Using an existing user profile lets you take advantage of the refinements Dragon has already made to that user profile. If you already have a Dragon user profile, you can add a recorder to that profile.