![]() In addition to increased accuracy, Dragon Dictate has the ability to learn words you use often, and nearly always handles proper names better than the Mavericks Dictation tool. Also, Dragon Dictate requires you to spend time training it before it will even work, so it has a much better idea of your voice and the way in which you speak. Dragon Dictate is a paid application with several years’ worth of development effort behind it. Although that difference might seem insubstantial, and although Mavericks still got a very high B, if you were to dictate a passage of 10,000 words, the text would have more than 1000 errors if you used Mavericks’s Dictation tool, versus about a third of that in Dragon Dictate. So the final accuracy scores were 96.6 percent for Dragon Dictate and 89.6 percent for Mavericks’s Dictation. It insisted on transcribing “class scored” as “classic lord.” Overall, it made nine mistakes. It too tripped on “expository,” but less hilariously than Dictation, writing “expositors” instead. In the end, Mavericks’s built-in Dictation tool made 28 mistakes.ĭragon Dictate had fewer problems but still made some mistakes of its own. For instance, when I said “detail,” it transcribed “D tell.” When I said “expository,” it heard “Expo is a Tory.” The program had particular problems with the sentence “Students must be jarred out of this approach.” I spent several minutes trying to get Dictation to transcribe “jarred” and “jar” correctly each time it transcribed them both as “John.” I also found it odd that Dictation refused to insert a space before opening quotation marks it failed to do so in every instance of my test. Mavericks Dictation’s errors were more frequent and more ridiculous, however. The results? Both programs made mistakes. The results from Mavericks’s built-in Dictation tool. I didn’t use my existing user profile in Dragon Dictate, in an attempt to make the playing field even. I ran through the passage three times in Mavericks, to iron out some kinks, and just once in Dragon Dictate. To assess that, I used both the Mavericks Dictation tool and Dragon Dictate to transcribe a four-paragraph, 268-word passage of text. Dragon Dictate doesn’t put words on the screen as fast as Mavericks’s Dictation, but the words it does put up are usually closer to the final transcription than in Dictation. ![]() Sometimes the screen gets so jumpy that it’s distracting. The words themselves and their order change as I get deeper into a sentence things keep switching around. What this means is that, in Mavericks’s Dictation system, words appear on the screen as I speak them, but in a disjointed way, as the system tries to figure out what I’m saying. We continually and instantaneously parse the words we hear based on context that’s how we know the difference between “ice cream” and “I scream.” Computers do much the same thing, but they aren’t as good at it. Dictation software doesn’t understand speech the same way humans do. Just using the two products is a different experience. I took a single passage of text and read it aloud to my Mac, first using Mavericks’s built-in Dictation tool and then using Dragon’s. And so I decided to put the two dictation systems to the test.
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