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Transcription Aid

A new dimension in speech recognition:
TranscriptionAid for Dragon NaturallySpeaking!

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Do you use Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Professional?
Now, for the first time ever, you can:

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Ask a secretary to correct your transcriptions, by comparing the play back of your voice recording with the text transcribed by the application in perfect synchronisation, when pressing a footpedal

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Delegate also in a secretary the crucial task of improving your own User speech files, when she corrects the transcriptions, to increase your accuracy when dictating even further

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Transcribe automatically recordings from a dictation application in your PC, any digital recorder whatever their make, and even Pocket PC PDAs, and treat the results as in points 1 and 2

What is Transcription Aid?
Transcription Aid is the only existing application specifically designed to aid in the correction of voice recognized texts by Dragon NaturallySpeaking, by carefully and automatically synchronizing playback of the original voice recording with the recognized text file with the help of a foot pedal (or function-keys or mouseclicks), just like a traditional transcription machine! In this way, any secretary can correct and edit a dictation in the absence of the executive that generated it.

  • After many years of research and development, Speech recognition has finally come of age. Currently, any user with
    good dictation habits can get impressive results in terms of both ease of use and productivity. Accuracy rates of up to 98%
    with very little training --a few hours-- are no longer a science-fiction issue!

  • However, it is evident that speech recognition has not yet successfully penetrated the corporate and public
    administration market, where secretaries very often regard the technology as a potential competitor. This is partially
    due to the fact that publishers of speech recognition applications have traditionally concentrated their tremendous
    efforts in improving the accuracy rate of the engines (raw performance), rather than in facilitating the hard transcription
    and editing work that follows any digital dictation (ergonomics).

  • Enter Transcription Aid™, the revolutionary application that simply changes the terms of this equation --raw performance
    versus ergonomics: an incredibly intuitive and easy-to-use interface for transcription and editing purposes, controlled
    with equal facility using a foot pedal, function keys, or mouse clicks, and supported by the most advanced speech
    recognition engine currently available --Dragon NaturallySpeaking™. This leads to immediate and outstanding
    increases of productivity and comfort for secretarial work. The transcriptionist will simply read the file made by Dragon
    within the Transcription Aid™ interface and, whenever an illogical word or phrase is spotted as a consequence of a
    misrecognition, press the foot pedal --or function key, or click mouse -- to hear the pronunciation of the person that
    generated the file!

  • Moreover, the application accepts the sound input generated not only by anyone dictating into Dragon
    NaturallySpeaking™ and saving the corresponding files --in ".dra" format--, for later correction and editing by
    a secretary, but also any other ".wav" file generated with a dictation application in a PC, a digital recorder,
    a Pocket PC PDA and even a Smartphone.

  • Transcription Aid™ is so simple to use for correction and editing of transcriptions made with Dragon NaturallySpeaking™,
    that it will very quickly conquer the heart of secretaries . It really has the full potential of widespread use of this
    fantastic speech recognition engine in corporations, hospitals and public administrations.

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MAIN FEATURE
Transcription Aid® version 2.xx
NaturallySpeaking® DragonPad (the "Extras toolbar") - version 7
TRANSCRIPTION OF VOICE RECORDINGS
Automatic detection and conversion of virtually any digital voice recording file format, for transcription
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Transcribe from a digital recorder
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Transcribe from a Pocket® PC
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Transcribe from a Palm® PDA
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NO (YES in version 8)
Transcribe from a Sony Cli©®
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Transcribe from a MP3 with voice recording capabilities
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Transcribe from a Windows Mobile® Smartphone
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User defined Font Type and Size by default, when working with non RTF files
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Keeps User defined Font Size after pressing Return and along the whole document
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Use to get back to the default Arial 10
PLAYBACK OF TRANSCRIPTIONS
Play the transcription forward
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Play the transcription backward
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"Slow" and "Fast" playback speed
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Full control of Playback (forward and backwards) as well as the Correction window, with a plug and play footpedal
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Automatic Rewind, Playback “X” words and Stop function
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Automatic Play forward “X” words and Stop function
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Control of other useful playback functions with keyboard shortcuts and ad hoc icons
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Change the color of the text when playback is done, for easy visual tracking
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Accepts a much larger number of utterances for playback in "deferred correction" mode of "*.dra" files and voice recordings (depending basically on the amount of RAM memory and disk space available)
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Limited to 100 only, according to ScanSoft’ Technote 3744
Processing (insert corrections, resume playback, etc.) of very long utterances (phrases without pauses between the words), usually generated by the author when reading very fast or dictating "on the fly" outside of the office
(*) Represents the processing speed of a given computer in relative terms
5x(*)
(*) Represents the processing speed of a given computer in relative terms
1x (*)Painfully slow with utterances of more than 300 characters in standard computers, which make its use virtually impracticable in these cases
(*) Represents the processing speed of a given computer in relative terms
Playbacks a whole transcription generated with Dragon and within Microsoft Word®
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Playbacks only the first few lines and then, the last ones
USER FRIENDLINESS
Advanced User profile management (Open User, Copy to User and Copy from User) from within the application with "smart" features (i.e. checks for the date of the User profile before copying)
 
 
Automatic identification of the User profile used to generate a given "*.dra" file at the moment of opening it for correction, alerting the transcriptionist if it is not the correct one and refusing to implement the aforementioned action (to avoid corruption)
 
 
Informative on-line and optional tips to guide unexperienced transcriptionists
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On-line Help/Manual on all aspects of transcribing from any voice recorder, correcting the transcription and improving the User (author) Speech files
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CORRECTION FACILITIES
Footpedal selection of 1, 2 or 3 words (backward or forward) for correction, immediately after the misrecognition is detected and when playing back the transcription
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Only allow for selection of the full utterance, in the Correction and/or Spelling box, slowing down the work of the transcriptionist substantially
Automatic detection of possible playback "sound dropout" when selecting and correcting across an utterance boundary
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Not needed, because selection of full utterances only
OTHER INTERESTING FEATURES
One free upgrade included in the price
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Number of licences of Dragon NaturallySpeaking® required (for the author PC and the transcriptionist PC)
One only (on condition that the transcriptionists use all these features to correct exclusively with the footpedal, keyboard and mouse, and without creating a new Speech file)
Probably two (is difficult to correct only with the keyboard and mouse, without creating a new Speech file, in the absence of most features)

 
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Limited time offer: Buy it now and receive Office Ready Pro for free with purchase of any online accessory. ($79.95 value)
System Requirements:
Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M/Centrino and above or AMD equivalent
512 MB Ram
500 MB Free hard disk space
Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, or Me
Sound Blaster 16-bit sound card or equivalent
CD-ROM drive
Conditions of Sale / Return Policy:  All products are backed by our 30-day guarantee against defects by the manufacture's warranty. Return requests must be authorized by PCS (RMA#). All returns must be within 30 days from the date of purchase with original receipt. All returns must be complete as sold in original packaging and condition with all accessories and paperwork. Returns must include RMA number. Returns could be subject to a 20% restocking fee. No refunds on software, All sales are final.

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