Scott, What benefit you get from Dragon will depend on more than word recognition accuracy. There's also how you work, the material, program input and editing for your purpose. Back 30 odd years, I used a service to transcribe field notes and preliminary report drafts from tapes. Later, I tried the first Dragon and a competitor for similar duty. Human transcription was better than computer, but computer comparable and much faster to train to unfamiliar technical terms and material. Where input to Legacy is essentially form filling, you will probably be faster doing it directly. If your material is basically facts in your notes which need reordering and presenting with discussion, then dictation to Dragon is attractive, but what you see (notes) is not what you speak. You may need to mentally convert ad remember what you see to new sentences or paragraphs before speaking. Editing the transcription may not be simply correction of mistranscribed words, and computer goofs are not necessarily like typos, almost what you meant, so surprisingly disruptive of continuity of thought. Where transcription is just straight copying, as from a newspaper article, other large text block, or notes already organized close to final form, then expect Dragon to work well after training.
If cost is a factor, you might do well to look for a free program or commercial with a free test opportunity, and perhaps consider waiting for the seminar, so you don't learn bad habits working on your own. kb ----- Original Message ----- Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
