John D. Toppins wrote:
Bob Long wrote:
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Paul,
Thanks for that information. Just to clarify, are you saying that
Dragon was able to be used to dictate directly into OOo's Writer
program? That is, without having to go through some intermediary
process like Microsoft's NotePad or Wordpad and then copy-and-paste
into OOo?
[...]
Paul replied directly to me, without replying to the list, it seems.
So, for completeness, he said:
Yes, I use Dragon to "dictate" directly on the OO's word processing
program.
There are no intermediate steps whatsoever. That part of it is smooth as
can be. (The snags come from the Dragon - I need to get more
sophisticated
at using the software but they are minimal at worst. I found some guy on
the internet who's really into Dragon and he suggests just getting a
better
microphone and sound card to improve the accuracy of the transcribing
process.) So as you said "that's good" !!!!!
When setting up and installing Dragon I didn't even come across anything
asking me to state what word management program I'm using - I just
installed
it and, after doing the initial set-up and training, started dictating by
opening my different patient's files. No problems! I just finished
an hour
or so of work on Dragon and all went well.
I have not tried to use Dragon to control menus yet - I'll let you
know what
I come up with whenever I give it a try.
Give Dragon a try for yourself - I bought the bare-bones version (I think
the fancier versions just have more trade-specific dictionaries and more
form letters in them) for $99 from a retail office supply store.
I hope this helps you and all other OO users - as you can tell I'm very
pleased!
Let me know if you have other questions, I'll be glad to help out.
Best,
Paul
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I use Naturally Speaking Preferred Version 8 on Windows XP and Dragon
complains that it is dictating into a "non-standard window" when I use
it in OpenOffice (1.1.5 or 2.0.1). Being in a non-standard window means
that you can't use voice commands to edit anything except the last
phrase. That is, under MS Word, I can say "select Jones" and it will
hunt through the document to find an instance of Jones. I can then
dictate "Smith" instead or tell Dragon to "correct" or "spell that." I
lose so much functionality dictating into OOo that I use MS Word for
that (and generally only for that). It is also possible to dictate into
DragonPad (like notepad) where all commands work, then cut-and-paste
into OOo paragraph by paragraph. Since I'm dictating reports which can
be 13-20 pages long and I have a number of styles set up, this doesn't
work for me.
Not a complaint, just information.
John T.
I also use Dragon from time to time in OOo 2.0.1 and it works. The major
drawback is that, as far as I understand, the program does not learn
from your corrections that you make if you don't use their in-built word
processor.
I usually dictate using their word processor DragonPad so that the
program learns and than cute-and-paste into OOo.
Frank
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