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SIMULTANEOUS USE OF DNS
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Now that Nuance has updated most of its DNS languages to work under Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Dragon NaturallySpeaking versions 9.5 and above), it turns out that there is no clash between DNS and Windows Speech Recognition (WSR). Both can work in turns. To switch from the one to the other requires only turning off the microphone of one application and turning it on on the other. This co-habitation makes it possible to dictate truly multilingually into the same document without having to change the display language of the computer, or having to switch to a different computer user, as required by WSR (see my document “Multilingual Use in Windows Vista” on my speech website). Such cohabitation exists already under Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003, but people may find the applications to be more well-matched under Windows Vista and Windows 7. People who need frequent multilingual use, namely parallel rather than serial use of different languages, may find this the only viable option as long as Microsoft does not offer a more reasonable management for language switching. Such people would certainly find it imperative to purchase DNS even if they’re not current users of it. |
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There is, however, a minor bug when switching from DNS to WSR. Instead of inserting the dictated text into the open document, WSR opens the correction dialogue with the list of alternate texts as if it were an incompatible application. To resolve that, try to say before you begin dictating “switch to MS Word”, or open a brand new document, dictate a few words, and switch back to the first document to continue dictation. |
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