If you have a disability-related requirement for DragonĪfter an assessment of their study needs, students with disabilities may have Dragon provided for them via the Disabled Student Allowance from their funding body (e.g. Currently the most economical way of purchasing Dragon Naturally Speaking is direct from a reseller that specialises in sales to higher education (e.g.
Instead, the software is licensed to individual users who purchase a licence. The University does not have a site licence for Dragon. The Professional version provides functionality to transcribe recordings, create custom commands and import specialist dictionaries from companies such as Medincle and Spellex to improve the recognition of complex terminologies used in subject areas such as medicine, law and science.ĭragon is only available for Windows and can be relatively expensive to buy. As it does not use online servers, your personal data is kept private.ĭragon software is available in ‘Home’ and ‘Professional’ versions. The processing is done on your PC, so you need a fast computer with at least 8GB RAM for to work well. It is not designed to recognise multiple voices, so is not suitable for transcribing interview, lecture or meeting recordings.
It can be used to control your entire PC by your voice.
Change all instances of the speaker’s name by ticking the change all box.Click in the speaker’s name box or the transcription text box to edit the content.Select the Edit transcript section icon to correct any issues in the transcription or create more meaningful labels for the speakers.In the Transcribe pane, hover over a section you want to edit.
The transcription tool identifies and separates different speakers and labels them "Speaker 1," "Speaker 2," etc. You can relabel the speaker names and correct any errors in the transcript recognition. The relevant transcript section highlights as it plays. You can also select the timestamp of any transcript section to play that portion of audio.
You can use the controls at the at the top of the transcribe pane to playback the audio, skip forwards and skip back and change the playback speed. Once processed, your transcript will appear in the Transcribe pane alongside the Word document.