Dragon Systems NaturallySpeaking 4.0 Professional cont'd:

Text To Speech Performance

Dragon's text to speech will only read text inside the the Dragon dictation window and is otherwise generally unavailable for use in other applications, a distinct minus. The inability to read from an e-mail program could be a particular disadvantage for some users.

Its audio performance is only fair by comparison to, say, IBM ViaVoice. The sense of phrasing is a little choppy with a somewhat British slant in words like "schedule" or "beta". Some common acronyms are mispronounced when they are in capital letters but OK in lower case. Some acronyms are unexpectedly spoken as full word phrases. The acronym "SQL," for example, is spoken as "structured underscore query underscore language." URL's and e-mail addresses were often badly done. The plural sound of "dollars" is omitted when pronouncing something like "$695" with "dollar" being used instead.

Within the NaturallySpeaking dictation window, there is a wide range of options for selecting the text segment to be read. That made using the text to speech as a way to audio proofread documents smooth. It was easy to pause the speech using a key stroke, make corrections and resume the speech from the point of correction. As yet, no vendor makes it possible to interrupt speech playback using voice commands; keystrokes are always required.

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