I have no experience/knowledge about Windows Speech Recognition, but a US friend of mine did a comparison just the other day of Apple's in-built dictation vs Dragon: Dragon won by a *mile*.

The great thing about Dragon is that you can(*) train it to recognise your own accent. As someone who *isn't* from the US, this is one reason(*) why I haven't bothered trying Apple's in-built dictation at all. (Back in the day I did use its much simpler forebear, and was forever having to repeat "Scroll up", "Scrall up", "Scraaall up" in an attempt to get it to understand me.)

Deborah
(*) Or could, when I last used it before Apple upgraded their operating system and Dragon reasonably decided recoding their entire product wasn't worth it.
(**) The other reason is it uploads everything to the cloud to process it. Privacy aside, I'm old-fashioned enough to want my laptop to be a functional laptop, not a dumb terminal.



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Tricking is probably not an option here. What Dragon interacts with (i.e.
64bit system and programs) is probably your limiting factor.

Is there a reason Windows Speech Recognition wouldn't be an option?

Kyle

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022, 7:25 AM charles meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> My esteemed listmates,
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> I have a DVD disc of Dragon Naturally Speaking version 9.
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> When I load it in my DVD writer/player and it loads I get the message
> it wont run on a 64 bit PC.
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> Any work-arounds?
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> Can I “trick” W10 I into thinking it’s a 32 bit application?
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> I can’t find anyone who’s using dictation software but my doctor
> (bought the medical version of DNS years ago).
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> If I could find an older 64 bit version of DNS for sale, has anyone
> bought pre=owend software on a reliable site or vendor?
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> Where does pre-owned software go?
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> Thank you.
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> Charles.
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> Charles Meyer
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> Charlotte County Public Library
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> Port Charlotte, FL
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