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On the contrary, my issues with Dragon are not surrounding its recognition accuracy (though I would kill to be able to hook it up to whisper), but literally eve

On the contrary, my issues with Dragon are not surrounding its recognition accuracy (though I would kill to be able to hook it up to whisper), but literally everything else. - Running the accuracy tuning tool more than once actually degrades accuracy - User profiles will degrade over time, necessitating a export/new profile/import process every few months or else the accuracy becomes unacceptable - Does not work with electron applications that apparently fucking everything has to be nowadays - The browser plug-in… Dear God. It outright does not function properly on many top websites (Text input on twitter and twitch come to mind immediately), and it occasionally causes Dragon to slow down to an infuriating degree. Sometimes it actually causes certain sites to break! - Unstable. Crashes to desktop a couple of times per week, and leaves some appendage running in such a way that it can't be directly restarted. I had to write a PowerShell script (https://gist.github.com/Karunamon/f2b684d083fc341ee79aab1fb29cf3c5 https://gist.github.com/Karunamon/f2b684d083fc341ee79aab1fb2...) and put it on my start menu to deal with this.

rickydroll 3y ago
these are all very good points, very accurate and a common experience. 1) anyone who knows anything never runs accuracy tuning tool. 2) apparently user profile degrading is greatly reduced in version 16. Don't really know because I haven't migrated yet. 3) electron is a flocking abomination. I blame JavaScript and the HTML Dom. 4) I would not entirely blame the browser plug-ins. There is a boatload of JavaScript out there that does everything it can to fark up dragons need to look into a text area so can decide how to make things work. 5) that sounds more like a Windows, may be hardware problem. I haven't had a Dragon related crash (15.61) for more than a couple of years. Windows is a piece of shit but it's crash rate is also dropped. re: wisper oh I would love to have a good whisper environment on Linux that's a reasonable approximation of Dragon. What that means is ability to dictate into any window anywhere, the ability to edit the content in the window, and an extension that lets you add a grammar for commands (preferably based on Python) then I would be able to ditch Windows and tell Nuance to fark off

rickydroll 3y ago

these are all very good points, very accurate and a common experience. 1) anyone who knows anything never runs accuracy tuning tool. 2) apparently user profile degrading is greatly reduced in version 16. Don't really know because I haven't migrated yet. 3) electron is a flocking abomination. I blame JavaScript and the HTML Dom. 4) I would not entirely blame the browser plug-ins. There is a boatload of JavaScript out there that does everything it can to fark up dragons need to look into a text area so can decide how to make things work. 5) that sounds more like a Windows, may be hardware problem. I haven't had a Dragon related crash (15.61) for more than a couple of years. Windows is a piece of shit but it's crash rate is also dropped. re: wisper oh I would love to have a good whisper environment on Linux that's a reasonable approximation of Dragon. What that means is ability to dictate into any window anywhere, the ability to edit the content in the window, and an extension that lets you add a grammar for commands (preferably based on Python) then I would be able to ditch Windows and tell Nuance to fark off