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Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 SDK Server Edition
Integrate Speech Recognition into Dictation or Transcription Workflow
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 SDK Server (DSS) Edition provides a set of tools and interfaces to help software developers successfully build and integrate automated speech recognition into dictation and transcription workflow systems.
DSS is specifically designed for integration into solutions that require speech recognition to run in the background, without any interactive dictation or self-editing by users. Back-end speech recognition enables the batch processing of recorded speech from a range of devices, including digital recorders, PDAs, tablet PCs and telephone dictation systems. Although DSS is not a transcription workflow in itself, it can be integrated within existing systems to automate transcription, increasing transcription productivity and reducing transcription costs.
- New Support for Audio Streaming. To streamline workflow, recognition can now be performed from a streaming file, eliminating the need to produce an audio file.
- Improved Acoustic models. DSS comes with a collection of base acoustic models that have been trained on vast amounts of relevant speech recordings from many speakers. DSS supports different accents and dictation sources, including dictation recorded over the telephone.
- New Vocabulary. Legal vocabularies are now available for US English and German.
- ActiveX controls provide interfaces for integration into dictation/transcription workflow software. ActiveX provides flexible server software integration and is supported by many compiled and interpreted (script) languages such as C++, C#, Visual Basic, Python, Perl, etc.
- Fully functional sample programs that are designed for use in the transcription workflow.
Installation requirements
- CPU: Intel® Pentium4® or later or AMD Athlon 64 1 GHz or later. (SSE2 instruction set required).
- Memory: 512 MB RAM (1 GB RAM for Windows VistaTM)
- Free hard disk space: 1 GB (2 GB for localized non-English versions)
- L2 Cache: 512 KB
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP SP2 or higher — 32 bit, Windows 2000 SP4 or higher, Windows VistaTM or Windows VistaTM SP1, 32-bit
- DVD-ROM drive (required for installation)
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 or higher (free download available at < ahref="http://www.microsoft.com" target="_blank">www.microsoft.com)
- Nuance-approved noise-canceling headset microphone (included), Creative® Labs Sound Blaster® 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording, speakers (required for playback of recorded speech and text to speech features)
- For Bluetooth wireless microphone support, please visit http://support.nuance.com/compatibility/
- A Web connection is required for activation
Recommended specifications
- CPU: Intel® Pentium4® / 2.4 GHz (1.6 GHz dual core) or equivalent AMD processor. (SSE2 instruction set required).
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- L2 Cache: 1 MB
Supported Audio Formats
DSS supports data formats from 8khz (for telephony) to 99khz in PCM and MS-ADPCM and IMA-ADPCM format. DSS supports the following audio file types in both mono and stereo:
- WAVE PCM
- mu-law
- MSADPCM
- VOX
- IMAADPCM
- MP3
- a-law
- WMA
Language Versions Available
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- UK English
- US English