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Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 SDK

Deploy Speech Recognition Within Any Workflow Solution

The performance of the world's number one speech recognition and dictation solution is available to developers through a Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK family of products. If you want to speech-enable your Microsoft Windows applications, you can't find a more accurate or robust environment than Dragon NaturallySpeaking provides. Both client and server editions allow you to add speech recognition to Microsoft Windows and Internet applications or implement speech recognition directly on your server if you desire.

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Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK Client Edition 10 allows developers and systems integrators to power Microsoft Windows applications with the interactive dictation features available in the award winning Dragon NaturallySpeaking software. The SDK Client Edition can be integrated into medical records applications, CRM applications, legal practice management applications or any other workflow application.

Everything you need for rapid deployment:

  • Develop with any language that supports Active X and COM, including C++, C# and Visual Basic
  • The SDK Client Edition comes with comprehensive sample code and detailed documentation
  • Expanded support for network deployments, including Citrix terminals.
  • Pre-configured for compatibility with almost any text editor, including Microsoft® Word and Corel® WordPerfect® including support for non-standard edit controls such as Borland's TMemo, TEdit & TRichEdit controls as well as TE Edit from SubSystems and TX Text from TX Text Control.
  • Support for six languages
  • Support for pre-recorded .wav input, as well as tools for building custom language models.

To distribute Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK technology as part of your application, you must have an OEM licensing agreement with Nuance. Please Note: Any license to distribute Dragon NaturallySpeaking technology does not include a license to incorporate or distribute our RealSpeak™ Text-to-Speech engine. For more information on licensing for both RealSpeak and the Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK, please contact Nuance Sales.

The Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK Server Edition 10 provides developers with a robust environment for implementing speech recognition applications on a server, including batch transcription of dictated recordings and audiomining/speech indexing.

Optimized Accuracy from Any Dictation Source

  • Leverage specialized acoustic models to support input from close talking microphones, hand held digital recorders, or telephones and achieve accuracy over 20% higher than version 8.
  • Audio input file support includes PCM, ADPCM, .wav, .mp3, and VOX.
  • Continually increase accuracy rates as misrecognitions are corrected, either by the user or a third party-editor.
  • US English includes an expanded pre-configured medical, legal, or general English language model library, or create custom vocabularies tailored for any domain.
  • Support for US and UK English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, and Dutch in several medical specialties.
  • Create unlimited custom vocabularies tailored for any lexicon.
  • Leverage Speaker Triage to determine the best candidates for speech recognition processing.
  • Use Language Model ID to automatically have the Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK Server Edition choose the best medical language model for each user.
  • Includes AudioMining module for speaker independent indexing of audio files and transcript alignment.

Flexible architecture simplifies integration

  • Develop with any language that supports ActiveX, including C++, C# and Visual Basic.
  • Automate user profile creation with no requirement for interactive script reading.
  • Scalable development and run-time solution that allows you to use as many or as few engines as needed by your application.
  • XML concordance file allows for easy synchronization between recordings and text output.
  • Store user profiles on any networked server.

Powerful Engine Maximizes Processing Power

  • The Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK Server Edition can run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and processes recordings in real time or faster.
  • Each server can recognize up to 12,000,000 lines per year*.

The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Developer Support Program is designed to meet the needs or application developers and system integrators who want to use the Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK to bring speech recognition functionality to their applications.

Benefits of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Developer Support Program include:

  • Direct answers to development questions from Dragon Developer Support Engineers via web form or telephone.
  • Access to Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK Tech notes and FAQs.
  • Access to software updates as they become available for in-house testing and prototyping.