Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Education
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The World’s Premier Speech
Recognition Solution
How Does Speech Recognition Work?
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11: The time in now!
Dragon NaturallySpeaking is changing the way you
use your computer, create documents, send email and
even navigate the web, just by using your voice!
• It works! – delivers up to 99%
accuracy
• Saves time! Faster than
typing
• Easy to use with most
Windows & web applications
Dragon NaturallySpeaking in Education
Save time doing ordinary daily
tasks including creating lecture
notes and handouts, creating
presentations, and sending
emails.
– Full integrated with all Microsoft
Office apps
– Even do this on the go!
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking in Education
Meet diverse learning and
accessibility needs
– Support for multiple
learning styles
– Support for English
Language Learners
– Support for students
with physical and
learning disabilities
– Support for individuals
with Repetitive Stress
Injuries
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking in Education
Use/Teach industry
standard tools
– Dragon NaturallySpeaking
is recognized leader in
business, medical and
legal industries
– Using Dragon
NaturallySpeaking will
prepare students for their
future careers.
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Using Speech Recognition to Improve Communication Skills
Speaking
● Pronunciation
● Enunciation
● Articulation
Writing
● Composition
● Grammar skills
● Vocabulary
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Reading
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Oral Reading Efficiency
Word Identification
Sight Vocabulary
Fluency
Comprehension
Listening with Speech Recognition
• Read that
– Allows students to listen and follow what is being read on the
screen
– Reinforces word pronunciation
• Play that back
– Allows students to hear their own voice and self-access
– (Used in ELL Pre-Production, Early Production Stages)
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Applications: Microsoft Word
• Quickly creating documents, editing/grading papers
– Direct commands for bold, underline, italicize, copy, delete…
• Plus commands for bullets, centering/aligning, pasting…
– Insert page breaks, page numbers, footnotes…
– Apply Styles (Heading 1, Normal) and create Table of Contents
– Use commands for MS Word’s “Outline” feature
– Use Tracked Changes
– Insert Comments
• Save even more time with boilerplate “macro commands”.
• Opening, saving, printing (and print preview), closing
– Zoom, spell-check…
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Benefits of Learning to Use Speech Recognition
 Next Generation of Inputting Skill
 Increases Productivity
 Improves Communication Skills—Reading, Writing &
Speaking
 Prevent Injuries
 Prepares Students For Increased Employment Demands
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What Educators Are Saying About Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
• The Best Speech Recognition Software in the World
– Don W. –
“Until I started using Dragon Naturally Speaking in my classroom, I thought that I
had seen it all. As an Elementary teacher, I find that Dragon is very versatile. I use
a digital projector and Dragon for many of my lessons. What’s so cool about
Dragon is that it allows me to create exciting lessons on-the-fly with students.
Students dictate sentences to me and then I repeat them so that they magically
appear before my 3rd graders eyes. They are so impressed that they are all
picking up on the commands used for dictation”
– Paul S.
“It's 7 a.m. on a Tuesday morning I've just arrived at my classroom and waiting by
the door is one of my students who has only been in this country a few years. He's
not waiting for a detention; he's waiting for me to turn on my computer, put on my
headset, and speak his essay into a Word document using Dragon
NaturallySpeaking”
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What Educators Are Saying About Dragon
NaturallySpeaking-cont.
Paul S. cont.
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“As class progresses we have completed an outline of an essay. I put on the
headset and begin dictating my essay directly into the computer. As though
it's magic my essay is displayed on my big-screen TV. My room of 35, street
smart eighth-graders, sits in rapt attention as I quickly write, and model, the
essay I expect them to produce. Later that day I open up Dragon
NaturallySpeaking and write a letter of recommendation for one of my
colleagues who is applying to a leadership program at the local university. As
my teaching day is now over, I use the program to prepare the next day's
lessons. Before I leave school that night, I open an Excel file where I keep the
local high school basketball team information and statistics that I use in my
volunteer job as the local basketball announcer. Before I wrap it up for the
night I use the program to answer my personal e-mail.”
“Dragon NaturallySpeaking has not only helped me become a better
teacher, it has helped hundreds of students who pass through my
classroom every year.”
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