Fourth Look-MindManager 8 with Voice Recognition thanks to VoxEnable & Dragon Naturally Speaking
Today, I’m publishing the fourth video demonstrating how you can mindmap with your voice. I have Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 and MindManager 8 installed on my computer and when I add this great little tool, called VoxEnable, I can mind map with my voice.
I can say something and it creates a topic, say something more and create a sub topic, say something more and move a topic around. I can say something and a boundary is put around a set of topics.
If you missed the former video entries on this topic, I will next work with the software in a more in depth way once I have had a chance to deep dive into the software. If you have questions about the software or suggestions on something I should/could test, let me know and I’ll try to generate a video of the result. 
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Tags: Dragon Naturally Speaking 10, MindManager 8, mindmapping, Voice Recognition, VoxEnable
Are there 3 videos or 4. I found three and four to be the same ones. Could your links be askrewed?
How sad. Would have loved to have seen it. I gather you didn’t save it on your hard drive so you could upload it again. I’m sure you already thought of that.
Do you have a forum? I am looking for a recommendation of a voice recorder and DNS 10. I like the looks of the Sony you use. Can you give me the model of it.
Do you talk into a microphone that is attached to the voice recorder?
Thanks
Kelly
Hi:
Do you have a forum? I want to get into digital recording and DNS. Can you tell me which Sony recorder you have? Is it best to talk into a microphone attached to the Sony?
Thanks
Kelly Rittgers
Last question: Is there a big learning curve with Dragon and using a recorder? I have read that an Olympus 5000 is a good one. Any thoughts.
Kelly
I take a small recorder with me and I make “to do” notes to myself or I use the little recorder to capture ideas and thoughts. I use it in my work as an attorney. I currently type these messages up now. It would save me a ton of time if I had Dragon and could use it effectively.
Thanks
Kelly
Thanks. In light of what I have stated do you think I would be better off with Dragon mobile or Dragon Professional or something else.
Thanks
Kelly
Do you hire your services out? I would like to ask a few more questions but I don’t seem any contact info except for this? However, I can understand why you might not want to receive private email or things like that. Whatever works is fine with me.
I have no need for legal terms with the Dragon. I can add those myself. With the Dragon Mobile you actually purchase a voice recorder with the software inside? I thought I read that somewhere.
I think you have quite an interesting website here.
Thank you.
Kelly
Would you mind sending the email to this email?
Thanks
Kelly
There were 4, for some reason that I never received an answer to, YouTube deleted 2 of the videos. I was able to recover and re-upload one of them, but couldn’t recover one of the others.
YouTube is a great service, but they do some strange things from time to time.
I made the video on my way to CES and several other conferences last year. Somewhere along my travels and the other video that I took for those events, I lost that one after the upload.
I have a sony icd-ux70 mp3 recorder. ( article here http://www.softduit.com/mavenmappersinformation/2008/11/11/450-words-written-in-45-minutes-with-a-sony-ic-recorder-and-dragon-naturally-speaking-10/ )
I do find that it works better when you plug in a noise cancelling microphone. I usually use a headset microphone like the type that I would plugin to my computer. Even better, use that same microphone to make corrections on your transcribed text via your computer and then you can start to build up a mobile profile that fits the player/mic combination
Thanks for the info. Is there a good microphone you recommend?
I like your website. Very interesting. Do you sell products?
Kelly.
For computer use, I really like the cordless Logitech Microphone, should appear in an amazon wheel to the right of this comment.
For use with an MP3 recorder, I currently recommend any noise cancelling headset microphone with the right plug. (they all seem about the same).
I’m hoping to test a microphone that for lack of a better description, looks like a lapel mic from Olympia sometime soon. The challenge there will be that proximity to your mouth is typically pretty important for accuracy with noise canceling microphones.
I don’t sell products, but do try to provide relative links to the places where you can get them. A number of different web sites tend to jockey for the best value or deals. With mics, I usually find the best deals at Amazon, but sometimes get them at Best Buy, just because I sometimes need a hands on perspective before I buy.
For Dragon products themselves sometimes nuance offers the best prices (they make it) but sometimes I think other places, like Amazon, offer it at very temporarily lower prices, maybe a teazer to get people to buy other products (non-loss leaders or something).
To answer the learning curve, I’d have to ask how you plan on using it? What circumstances, type of work etc.
Dragon works extremely well, but to use dragon effectively it requires a different approach to both the way you work and the way you think (construct thoughts and express them).
On the technical side, I don’t think there is much of a learning curve. If you plan on doing the majority of your transcription from a recorder, I’d recommend purchasing the mobile version of DNS See Amazon version here http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=wwwsoftduitco-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B001B5FM7E&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
Note that product DOES come with a recorder already with the software.
What I have done, is essentially use the Preferred version of dragon with an off the shelf recorder. This was more of a proof of concept, rather than the optimal way to use dragon or a MP3 recorder.
To save yourself the most time, effort and get the best results, I’d definitely recommend going with the Mobile version, even though its a little more than Preferred.
As I recall, the Basic version of DNS will not work with a recorder at all (it does not have the file import function).
That version of mobile comes with a Panasonic device, which I’m not crazy about personally.
Dragon has offered similar bundles with Sony (on DNS version 9) in the past.
I’m keeping my eye out for a new one just coming out from Olympus Olympus WS-400S DNS w/Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10. That will probably price out at about $150, which is cheaper than the Panasonic version. It also comes with that lapel microphone I mentioned.
If you can wait, I’d wait and see what people say about the Olympus version.
If alternatively, you are going to use this primarily straight with a PC or mac, then I’d just get the preferred version.
I think it definitely could help you. Dragon is very popular with attorneys and doctors as well.
That said be prepared to practice a bit. The program doesn’t need much if any training, but your brain probably will. I am not an attorney but have a master’s in laws. I mention that because when I first started using Dragon, I could easily (without thought) type something off the cuff at what I would call a college/professional level. But when I spoke my words with dragon trying to write something, I was probably only writing at about a junior level in high school.
When we speak, we tend to speak with lots of run-ons and connectors between our sentences. If you have any experience with speaking into a recorder for dictation, you might already have some mental skill at this.
The area of the brain that we use to think and type is very different from the area of the brain that we use to think and write with a pen. Those two areas are even further removed from the area of the brain we use to think and speak.
So you will spend a little time either finding a way to think and speak as if you are writing, or going back and doing a little more editing on your spoke/written words than you are probably used to doing.
When I first edited some of my dragon writing, I thought I was editing the words of a completely different person.
I’m not trying to discourage you. I do think it will help and there are good reasons why many of your colleagues use Dragon, but hopefully this will help you prepare for the learning curve.
I think you could be a prime candidate for Dragon Mobile, but I’d prefer to hold off on that recommendation until I had a chance to test drive the new Olympus-Dragon Bundle.
The safe answer is that Dragon Preferred should be a good bet for you for your computer use.
Not sure if I’ve mentioned it on this page of comments or not, but Preferred through a computer does reach the 99% accuracy goals typically, even for a vocabulary heavy in the legal language. Some Latin terms will even pick up very successfully, but might require a little one off dragon vocabulary fine tuning (especially for your pronunciation, many people know how to write and spell a few Latin words, but don’t always know how to pronounce them in a standard way).
It would cost just a little extra, but my advice would be to start with the Preferred version now. Get used to it, if you can adapt your work culture to fit using this tool, then in 2-3 months, buy one of the bundled packages of Mobile with a good recorder.
You will end up with 2 Dragon licenses in this case, but you will have better odds of getting the right product for you. Not sure if you have looked into it, but there is a Dragon for Legal Professionals version that typically costs just under $1000. If you stick with the Preferred versions (even if you buy 2), you are still going to save about $600 – $700.
I do hire my services out, but not typically as it concerns Dragon or MindManager for that matter. (Never seen enough of a market for it as a consultant).
I sent you a quick email with my contact information. I’m more than happy to discuss things with you or help if I can. Where possible I do try to answer as many questions as possible on the website so that other visitors can also benefit from the discussion.