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Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10
SDK Client Edition
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 SDK
Client Edition (DSC) includes everything
needed to add cutting-edge speech
recognition technology to any Windows
based application. The tools, libraries,
and ActiveX components of the SDK
make it possible to integrate the
speech-recognition capabilities of
Dragon NaturallySpeaking into any
Windows application without using
the Dragon NaturallySpeaking user
interface.
Developers can quickly and easily
create speech-aware applications “from
scratch” or add speech recognition
to existing applications. The Dragon
NaturallySpeaking speech engine allows
end-users to enter, edit and correct
text by voice, as well as command and
control the application by voice.
Speech-Enable Applications to Increase Speed
and Productivity
• Improved Achieve accuracy rates up to 99%. Enable continuous
dictation into a specified standard Window or any kind of window with more
accurate results than the previous release.
• Improved Create New User Profiles. Developers can create new user
profiles using the Dragon New User Wizard, or from within their applications
with or without interaction with the end-user. The EFEnroll command-line
utility offers the ability to create and train (enroll) a user profile using recorded
speech files and a transcription of that recorded speech. Version 10
incorporates new acoustic models for better coverage of non-native and
regional accents. Together with more powerful adaptation techniques, this
will help end-users get better recognition accuracy from the very first use.
• Vocabulary. The Dragon vocabulary consists of a language model and files
containing the words users can say. Developers can create custom
vocabularies tailored for any dictation domain. GetCustomWords, a
command-line utility that is available with the SDK, retrieves a list of custom
words from a user’s vocabulary and stores the words in a file.
• Microphone. The Dragon NaturallySpeaking ActiveX controls include a
microphone-button object (DgnMicBtn) that provides programmatic access
to the microphone and a microphone button (with VU meter) that developers
can display in the application’s user interface.
• Improved Dictation. Developers can leverage the full feature set of the
award-winning Dragon NaturallySpeaking, including free text dictation of up
to 160 words per minute virtually anywhere you can type; easy correction by
voice for complete hands-free operation; and dictation playback for fast editing.
Create Custom Commands Designed for a Specific
Application
• Voice commands. Voice commands enable end-users to perform actions
by speaking into the microphone rather than (or in addition to) using a
keyboard or a mouse. Developers can code their applications to respond
appropriately when a specified sequence or pattern of words is recognized
as a command. Depending on the complexity and flexibility needed by an
application, developers can create commands by using the DgnVoiceCmd
object, making it easy to create a short list of literal commands and to nest
one level of commands within them.
• Text to Speech. Applications can output text in the form of speech by
using a voice-text object and the text-to-speech engine provided with
Dragon NaturallySpeaking, or any other SAPI-compliant TTS engine the
developer provides.
• Integrate Transcriptions from Audio Files. Applications developers can
transcribe audio files into application windows or transcribe audio files into
text and document files. DSC also includes the AutoTranscribe Folder
Agent, a GUI tool that automatically transcribes recorded voice from audio
files into user-specified directories.
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Development Environments
The Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK Client Edition
(DSC) provides developers with tools, including
Dragon APIs, to integrate speech recognition
capabilities into applications. When programming in
the DSC environment, developers access Dragon's
ActiveX controls using the Dragon APIs. Developers
can program in any language that ActiveX controls
support. However, officially supported environments in
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows
NT 4.0, Windows ME, and Windows XP include Visual
Basic 6.0, 7.1 and 8 and Visual C++ 6.0, 7.1 and 8.0.

Comprehensive sample code and detailed

documentation is available. In addition, the Dragon
NaturallySpeaking Developer Support Program offers:
• Direct answers to development questions from
Dragon Developer Support engineers via Web form
or telephone Includes Everything Needed for Rapid Deployment
• Access to Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK Tech • Multiple Languages. DSC supports English, French, Italian, German,
Notes and FAQs
Spanish and Dutch
• Access to software updates as they become
available for in-house testing and prototyping • SDK Runtime. Developers can install the DSC SDK runtime in a network
Installation Requirements environment. In other words, developers can push the software application
• Each system where you plan to install DSC must meet the following out to client computers without having to install it separately on each client
requirements:
system. The DSC includes a native Windows Installer (MSI) that lets
• CPU: Intel® Pentium4® or later or AMD Athlon 64 1 GHz or later.
(SSE2 instruction set required). developers both install across a network to multiple client machines and
• Memory: 512 MB RAM (1 GB RAM for Windows Vista™) customize installations. Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server,
• Free hard disk space: 1 GB (2 GB for localized non-English versions)
• L2 Cache: 512 KB Windows Server 2003 and System Management Server (SMS) support this
• Supported Operating Systems: type of network installation. The installation administrator creates an image
– Windows Server 2000
of the installation program on the server, and then configures the server to
– Windows Server 2003
– Windows XP Service Pack 2 or higher, 32-bit automatically push the application onto the client systems. Network
– Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 or higher installations can also be configured to modify, repair, or remove an existing
– Windows Vista™ or Windows Vista™ Service Pack 1, 32-bit
installation.
– 64-bit OS not currently supported
• DVD-ROM drive (required for installation)
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 or higher • Command-Line and GUI Tools. DSC includes a Data Distribution Tool
and NSAdmin tool that enables developers to interactively create new
Recommended Specifications words, customized vocabularies or commands, and make them available to
• CPU: Intel® Pentium4® / 2.4 GHz (1.6 GHz dual core) or equivalent all user profiles on a particular Dragon NaturallySpeaking installation.
AMD processor. (SSE2 instruction set required).
• Memory: 1 GB RAM
• L2 Cache: 1 MB

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