Because of my previous negative experience using older versions of the two, I've been trying to research Dragon with WordPerfect, and some of the things I've read make it sound like I shouldn't expect Dragon to work as well with WP as it does with Word - but most of these posts were also a few years old, or more. Apparently, though, the course doesn't focus on teaching you to use Dragon with a particular word processor (they say to use Word or WordPerfect but don't gear the teaching toward a particular one), and the course staff wasn't able to answer my questions about how well DPI 15 works with WordPerfect. I'll be replacing my laptop I've had for several years with a newer and better one (I already have a list of specs outlined) and I'm planning on taking an online course that was recommended by a fellow transcriptionist that teaches you to use DPI 15 efficiently, applies it to legal transcription, and guarantees you'll reach 180 wpm with it. And sometimes things would just freeze up for around 30 seconds when running Dragon and WP.ĭue to having tendon fatigue recently, I'm looking to try using speech recognition again. Sometimes it would also overwrite/delete the last couple of lines or so that I'd dictated. When using Dragon 13 with it, it would almost always insert random extra letters and/or extra spaces at the beginning and end of my chunks of speech. I have a little experience using Dragon 13 Home, which worked pretty well for me with Word, but it had issues with the old version of WordPerfect I use that was provided to me for free (it's WP 12, I believe - quite old). (It's a legal transcription company and the legal field tends to hold on to old traditions!)

Although I prefer Microsoft Word, I have to do most of my work in WordPerfect since that's what the main company I contract with requires. I'm a transcriptionist looking to make the switch from typing to mostly using voice recognition to produce my documents. Here is my basic question (well, questions), and then the paragraphs below are just explanation/summarized background of my situation if you feel like reading that.Ĭan anyone offer your experience using DPI 15 and WordPerfect? Which version of WordPerfect should I upgrade to for best results when using with DPI 15?

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