This spring, at a convention for online business owners we had to practice explaining to our neighbors what we ‘do’, how our business serves our clients.

This is the second blog post in a short series about Dragon Disaster Preparedness. You can find the first post here. Disaster Just over a

As with many of my blog posts, this one is inspired by a question I was asked: “Will I be able to use my Apple

Recently, Brad asked a question in the comments of one of my blog posts. “How does Dragon deal with homophones?” That’s a great question and

Greetings! The New Year is almost there. Do you have any specific plans for 2019? Me… I don’t really connect new starts to the calendar,

Even though Thanksgiving isn’t a European holiday, I do take a moment today to think about what I’m grateful for. Somewhere after being grateful for

Earlier this year I was interviewed by Neil Ball of The Entrepreneur way. I don’t think I shared the podcast interview via the blog, so

There are some topics that divide opinion. Topics that create a debate. The ongoing conversation about whether to leave one space or two at the

If you’re anything like me, you probably have done this many times: install a piece of software and then… just start using it. No tutorial

  What is NaNoWriMo? NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it is actually an international non-profit initiative to encourage people to write a

As I am sitting here, writing this, we are experiencing record-breaking high temperatures. Yesterday, on my way back from client, I caught my dashboard thermometer

How secure are speech recognition applications? A couple of months ago I read an article in the Dutch media about Alexa, Amazon’s smart home assistant,

Dragon stinks! Some time ago someone enquired in a forum after speech recognition software. But only a program that actually works! “Not Dragon, Dragon stinks!”

I had a fun experiment with Dragon: Recently there was a bit to do about a digitised sound sample saying either “Yanny” or “Laurel”. Watch

NOTE: New developments -> New blogpost with even better news 🙂  Read all about it in this blogpost of 23 February 2019! Sometime last year

Dragon may seem a wonderful solution on first sight. And in most cases it can certainly be absolutely great. But there are several considerations to

It seems so convenient: just talk to your computer and it will do what you say. Much easier than use the keyboard and mouse, right?

Is there such a thing as an Ultimate guide to Dragon NaturallySpeaking? Let me explain how I came to this question: If you have read my

I’ve had incredible fun singing a Christmas song to the Dragon 🙂 . It’s amazing what you can make the speech recognition do if you

[post updated 6 January 2019] Do your own more than one computer? If you do, you are probably interested to know whether you can install

  Recently I got this question: “What is the single most important factor for success with Dragon speech recognition?” All right, that is a question

It is a question that I get regularly: “What if I get a cold? Can I still dictate and use speech commands in Dragon? Will

Workld Emoji Day; I didn’t know it was a ‘thing’, but I’m happy to show how I dictate emoji’s in Dragon speech recognition software.

I am an entrepreneur: I run a speech recognition training and consulting business in the Netherlands and have been self-employed for over 7 years now.

Generally speaking, the term ‘speech recognition’ in technology describes the capability of an electronic device to respond to words spoken by humans. Nowadays there is

This month it is 20 years ago that Dragon NaturallySpeaking by – then – Dragon Systems was ‘born’. It was the first speech recognition product that

I created Learn Dragon Online to help people get the most out of Dragon speech recognition software. Why a course on Dragon? While speech recognition

Update: This blogpost was first written when I started my site and didn’t have a proper ‘About me’ page in place. I now have one,