IMB Watson Speech to Text vs Dragon Professional Individual

Accessibility and ease of use are the main components of Watson TTS. along with a variety of accents and voices to chose from. Watson sounds adequately natural. Moreover, it's a pay as you go solution with a flexible pricing point which enable users to leverage Watson TTS at a fair price. The other aspects that i liked the most were the support and availability, the Watson IoT SDKs are available in almost every major programming language and despite of your product requirements and implementation, you can just plug and play with it. Another fun feature of it is it can Synthesizes across languages and voices e.g. Convert in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Detects different dialects, such as U.S. and UK English and Castilian, Latin American, and North American Spanish.

This Dragon Professional software was purchased for preparation of teaching notes when my typing skills were seriously compromised by a mini-stroke. Setup and initial efforts to use the software were relatively easy. And the results (production) relatively rewarding. My typing skills have since been restored to normal. However, I still enjoy using Dragon. It trains itself quickly to the user's voice and offers many advanced user options. A quality microphone is a must. I use a good Yamaha stereo headset with a boom mike. Ham radio headsets are another option. This program is amazingly fast in converting your speech to text. Be aware that the programming engine which made Dragon famous was written for the Intel-PC Windows platform. The program engine which runs on Macintosh computers is not the same software, having been adapted from a different source. I'm not sophisticated enough to know the differences. But I am told that the Mac adaption performance is not up to par with the PC Windows programming. FYI, investigate before purchasing.