Dragon Naturally Speaking 11: installing a non-standard language pack

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I've installed Dragon Naturally Speaking 11, and it's running perfectly in English. I've been asked to get it to recognize Afrikaans (a local South African language), but I'm having trouble - as far as I understand it shouldn't be too difficult to import a dictionary and train it, but I can't find an extensive dictionary for the language.

I also read somewhere that using an Office 2007 spellcheck pack might work, but it doesn't seem to.

Does anybody have any suggestions as to the best process I should follow to install a non-standard language into Dragon Naturally Speaking?

Jeriko

Posted 2010-11-16T08:51:02.993

Reputation: 131

Answers

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There is no support for Afrikaans.

http://www.nuance.com/ucmprod/groups/dragon/@web-enus/documents/collateral/nc_017505.pdf :

Dragon Naturally Speaking is available in a number of languages and supports multiple accents as well:

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Dutch

Accents

  • Standard
  • Australian accented English
  • British accented English
  • Indian accented English
  • Inland Northern US (Great Lakes area)
  • Southern Asian accented English
  • Southern US
  • Spanish accented English

Dragon Dictate for Mac is available in a number of languages and supports multiple accents as well:

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian

Accents

  • American
  • American – Inland Northern
  • American – Southern
  • American – Teens
  • Australian
  • British
  • Indian
  • Latino
  • Southeast Asian

Note that OS X Yosemite ships with 24 new dictation languages:

Arabic
- Saudi Arabia
Catalan
- Spain
Croatian
- Croatia
Czech
- Czech Republic
Danish
- Denmark
Dutch
- Netherlands
Finnish
- Finland
Greek
- Greece
Hebrew
- Israel
Hungarian
- Hungary
Indonesian
- Indonesia
Malay
- Malaysia
Norwegian Bokmal
- Norway
Polish
- Poland
Portuguese
- Brazil
- Portugal
Romanian
- Romania
Russian
- Russia
Slovak
- Slovakia
Swedish
- Sweden
Thai
- Thailand
Turkish
- Turkey
Ukrainian
- Ukraine
Vietnamese
- Vietnam

Franck Dernoncourt

Posted 2010-11-16T08:51:02.993

Reputation: 13 518