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Words per Minute
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Words per Minute
The number of words of dictation a person can type in one minute. Maintaining a high WPM rate is an important clerical skill for persons who are expected to type or retype documents.


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The application tracks an individual's progress as they type through a random paragraph of text, then calculates their final words-per-minute (WPM) typing speed once they've completed a race.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking converts speech into text at up to 160 words-per-minute, at accuracy levels of up to 99 percent, and allows users to control Microsoft Windows and many of their PC applications completely by voice.
With its sophisticated and patented speech recognition technology, ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking is able to accurately understand and convert more than 250,000 words into editable text at a speed of up to 160 words-per-minute, over three times faster than the average typing speed.
 
 
 
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