The Unimacro project

Unimacro provides extended and advanced command grammars for Dragon NaturallySpeaking (NatSpeak or Dragon).

Unimacro connects to the NatLink⁄NatPython project, which again connects to Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

So Unimacro is an extension of an extension of the speech recognition program Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

Unimacro is free, like NatLink⁄NatPython, and can be downloaded from SourceForge.

Unimacro also aims at unifying the different open source developments that use Natlink as basis. Therefore on this website the combined installer for NatLink⁄Unimacro⁄ Vocola 2 is also presented.

Positioning of Unimacro

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a general speech recognition program, sold by Nuance.
NatLink⁄NatPython is an open source project written by Joel Gould. His general introduction and explanation is several years old, but still very instructive. Read for example the general presentation about NatLink (basics)
Meant as a unifying set of grammars the Unimacro project was started. The grammars that are presented on this website all run inside NatLink⁄NatPython. In other words: they are in the NatLink system.
Vocola 2 is another development running in the NatLink system. See pages on Vocola 2 and Unimacro , which to use when. Vocola 2 can now use Unimacro features. (Note for Windows Speech Recognition use can try Vocola 3.)
VoiceCode is the third big application based on NatLink. Read the VoiceCode (initial advise) presentation of Joel Gould, which he gave before the voicecode project started.
As another application based on NatLink, Dragonfly has been developed in a more modern way. It is very powerful, and integration with Unimacro and Vocola 2 will be investigated. Dragonfly also works with Windows Speech Recognition!

What is on this site?

The installation⁄configuration section will guide you through the installation details of NatLink⁄Vocola 2 and Unimacro.
The features section explains the powerful things that are implemented with Unimacro.
A comparison between Unimacro and Vocola , they coexist and cooperate on many aspects.
The grammars section is by far the most important for practical use. Most of the grammars are designed to be global, so first look into the global grammars examples.
More technical details of the different Unimacro grammar classes and NatLink in general .
Finally- About Unimacro gives information on the authors of this project and the copyright notice.

Demo movies

Some demonstration movies have been made, to show features of Unimacro.

A stable release: natlink4.0, see installation pages for details. October, 2011