Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software has won more than 175
awards worldwide. The software program allows you to create documents and
e-mails, fill out forms, all by speaking.
Awards
Critics everywhere are singing its praises and it's currently on the
best-seller list at every major software retailer in the country. Dragon
NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software has won more than 175 awards
worldwide. 2006 Awards:
C|NET
Editors' Choice
February 2006
PC World
100 best products of 2006
Specialties
The Software is offered in specialty editions to accommodate industry
specific vocabulary and formatting. All editions detailed below support
input from digital voice recorders and desktop dictation devices (Philips
SpeechMike and Olympus Directrec)
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred is designed more for the
consumer market. It is essentially a scaled down (less features) version of
the Professional Edition. The Preferred Version offers the same great
accuracy as Professional since it is the same same speech recognition
engine.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional is really designed for
professional users. It allows you to create custom vocabularies to
accommodate industry specific terminology and works with most any program.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical is designed specifically for the
healthcare industry. Providing over a dozen specialty specific vocabularies
including Cardiology, Emergency, Gastroenterology, General Practice, Medical,
Mental Health, Neurology, Ob-Gyn, Oncology, Orthopedic, Pathology, Pediatrics,
Radiology and Surgery.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal is designed specifically for the legal
industry. The software provides professional terminology and appropriate
formatting
for example it automatically formats legal citations. The software
features ability to create special voice commands that instantly build and
format templates for contracts or other legal documents.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Software Reviews
How well Does Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 work? Check out the latest reviews
Dragon NaturallySpeaking is an excellent program. Internally we have
utilized the software for years to produce emails, create web content, write
articles and post forum topics. We even use the software to communicate with our
customers via live chat. It just makes creating content easy. Normally we would
provide a staff review, however we opted to provide a collection of reviews from
a myriad of sources. The reviews provided above offer an interesting
perspective, several of the authors had little to no experience with speech
recognition software prior to taking Dragon 9 for a test drive. With so
many write ups from PC Magazine to the New York times, there is definitely a great
deal of press coverage for the release of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9. Most
everyone agrees the software is phenomenal, it just works. There are
countless reasons to switch or start using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 and while we
are huge fans, we do have a few gripes which we have compiled in the "Cons" list
below. Lastly we completed a Staff Rating.
Conclusions - Cons
Hardware Requirements: Minimal Hardware requirements listed by Nuance
are just that minimal and will render minimal performance. We tested the
Professional Edition on a system with 512MB, and experienced
performance lags and even fluctuations in accuracy. For optimal
results double the suggested requirements.
Stability: While the software is designed to work with several popular
programs, it can be a bit buggy.
Preferred Edition lacks a few important features: The Preferred Edition
does not not support use with several popular email programs, if you
want to use speech to dictate and navigate in Microsoft Outlook for
example you have to upgrade to the Professional Edition.
Professional Edition a bit pricey: While the software is
definitely worth the investment, we still think Professional 9 is bit
expensive.
Rating for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Professional, Medical & Legal
