Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 (Standard Edition) (PC)

Product Details

Platform : Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Binding : CD-ROM
EAN : 5031199018229
Manufacturer : Nuance Communications, Inc.
Product Group : Software
Release Date : 2006-07-21

ASIN : B000GTGQTY

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

With the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Standard 9 your speech or whatever you say is instantly retranscribed quicker than the keyboard in your documents, emails or other messenger services! You can even navigate on the Internet simply by using your voice. Its precision can reach up to a remarkable 99%. This software offers exceptional user-friendliness. In addition, no training is necessary and you can begin dictating in only a few minutes. Thus you can use your voice for creating and editing documents and control several applications including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Internet Explorer as well as many more.        Your entire family will love the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Standard 9. Neither you, nor your children or parents will be able to resist the charm of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Standard 9.

Manufacturer's Description

With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Standard you can talk to your computer and watch words quickly appear in documents, e-mails, instant messages and even surf the web simply by speaking! It's amazingly accurate - up to 99% - and really easy to use. There's no script reading or "voice training" required, so you can get started dictating right away. Perfect for the whole family - busy parents, kids just learning to type, and even grandparents!

Customer Reviews

I'll never type again (2008-08-19)

I've been using this product to help with my academic writing. I'm amazed at how accurate the recognition software is and how it remembers and improves the more you use it. I now dictate everything and correct any mistakes when I do a readthrough and edit what I did wrote, which I always did when typing anyway so it's no extra work. I would recommend anyone who does a lot of typing to try this software. The only gripe is the headset which is a bit low quality and quite painful after a while, typically I could work 2 hours at a go after which my head hurt. I bought a more comfortable set (less than £10) but the ear pads made my ears overheat. In the end I butchered the original headset and adapted the microphone to sit on my desk. After running the setup tests (dead easy) this now works really well.

Naturally Speaking? (2008-07-30)

I don't know much about the program and its history and all, I brought a copy in the hopes of making life easy for my writing and sadly It failed basically in short it works like this."Ice cream" is a word that means the confectionery based food, whereas "I Scream" is an expression that means just that, Understand? of course you do, its human understanding its what separates us from the animals and all that, however this program doesn't understand the difference and will lag behind for seconds before guessing[usually wrongly] and just adds to making a more difficult task and endless deleting of text, also the program cant make its mind up with what is noise and what is speech, this review is a good example of what I mean, for the sake of bitter sweet irony I tried to use the program to write this review and it took over half an hour to re-write, edit and correct.Its a great program in theory it really is and in a few years I imagine the software will be "Starship Enterprise Quality" like were all hoping it should be, however right now its just not quiet there, and the fact they expect you to pay fairly steep money for the privilege and not be a freeware program is quiet insulting.2/10.FAIL.

A good product, but with some problems still in version 9+ ! (2008-06-10)

I recently bought this product for my step-father, so to make it easier for him to write long letters. Given that he doesn't need to write a huge amount, in many different applications, or even all that frequently; we decided that a Standard edition should be enough.He has a laptop with Vista, that meets the requirements easily.The good:-1) The program seems quite stable, with only one crash (was worried, as it happened during install!). No further stability issues since installation and updating/patching.2) While I have seen reports of ongoing issues (especially with Vista), I have not seen many on this system.3) The program works. Providing you have a good microphone and audio setup. I recommend ensuring you have a good sound card, if you're using a 3.5mm jack connector microphone. If using a USB microphone (I recommend doing so) you still don't want it plugged in on top of a generator or something like that, but it seemed to me to be more tolerant.The bad:-I suspect that this would run better on a good desktop/tower, as it certainly seems resource hungry for the laptop. The laptop has 2GB memory and a reasonable processor, but if it's running much more than Dragon and MS Office, the speech-to-text side of things performes a bit sluggishly. Still works, just seems to sometimes be lagging 200-1200ms behind what I would expect sometimes.The ugly:-Total lack of 64-bit OS support. This isn't a shooting game, this is a serious real world application. It should be supported by/on a serious OS.

Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 (Standard Edition) (PC).Phooey. (2008-05-10)

Got me one of these. Wouldn't install in Vista. Downloaded whacking great patch. Wouldn't install. Said I needed to get a sound system. Have one.I'd assumed dragon 7 wouldn't work. Decided to try. It installed. Took the training, then wouldn't work in Word. So tried dictating into Dragon pad and it works. Spell systems out, but after dictating, just copy to Word or Abi and do spell check their. Makes Vista a bit unstable, but then Vista is. Yes.

Excellent Piece of Software. (2008-04-16)

I purchased NaturallySpeaking 9 to use on Windows Vista (no problems at all installing it). I found its accuracy to be around 85% but am sure it will improve with continued use. However, I now find that I need to be away from my computer quite often so I have purchased the Preferred edition to use with my voice recorder.I would unreservedly recommend this product, and the Nuance website, as they are excellent

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