Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 (Standard Edition) (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Category: Software
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 1260
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.9 x 2.8
MPN: A309X-W00-9.0
EAN: 5031199018229
ASIN: B000GTGQTY
Release Date: July 21, 2006
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Standard 9.0, English
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 An excellent voice recognition program! November 1, 2008
Mr. Mt Cosgrove
I am writing this review using version 9 of Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Standard Edition). I have only been using it for a very short time, but already I can tell that it has adapted to my own voice, and the accuracy is excellent!
Over the years, I have experimented with a variety of voice recognition programs, and I have to say that Dragon NaturallySpeaking wins hands down. You can speak naturally and clearly, and the program will recognize everything that you are saying. What's more, the Voice Commands built into the program are mostly very intuitive; a lot of thought has obviously gone into how to lay out the various options for making corrections and editing text.
However, I have found that some of the commands that I use to navigate the Internet are hit and miss. For example, when I ask it to click on a particular link sometimes it does it straight away, other times it merely scrolls to the bottom of the page for some unknown reason.
I have also experimented using Dragon NaturallySpeaking with Instant Messenger programs -- it works very well, I can even say the words "smiley -- face" and that particular emoticon will appear.
One of the major problems and frustrations when using this system is that sometimes it seems to recognize what you say -- and you know this, because the words you have spoken appear in the preview box -- but then it doesn't carry out a particular command or instruction. One example of this is when using an Instant Messenger, in order to enter the text you have to say "press.enter", and more often than not it does not carry out the command.
All in all, I am very impressed and would recommend it to anybody who has to do a lot of writing.
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What follows is an extract that I have read from Stephen King's book "On Writing." I have not made any amendments -- the text appears, as it was transcribed by Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
I'm not that way. I lived in part, Turkey jerky childhood, raised by a single parent, who moved around a lot in my earliest years and who -- I am not completely sure of this -- may have farmed my brother and me out to one of her sisters in a while, because she was economically and emotionally unable to cope with us for a time.perhaps she was only chasing father, and piled up all sorts of bills and then did 1 ounce when I was two and my brother David was for. If so, she never succeeded in finding him. My mum, Nelly Ruth Pilsbury King, was one of America's early liberated women, but not by choice.
Mary car presents a childhood in an almost unbroken panorama. Mine is fogs out landscape from which occasional memories appear like isolated trees... The kind that look as if they might like to grabbing each you.
What follows some of those memories, plus assorted snapshots from the somewhat more cold here in today's of my adolescence and younger man. This is not an autobiography. It is, rather, a kind of curriculum vitae -- my attempts to show how one writer was formed. Not how one writer was made; I don't believe writers can be made, either by circumstances or by itself will (although I did believe those things wands). The equipment comes with the original package. Yet it is by no means unusual equipment; I believe large numbers of people have at least some talented writers and storytellers, and that those talents can be strengthened and sharpened. If I didn't believe that, writing a book like this would be a waste of time.
This is how it was funny, that's all -- a disjointed growth process in which ambition, desire, look, and a little talent, all played a part Don't bother trying to read between the lines, and don't look through a through line. There are no lines -- only snapshots, most out of focus.
I'll never type again August 19, 2008
Dave C (Stockport)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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? July 30, 2008
Steven Pearson (U.K, Essex)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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+ ! June 10, 2008
Mr. A. M. HOGG (London, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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. May 10, 2008
Arpana INFJ (Birmingham United Kingdom)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
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