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ScanSoft Dragon Naturally Speaking 8 Standard | 
 enlarge | From: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: $109.99
Buy New: $88.99
You Save: $21.00 (19%)
New (2) Used (1) from $79.00
Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 2849
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp Professional, Windows Xp Home Edition
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8 x 2.8
MPN: e68361
Model: A309A-G00-8.0
UPC: 780420112179
EAN: 0780420112179
ASIN: B00030096W
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new@Factory sealed@Exactly as pictured with microphone@Ships today@
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| Features:
| • | Speech recognition software for dictating, editing, and controlling applications | | • | Surf the Web and access information by speaking URLs and links | | • | Teach software to recognize your voice in as few as 5 minutes | | • | Nothing But Speech technology eliminates "ums" and "ahs" from dictation | | • | Free high-quality headset microphone with noise canceling technology included |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Standard will change the way you think about PCs. You'll be faster, and have more fun, as you create letters, reports, and e-mails -- all by speaking. Just talk, and you can surf the web, open and close applications, even control your mouse and the entire desktop! It's the breakthrough in speech recognition that you have been waiting for: A breakthrough in accuracy, delivering an amazing 25% increase and up to an astounding 99% speech to text conversion level. Smart Formatting handles dates, measurements and acronyms to meet your requirements
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| Customer Reviews: Read 40 more reviews...
 dragon naturally speaking April 19, 2008
Jeff Spurrier
do not buy this program. it doesn't install and any trouble shooting requires a credit card payment.
 Excellent dictation program. February 1, 2007
Bad Bernanke (Chandler, AZ USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a retired attorney who has experimented with earlier versions of the Dragon software over the last eight to 10 years. I was never quite satisfied with the performance of the product. However, I now own version 9 and have found it to be a very useful and accurate product. If I were still practicing law, I would unquestionably utilize a program like this in my practice. Because I did not like being tied to my computer by a microphone cable, I purchased a wireless microphone (by Nady - which I have also reviewed) which works even better than the wired headset that came with the program. The program required less than one-half hour of setup although I have continued to train the program to meet the needs of my particular voice patterns. This dictation is much more accurate than my typing, and I have found that correcting errors is a fairly simple process as well. My only regret is that I purchased the basic program, rather than an advanced program. Now that I see how well the product works, I wish that I had a more specialized vocabulary and the ability to dictate in more than just English as I am fluent in Spanish and have a growing acquaintance with French. Incidentally, I dictated this review and use the dictation program regularly to respond to and send e-mails, as well as dictate letters, memoranda and outlines in Microsoft word. It may be relevant to note that I am not using an underpowered computer system. I have an AMD dual core system with 2 MB of RAM. I am certain that there is a combination of good programming and growing computer power that makes a program such as this functional.
Thank You, my fingers hurt January 9, 2007
Lizzette T. Anderson (Queens, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is such a great product. And it is so easy to use. Talk and they appear on the screen like magic. WOW! Great Buy and Great Gift.
 Skeptical User December 29, 2006
F. O'neal (Barbados)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I think this product is highly overated and this claim
of being 99% accurate is false.
Once in while it can amaze you by typing a sentence with 100% accuracy , but this enthusiasm is quickly dashed when
you realise that the very next sentence is complete
gibberish which bears absolutely no relation to what you
said and you wonder how it could have possibly interpeted
what you have in that manner.
I think this program maybe accent sensitive so that a person with an American accent may get good results while
a person with a British or an Australian accent may get poor results for the same level of training.
In summary I think the program is unreliable with an
accuracy of 45% at its present level of developement.
It has plenty of potential and with future developement
it could much more reliable but at its present level of
developement I think the performance is mediocre.
pc-requirement seems false November 10, 2006
Dirk
I think that the Version 8 pc-RAM requirement that the manufacturer Nuance has published is false on webpage : it says that a pc with "256 MB RAM" is sufficient; but i could not get the product to be useful, even after much trying, some tantilizing results, and much optimizing and training of the product by me. Then I accidentally discovered a seemingly contradictory requirement stated inside the software: "(256 mb FREE minimum)" (capitals added).
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