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Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 (Standard Edition) (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: £79.99
Buy New: £49.98
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Rating:  14 reviews
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows 98
Media: CD-ROM
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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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.
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 I love this software! October 17, 2006
Paul S. Weaver (Brighouse, W Yorks United Kingdom)
76 out of 79 found this review helpful
This product really does do what it says it does and makes typing effortless. As you would expect I am writing this review using Dragon voice recognition software. The accuracy rate is simply stunning. Within 20 minutes of installing the software I was able to dictate the entire front page of the Guardian newspaper with only three corrections required. I have been a fan of Dragon and its various incarnations over the last five years but this version does seem to be as near perfect as I can imagine. My only minor reservation is that I have not been able to successfully get it to work with my nine-year-old daughter's voice. However she gets an excellently with version 8.
As for the previous reviewer who really seems to have struggled with the programme, all I can think of is that the programme is fairly demanding in terms of system resources and needs a minimum of 1 GB of RAM. This would explain the frequent crashes he was experiencing. If like me you are a fairly mediocre typist then this software is completely liberating and a joy to use. So far during this dictation I have only had to make one correction. I have the preferred edition which does claim to offer greater compatibility with other programmes. However even version 8 in its standard form allowed me to dictate into virtually any programme. The only limitation was that in some programmes I could not correct and train mistakes.
All in all I think this is a superb programme that almost makes the dictation process a pleasure.
 Reduces my keyboard use by 80% May 22, 2007
Owen Palmer (Spain)
47 out of 47 found this review helpful
Perhaps the best way of reviewing this software is by reading a text and not correcting it so that you can see how many errors Dragon naturally speaking makes.
Here is an extract taken from The Reason Why, by Cecil Woodham-Smith:
Before The Light Brigade had advanced 50 yards the Russian guns crashed out, and great clouds of smoke rose at the end of the valley. A moment later an extraordinary and inexplicable incident took place. The advance was proceeding at a steady trot when suddenly Nolan, riding beside his friend Captain Maurice in the first line, urged on his horse and galloped diagonally across the front.
Galloping madly a head and to the right, he crossed in front of Lord Cardigan -- an unprecedented breach of military etiquette -- and, turning in his saddle, shouted and waved his sword as if he would address The Brigade. Had he suddenly realised that his interpretation of the order had been wrong, and that in his impetuosity he had directed the Light Brigade to certain death? No one will ever know, because at that moment a Russian shell pressed on the right of Lord Cardigan, and a fragment tour at its way into Nolan's breast, exposing his heart.
As you can see, there are some errors, but once you have learnt to use the software correction is quite an easy process.I still use the keyboard, but much less than I used to.
I installed Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 on a Dell laptop with one Gb of RAM. the only technical problem that persists is that the software does not like to hibernate. I suspect that this is because the user files must be saved before shutting down the programme.
 hopeless September 20, 2006
nutella the hun (brighton,)
43 out of 70 found this review helpful
It's hard to believe that this software's on its ninth version and still so poor. It makes the same mistakes again and again, however much you train it. It crashes Thunderbird. It crashes OpenOffice. It doesn't work properly with Firefox. It hangs for no discernible reason. Touch the mike and it thinks its heard something... and hangs forever while it tries to work out what you've said. And unforgivably, there's no way of escaping the proces. If you enjoy swearing at your computer and repeatedly rebooting it, it's hard to think of a better way to spend 70 quid.
Can I give it 0 stars? August 27, 2007
S. Kaye (UK)
20 out of 25 found this review helpful
Wow, some sort of warning that this software won't run on a 64-bit system might have been useful. Of course, you have to open the software to find that out. It remains to be seen whether I can return this item or not!
Very pleased indeed October 31, 2007
Matthew D. Browning
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Having had an older version of NaturallySpeaking (7) I was aware of the versatility of this software. Unfortunately my old laptop went to the wall and when it my voice recognition software.
I returned to banging away on the keyboard which is frustrating and not very natural for me.
Once installed I was a bit disappointed to have to repeat the same training that I did on my old software, however 10 minutes later and it's all working.
And very impressed with the accuracy of version 9, the older versions required quite a lot of correcting and customising of the dictionary. In the hour since I've been using the new software I have hardly had to correct anything and I know that it is already adjusting itself to the kind of words I use.
Whatever anybody says about this software, it is simply the only voice recognition software (outside NASA) that actually does what it is supposed to do. For anybody who finds general typing a tedious process this programme is likely to enhance your ability and your motivation to put things down on paper.
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