An excellent voice recognition program! 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... more info
I'll never type again 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... more info
Naturally Speaking? 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... more info
A good product, but with some problems still in version 9+ ! 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... more info