Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Standard - A309A-K07-10.0

by Nuance

Product Details

• Item Weight: 9 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B002HJCVA4
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,663 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
  • #19 in Software > Business & Office > Communication > Voice Recognition
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 2, 2004

Product Description

Turn talk into text with speech recognitionsoftware!Product InformationWith Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Standard you can talk to your computer andwatch your spoken words instantly appear in documents email and instantmessages. You can even surf the Web just by speaking! Dragon NaturallySpeaking10 turns your voice into text three times faster than most people type - with upto 99% accuracy. It learns to recognize your voice instantly and continuallyimproves the more you use it! Just use your voice to dictate and edit invirtually any Windows application including Microsoft Word Internet ExplorerMozilla Firefox and AOL. This revolutionary and easy-to-use product gives youeverything you need to get started including a high-quality headset. Faster and more accurate than typing E-mail IM and and surf the Web - all by voice Perfect for use at home Perfect for the whole family from busy parents tokids just learning to type.New Features Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 introduces new graphical icons to enhance the DragonBar user interface making the product even easier to use. Quick Voice Formatting commands allow users to issue a single voice command such as "Bold Quick Voice Formatting" to make deleting and formatting text faster than ever. In addition unique Natural Language Commands mean users don't have to memorize complex instructions. In Word for example a user can say "make that bigger" and the font size increases instantly.Product Features Accurate speech recognition for PC applications - Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Standard offers unprecedented speech recognition with unrivaled accuracy levels: it's up to 20% more accurate than Version 9 with up to 50% more accurate results than the product delivered just five years ago. Users gain the added benefit of avoiding spelling errors and typing mistakes. In fact the produc

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this works wonderfully!, March 20, 2010

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L. Bruner "psych teacher" (Arizona) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Standard - A309A-K07-10.0 (CD-ROM)

I purchased this software for my 3rd grade dyslexic daughter from [...]. She loves it! I am tempted to get another one for me for work as well. We definitely speak faster that typing at 100 words a minute.

I first used this software about 9 years ago when I was teaching special education at the high school level. It has greatly improved since then. There are not nearly as many mistakes and the training process (teaching the computer to understand the way you speak/your accent) is simpler. It took about a half hour for her to train and she picked up on the phrases right away! She really enjoys writing emails to family now and controlling websites and Windows programs with her voice. She will start using it at school next week.

I'm so glad that she has a way to get her thoughts on screen/paper. She is creative, but was getting so frustrated with spelling that she began to shy away from writing. I believe will make a huge difference in her education.

If you are purchasing this for someone who is blind or dyslexic, you might need to whisper in his/her ear what the type says on the screen during training. Also, talking naturally in phrases or sentences before pausing works better than waiting for the word to come up before saying the next word. It uses the context to help figure out which words to use. For example, it will wait to hear the rest of a sentence when you start off with the word "There"/"Their"/"They're". If you want to have it include automatic punctuation (commas, periods, question marks, exclamation points) you can set it that way. I chose to turn it off so that my daughter has to tell it the punctuation to improve her writing skills.

I am really impressed with the advances this software has made over the years. There are also versions that work with phones/bluetooth and other devices, I believe. Enjoy!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dragon 10.0, October 6, 2010

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Dwain L. Eckberg, M.D. (Richmond, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Standard - A309A-K07-10.0 (CD-ROM)

I have used this product for about two weeks. In my view, this is a magnificent, sophisticated program. I could not be happier with it. The software recognizes extraordinarily complicated words. Words that are used uncommonly can be dictated for the software, and can be recognized by the software the next time they are used. I recommend this software highly. (I dictated this note using Dragon 10.0; I made no changes to the dictation.)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review, July 18, 2010

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Archibald L. J. Hall - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Standard - A309A-K07-10.0 (CD-ROM)

So far I have enjoyed the use of Dragon. The info needed to master the use of it are somewhat overwhelming;however going to the tutorials on an as needed basis makes it more manageable.