Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5.0 Preferred Edition USB

by Riverdeep

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004WESA
• Item model number: 01-370-50-01
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 25, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,486 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

With Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5.0 Preferred Edition USB, you can create, edit, and revise documents and e-mail--even surf the Web--entirely by voice. Just speak, and your words appear in business letters, reports, e-mail, and virtually all Windows-based applications. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5.0 Preferred Edition USB makes it easy to edit and format text, and change fonts, colors, and sizes--all by voice. Insert phrases and paragraphs with only a few words. Listen to text and e-mail aloud by replaying your recorded speech. You even can browse the Web hands-free. Adapted for American, Australian, British, Indian, and Southeast Asian speakers of English.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

62 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dragon Naturally Speaking 5.0 Pref. USB, January 6, 2001

By A Customer

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This review is from: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5.0 Preferred Edition USB (CD-ROM)

I used an older version and found it frustrating. I bought this version, with the USB connection for clearer transmission and better performance, and I am quite impressed. I use it to dictate medical notes and it has learned most of the technical/medical terms. I have spent, probably, 5-6 hours on it training and teaching it the medical terms. It doesn't cease to amaze me at how well it does. If it makes a mistake it can be corrected and will be much less likely to make the same mistake again.The digital USB converter can be a nightmare to install!

54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dragon USB Very Accurate, March 27, 2001

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Charles Patrick (Miami, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5.0 Preferred Edition USB (CD-ROM)

I am a trial attorney who has been using Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred USB 5.0 for about 8 months on a lap top computer. The system is very accurate and useful. I use it to dictate correspondence, deposition summaries and pleadings. The system is over 95% accurate at 150 words per minute. I am concerned about the bankruptcy of L & H since the product is the best voice activated system around. Hopefully someone will pick up the product and move forward.

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NaturallySpeaking 5.0 USB is now even better, December 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5.0 Preferred Edition USB (CD-ROM)

This product really works amazingly well. Right out of the box (after 5 minutes of training) you can get close to 92% accuracy. The program learns from errors as you correct them so it quickly becomes even more accurate. I generally get no more than one or two errors per paragraph.

The USB mic makes all the difference on a laptop. (Laptops generally work less well for speech regcognition because the density of components produces interference when using a standard headset mic.)

Not sure what happened with Carol (review below) but there must be some basic configuration problem with her system, incompatible sound card or microphone. The problem could be that if her daughter is using the product she may not be using the correct speech model for teens. The software is normally tuned for adult voices only, so recognition would be terrible if you used the regular 'speech model' for a teenager. I'd reccomend calling tech support for help since they'd be keenly interested in getting it to work properly for her.

This stuff really does work and PC Magazine and PC world seem to agree on that if your read their reviews. PC Magazine got 98% accuracy after initial training and half an hour corrections.