Dragon NaturallySpeaking 6.0 Essentials

by ScanSoft

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• ASIN: B00006412Y
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,112 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Essentials is an ideal, affordable introduction to speech recognition for ages 9 and older. This fast, fun, accurate, and easy-to-use program lets you navigate your computer with your voice, thus freeing up your hands for other tasks. Talk to your computer and your words instantly appear in e-mail, chat rooms, instant messages, and more.

Send instant messages and chat online as fast as you can speak, create e-mail, and surf the Web by voice. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Essentials lets you browse, search, and scroll up and down Web pages simply by speaking Web addresses and links. It learns to recognize your voice in fewer than five minutes. A noise-canceling microphone is included.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Long time computer user, December 10, 2002

By 

Rich (Los Altos, Ca USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 6.0 Essentials (CD-ROM)

I've been using computers for over 30 years now and the speech recognition of Dragon is one of the best, innovative ideas that I've seen for the industry in a long time.

When I have a lot of word processing or data entry work to do, the ability to just talk and have the text appear on the screen at 150+ wpm is very effective. Sure there are a few errors, but I make typos often as well, so its about a push.

Speech recognition will be a big factor in our future lives in many, many ways, not just for entering text. Commands to cars, cell phones, appliances, etc. will all come to fruition in the next few years.

49 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best speech recognition software around..., December 24, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 6.0 Essentials (CD-ROM)

I bought this software recently and was pretty skeptical about speech recognition capabilities in general. After using Dragon 6 I really changed my mind. Not only the speech technology is very efficient but the software also has a lot of functionalities to drive your computer by using speech.

When you buy the software don't get confused with Dragon 5.0 which is the old version and which has nothing to do with the capabilities of Dragon 6.0. Dragon 6 is also way better that IBM Via Voice that I tried at a friend's place. Anyway, Scansoft the maker of Dragon 6.0 is the leading speech software company so you can't be wrong. One thing: the training of the software is very quick and easy.

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to Install, easy to use, good results!, December 8, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 6.0 Essentials (CD-ROM)

I was not sure of the quality of this software when I first bought it. I used other voice-typing programs in the past, and I have to tell you that nothing measures up to Dragon NaturallySpeaking Essentials 6!!! It was easy to install, not too difficult to master, and had great results. The speech formatting software-to recongnize indiviual speakers- was great! I think that overall, it was a great buy! I recomend it to anyone with some free time and a little bit of patience!