Professional Edition

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Dragon NaturallySpeaking™ Professional Edition, Ver. 7

"It’s a revolutionary breakthrough that delivers more than I expected."

-- BYTE Magazine, August 1998

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is the world's first software product that recognizes and creates general text from normal continuous speech.

Speak Naturally:

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional, today’s most powerful PC speech product from Dragon Systems, is ideal for the business and professional environment. Speak at a conversational pace and your spoken words are transcribed immediately onto your computer screen and into your document.  You really do just "Speak Naturally".

Features:

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional features include:

• customized speech commands that perform routine actions
• speech-controlled editing and mouse control
• the ability to add new terminology to the vocabulary automatically.

Total Speech Solution:

Customize Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional to work with your projects and improve turnaround time. With a few simple steps, using the New Command Wizard, you can create powerful macros and templates, fill in forms, and much more.

Easily produce macro commands to insert company history, medical procedures, legal boilerplate, or other standard text you regularly use. You can also format text and open and navigate menus through multiple applications to create a seamless environment for the end user.

Powerful Vocabulary Management:

You can choose from one of three active vocabulary sizes with 30,000, 45,000 or 160,000 words. Already a larger built-in active size provides you more words that are readily available for the program to choose from when recognizing your speech. Using the largest active vocabulary can dramatically decrease "new word errors", thereby further improving your accuracy and throughput.

You can use the Topic BuilderÔ to automate the addition of new words from your electronic files.

Includes a high-quality headset microphone

Top 10 Features:

• True Continuous Speech: speak to your computer naturally and at a normal pace -up to 160 words per minute and more-without pausing between words.
• Highly Accurate: an independent study by PC Week Labs finds accuracy to be "95% or higher." PC World reports 98% accuracy. Words are spelled correctly every time.
• Speech Commands: with the Command WizardÔ 
• Compatibility: dictate directly into MicrosoftÒ Word 97. With NaturalWordÔ  you can dictate directly into a Microsoft Word document.
• New Word Additions: add more than 50,000 custom names and specialized terms to the vocabulary automatically using Topic BuilderÔ.
• Personalize the Vocabulary: automatically add unique words, terms, and names. The Topic Builder^TM finds words in text files and enters the words, their pronunciations, and the word usage information into your personal vocabulary.
• Text-to-Speech: listen as your own documents or other files such as e-mail are read aloud to you.
• Dictation Playback: listen to a recording of what you said before you edit or make a correction, in order to "proof" your text.
• Correct and Edit Anytime: concentrate on your work, not on your keyboard. Changes can be made as you go or later.
• Select and Say^TM: easily edit, format, or correct words and phrases. Say "select" followed by the words you want to change. Then, say the new words or a command such as "bold that."

System Requirements:

Dragon Systems recommendations:

• Minimum 500 MHz Pentium Processor IBM-compatible PC
• Windows; 95 or 98, Windows NT 4.0, XP
• Dragon certified or equivalent quality sound card such as the Sound Blaster 16^Ò or Sound Blaster AWE32^Ô card or built-in audio. Contact Dragon Systems for the most up-to-date list (or see our website). Speakers required for multimedia online Help and Quick Tour.
• CD ROM for installation.
• Hard disk requirements: 65 MB
  +40 MB additional to save recorded speech
  +15 MB additional to install Text-to-Speech

• Minimum Memory requirements*:
  128 - 512 MB
  Windows 95 (30,000 words active) -- add 40 MB
  Windows 95 (greater than 30,000 words active) -- add 48 MB
  Windows NT 4.0                                                                                   XP

*More memory may be required depending on your software configurations.

A.D.A. WorkLink recommendations:

We've been selling Dragon products since 1990 and offer our suggestions: Pentium  IV 900 MHz or faster CPU, 256-512 MB SDRAM or more, and SoundBlaster 16 or equivalent.).  

Realistically, if you want adequate performance, you should buy the fastest and most powerful CPU/RAM combination you can afford.  

Voice recognition processing is very CPU and RAM intensive. 

Please call us and we'll tell you how your hardware stacks up.