Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Preferred
Overview
Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Preferred is an accurate,
affordable, easy-to-use speech recognition application that enables home,
small office/home office, business, and educational users to create and edit
documents, reports, spreadsheets, and e-mail—all by voice.
Users can dictate memos, reports, and other documents; enter data; fill-in
forms; send e-mail; and work on the Web-all by voice!
Perform tasks on your computer with a spoken word
or phrase, customize your vocabulary,
listen to incoming e-mail and documents read aloud, and much more.
Create your own documents on the spot. Dictate directly into a PC or an approved
Recorder for personal
transcription.
NaturallySpeaking®
Preferred includes support for Bluetooth microphones and other specialty
microphones and allows dictation
directly into a PC, Pocket PC, or an approved
Recorder for personal or third-party
transcription.
Typical Users?
Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Preferred
Edition is an ideal tool
for individuals,
professionals and corporations who do not
need to use custom voice commands, small offices/home office users who
transcribe their own documents, mobile workers who want to be productive
outside the office, and university and secondary school professors/teachers
and students.
In addition, employers who seek to meet
OSHA safety recommendations, enable workers with repetitive strain injuries
or other disabilities to use personal computers, or to accommodate people
with disabilities under Section 508 or the Americans with Disabilities Act
will also benefit from purchasing Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Preferred.
The market for Dragon NaturallySpeaking®
Preferred overlaps with the Solution Series (NaturallySpeaking®
Professional, Medical, Legal, or Public Safety), but Preferred buyers either
do not have the funds/budget to invest in the Solution Series, do not have
the need for and/or interest in the additional functionality, command and
customization capabilities offered by the Solution Series, or do not know
about the Solution Series. Click here to learn more about the
NaturallySpeaking Solution Series.
Create business letters, e-mail,
spreadsheets, and reports by voice
with
Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Preferred
NaturallySpeaking® Preferred Benefits:
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Saves time by enabling personal computer users to create
documents, reports, and spreadsheets; send e-mail; and browse the Web—all
by voice |
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Increases productivity
when away from home or office. |
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Helps address Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 508 requirements. |
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Protects users from
developing Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) and helps employees with RSI
return to work. |
NaturallySpeaking®
Preferred Product Features
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Breakthrough Speech Recognition Accuracy
More accurate than ever before, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred 10 has up
to 20% fewer speech recognition
errors “out of the box” than version 9 and is up to 40-50% more accurate for versions 8 and below.
And it actually gets smarter the more you use it!
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Regional Accent Support
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Expanded in V10
Significant increase in accuracy for accented speakers by using more
advanced adaptation techniques and accent-specific models. Version
10 includes: Indian, Spanish, British, Australian, SE Asian, Southern
US and Inland Northern US (Great Lakes area) accented English models.
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| Faster than Typing!
Most people speak over 120 words per minute, but type less than 40 words a
minute. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred lets you create letters and e-mails about
three times faster than typing by hand! Also, Dragon
NaturallySpeaking Preferred 10 has a significant improvement of response time with more
than 50% reduction in the time it takes for words to appear. |
| So easy to use!
You’ll be dictating letters, e-mails and surfing the web by voice right
away!
Expanded tutorials help new users learn the product.
- Expanded in V10! |
| Use with virtually any Windows® applications!
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Expanded in V10!
Use your voice to dictate, edit and control virtually any Windows
application, including the full Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Internet
Explorer, and Corel® WordPerfect®. Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Preferred automatically integrates with many popular applicationsy. |
| Comprehensive Vocabulary
and Customization Wizards
Dragon NaturallySpeaking® software comes with a vocabulary of more than
250,000 standard and business terms.
See below for vocabulary optimization.
Can the vocabulary be customized? NaturallySpeaking®
Professional provides many techniques for customizing your
vocabulary. The Vocabulary
Builder™ feature analyzes your documents automatically to find and add new
words, specialized terms, acronyms, and proper names.
It's easy to add new words/names/terms
in batches or on-the-fly. You can also create or import custom vocabularies for
different specialties or interests. To hit the ground running,
consider contracting with IMAGE Management, your
NaturallySpeaking® provider, for initial vocabulary customization.
See the end of this page for a link to our
contract services information. |
| Create custom voice commands (macros) to insert
boilerplate text or graphics -- commonly used paragraphs, logos, etc. that
you can insert with just a verbal command! These
verbal shortcuts can type letters,
numbers, punctuation and the {Enter} and {Tab} keys. (If you need more
advanced command capability (to automate complex tasks, launch
applications, etc.), consider the
NaturallySpeaking more advanced business products:
Medical, Legal or Professional products).) |
Examples of custom macros that can be created:
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You say: "Insert company
overview"
Resulting action: Your standard company description is
automatically
inserted in your document in the type size and style
that you want. |
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You say: "Sign Letter"
Resulting action: Your name, title,
and signature, or other text and bitmaps is
automatically inserted in your document. |
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You say: "System
Requirements"
Resulting action: The system requirements of the product you
sell/support
are typed into your document. |
Who creates the commands? Dragon
NaturallySpeaking Preferred includes thousands of commands for commonly used tasks
and provides the additional ability to create custom voice
commands. The dictator,
an organizational staff person, or your Certified Partner, IMAGE Management, can
create your macros. Also, macros can be exported and shared with other
colleagues, if desired. To hit the ground
running, consider contracting with us for initial template/ command/application
development. See the end of this page for a link to our
contract services information.
| Control your desktop and work on the web by voice
Open applications from the Start menu and switch from one application to
another by speaking commands like "Start Internet Explorer."
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| Search the Web, access information, and navigate Web
pages by speaking URLs and links. (Note, for maximum verbal
navigation capability, Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 or higher, AOL 7,
8 or 9, or Mozilla FireFox are the
recommended browsers.)
Support for Mozilla FireFox and ThunderBird -
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| Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Web Search
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New in V10
Collapse common multi-step web search tasks into fast,
direct voice commands. Now you can search the Web for information,
products, news and more — faster than ever — with just a voice command.
(See
the feature highlight.
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| Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Desktop Search
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New in V10
Collapse common multi-step desktop search tasks into direct voice
commands. Now you can search your computer — faster than ever — with
just a voice command. (Requires either Windows Vista Search or
Google Desktop) |
| Quick Voice Formatting
“Delete | Copy | Bold | Underline | Italicize
” commands) allows you to delete/format
text faster than ever.
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New in V10
New direct commands for formatting, deleting, and copying words and
passages. (See
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| Improved Auto-Transcription
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Enhanced in V10
The background transcription routine, the Auto-Transcribe Folder Agent, now
allows both the audio and the transcribed text of a digital voice
recording to be saved for later proofreading and review. |
| Support for BlueTooth and other Wireless microphones
Use Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred with Nuance-approved Bluetooth and
other wireless
microphones. Give dictators the
freedom to dictate without being tethered to their PC. |
| Mobile Dictation with Digital Recorders & Other Devices
Users
can "talk-and-dock" with handheld digital
recorders
(and Pocket PC/Palm One™
Tungsten™ devices with recording capability), to record mobile dictation for transcription by
the Dragon software when they attach or synch to their PCs. |
| Mainstream Dictation Through Natural Punctuation
While many professionals are accustomed to speaking punctuation, Dragon
does not require that users say "period" or "comma" when creating e-mail
messages, sending instant message text or completing Web-based forms by
voice. |
| Multiple
Acoustic Sources
With multiple acoustic sources, users can use a single vocabulary for your
microphone and handheld recorder profiles. |
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Smart Formatting
Smart Formatting allows you to specify how Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Preferred
formats dates, measurements and acronyms to meet your requirements. You
can even establish the specific configuration of any word depending on its
context, such as before or after numbers. |
| Eliminate "ums" and "ahs" from your dictation
The built-in Nothing But Speech (NBS)™ tool increases accuracy by
filtering out inadvertent fillers and sounds between words.
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| Listen to your mail and other documents read aloud
The award-winning Nuance RealSpeak™ text-to-speech technology that
reads your documents and e-mail back to you in a human-sounding voice. |
Recommended
System Requirements for NaturallySpeaking V10
NOTE:
The
install process checks to make sure your system meets these minimum
requirements. If your PC does not meet the minimums, the software will not
install.
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Processor:
Recommend
2.4 GHz (1.6 GHz dual
core) or equivalent processor
(Absolute minimum is Intel 1 GHz (or equivalent AMD processor))
Faster processors will yield faster performance! |
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Additional Processor Requirement: SSE2 Support
To improve the recognition speed
by reducing computation time and latency, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 was
designed to use SSE2 technology. SSE2 is supported by almost all
processors sold since 2006, but some systems that meet the processor speed
requirement do not support SSE2. Click
here for info about a freeware utility that can tell you if your processor
supports SSE2.
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Memory: Recommend 2 GB + RAM or more, depending on
your desired applications. (Absolute minimum is 1GB for Windows
Vista or 512 MB for other supported operating systems.
Examine your work to determine the memory requirements of all programs you
need to run simultaneously. |
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L2 Cache: 1MB. (Absolute minimum is 512KB) |
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Hard Disk Space: 1
GB free hard disk space. Space needed can increase based on number of users and
number of vocabularies per user. |
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Operating System:
Microsoft® Windows® Vista or
Vista SP1 (32-bit versions), Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 or higher (32-bit
versions - Home and Professional), 2000 (SP4 or higher) and Windows
Service 2000/2003. |
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Additional OS Support for Medical, Professional & Legal Editions
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Citrix
MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0 or 4.5 |
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Audio System: Creative®
Sound Blaster® 16 or equivalent sound card capable of 16-bit recording (to
plug microphone into) or microphone (purchased separately) with alternative
connectivity (USB, BlueTooth, etc.) |
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Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 or
higher to support online help (free download available at
www.microsoft.com) |
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DVD-ROM
drive (required for installation of software)
If you don't have a DVD-ROM on a needed PC, you can copy the install files
to an accessible network drive or USB drive. Also, Nuance has a
software download site for customers if they do not have a DVD
reader/player. We can help you liaise with Nuance Technical Support &
Customer Service to gain access to this site. |
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Speakers (required for hearing
tutorial, playback of recorded speech and text to speech features) |
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A web connection is required for
activation |
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For Citrix deployment system
requirements, please contact Image Management, LLC.
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Certified Microphone. A Nuance-approved,
noise-canceling headset microphone is included with each full copy of
NaturallySpeaking but user may desire
different style/connectivity microphones or extra microphones for use with
additional PCs. An UPGRADE does not include a
microphone, because it is assumed the dictator is using the microphone from
their original purchase. Other/additional
microphone options are
available.
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Attaching a recorder (purchased
separately) will require a port (USB, serial, etc. depending on the
model.)
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What comes with the product?
The product includes: software on
DVD (1 DVD),
documentation and headset microphone. An upgrade does not
include a headset microphone.
Are you a power user? Check out
the Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Solution
Series!
Are you a power
user? Are you in the legal, medical, or public safety
professions?
Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Preferred is the entry
point of the NaturallySpeaking® business user product family. For all the benefits
of the Preferred Edition plus
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Advanced command
capability so you can create commands to perform series of steps to
streamline your workflow
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Ability to create
multiple vocabularies
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Save dictation for your own later
review/editing or for proof-reading by support staff or a transcriptionist
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Specialized
vocabulary and language models for your profession
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Consider
Dragon NaturallySpeaking®
Professional,
Dragon Medical,
Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Legal
HOW TO ORDER!
CLICK HERE TO ORDER NOW!
Academic-Government-NonProfit customers, click here to order.
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Notes regarding
Pricing:
| Call/email
for quantity pricing. (i.e., 4 users, 20 users, etc.) volume pricing is available for this product.
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Do you need to
upgrade from a previous version? See our
Upgrades Page!
Services Info
IMAGE Management, LLC has been selling and supporting speech
recognition since 1993! We are a Nuance Gold Certified Partner and Nuance Certified Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Instructors
(SCDI) representing the Dragon NaturallySpeaking®
product line and related products.
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