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INCLUDES PHILIPS 7630 VOICETRACER DIGITAL RECORDER
Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Preferred 9 gives small business and advanced PC
users the power to create documents, reports, emails and more - all by speaking!
Fast, easy and amazingly accurate, it’s over three times faster than typing. No
script reading required to get started! Just use your voice to dictate and edit
in Microsoft® Word and Excel®, Corel® WordPerfect® and virtually all
Windows®-based applications. You can even dictate into a handheld device when
you’re away from your PC, or use a Bluetooth microphone! Browse, search and
navigate the Web just by talking! Listen to incoming email and documents read
aloud. Use dictation shortcuts that enable you to insert blocks of texts or
bitmaps - such as your name, title and signature - with a single voice command.
A Nuance-approved noise-cancelling microphone is also included.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking® 9 will make small business and advanced PC users
more productive than ever before:
Feature highlights
- *IMPROVED* Unprecedented Speech Recognition Accuracy: Dragon
NaturallySpeaking 9’s improved speech engine is more accurate than Version
8.
- *NEW* No Training Required: Get started with Dragon
NaturallySpeaking 9 without having to read any scripts or training text.
- *NEW* Expanded Support for New Applications. Dragon
NaturallySpeaking 9 supports Firefox and Thunderbird from Mozilla.
- *NEW* New Tutorials simplify the training process, so you can be
an expert Dragon NaturallySpeaking user right away.
- *NEW* Support for Non-standard Edit Controls means you get full
Dragon functionally, such as “select and say” in more applications than ever
before. New supported edit controls include Borland’s Tmemo, Tedit &
TRichEdit controls, as well as TE Edit from SubSystems and TX Text from TX
Text Control.
- *NEW* Select-And-Say Indicator. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9
includes a new indicator that lets you know when you have “Select and Say”
functionality available.
- *IMPROVED*. The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Command Browser is
faster and easier to use than ever before.
- *NEW* Bluetooth Wireless Microphone Support With Dragon
NaturallySpeaking 9, you can use a Nuance-approved Bluetooth microphone as
an input device, meaning you are no longer tethered to your PC.
- Dictate Into More Handheld Devices Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9
also supports handheld digital recorders and other PDAs that record in .wma
and .mp3 format for deferred transcription.
- Smart Formatting lets you specify how to format dates,
measurements, acronyms or any word to meet your requirements.
- Add terms and contact names: Scan your documents, contact names
and sent e-mails to update your vocabulary so you never have to spell a name
again.
- Dictate into your favourite programs: Dictate directly into
virtually any Microsoft® Windows®-based application.
- Navigate your desktop by voice: Launch or switch applications,
save or print documents, and more, using menu commands for all standard
Windows®-based applications.
- Get started quickly: Teach the software to recognise your voice
in as few as five minutes.
- Eliminate “ums” and “ahs” from your dictation: The built-in
Nothing But Speech (NBS)™ technology increases accuracy by filtering out
inadvertent fillers and sounds between words.
- Use spelling, numbers, commands only and dictation only modes:
Increase your accuracy when completing specific tasks by voice by using
optional spelling, numbers, commands only and dictation only modes.
- Control the mouse by voice: Use multiple methods - including
commands like “Move Mouse upper left” - to work handsfree.
- Work on the Web by voice: Search the Web, access information and
navigate Web pages by speaking URLs and links.
- Make corrections in many ways: Select and correct a misrecognised
word - using voice, mouse, or keyboard - without going into a correction
window, and the software will learn from your correction
- Give commands naturally: Built-in Natural Language Commands let
you phrase commands in a variety of ways to get the response you want in
many applications, including the DragonBar, DragonPad, Microsoft® Internet
Explorer and America Online®
- Find commands easily: The improved Command Browser enables you to
search for commands by application and keyword.
- Edit by voice: Use Select-and-Say® to make text changes by voice
in many dialogs and applications.
- Navigate in Microsoft® Outlook® Express: Use built-in
command-and-control commands to navigate more easily in Microsoft® Outlook®
Express.
- Work in Microsoft® Word and Corel® WordPerfect®: Dictate, edit,
and navigate more easily in Microsoft® Word and Corel® WordPerfect®.
- Give commands naturally: Use additional built-in Natural Language
Commands for Microsoft® Word and Corel® WordPerfect®.
- Natural Punctuation: When dictating casual writing styles, you no
longer have to say “period” and “comma”.
- Share Vocabularies among Acoustic Profiles. With Multiple
Acoustics you can use a single vocabulary for your microphone and handheld
recorder profiles.
- Proofread with dictation playback: Play back what you said so
that you can edit and correct your work.
- Listen to text in the most human-sounding voice available: Hear
any text, such as incoming email, read aloud using Text-to-Speech
(RealSpeak™ 2 text-to-speech software).
- Import or export your user profile: Save your profile on a
portable storage device, such as a CD-R or USB drive.
- Enter commonly-used text and graphics: Create text blocks -
including graphics - and insert them into documents or emails using a single
voice command (macro).
- Give commands naturally: Use additional built-in Natural Language
Commands for Microsoft® Excel.
FEATURE LIMITATIONS
- No roaming user (requires Professional or higher)
- No Citrix thin-client support
- No custom vocabularies (requires Professional or higher)
- No dynamic text shortcuts (requires Professional or higher)
- No macro recorder support (requires Professional or higher)
- No complex macro support (requires Professional or higher)
- No advanced scripting to make forms and applications that can be
navigated by voice (requires Professional or higher)
- No support for third party correction (requires Professional or higher)
- No specialised support for Lotus Notes®, Microsoft® Outlook®,
PowerPoint® or InfoPath® (requires Professional or higher)
- No DNS Administrator to manage vocabularies and profiles from a central
network location (requires Professional or higher)
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- Intel® Pentium® 4 / 1 GHz processor (or equivalent AMD processor –
faster processors will yield faster performance)
- 512 MB RAM
- 1 GB free hard disk space
- Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP1 or higher) Home and Professional, 2000 (SP4
or higher)
- Creative® Labs Sound Blaster® 16 or equivalent sound card supporting
16-bit recording
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5 or higher (free download available at
www.microsoft.com)
- CD-ROM drive (required for installation)
- Nuance-approved noise-cancelling headset microphone (included)
- Speakers (required for playback of recorded speech and text to speech
features)
- A web connection is required for activation
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