Dragon NaturallySpeaking Home ( v. 11 ) - complete package

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• 5 stars

  Not worth the money you save over v.11

  by jakebullett on January 4, 2011

  Pros: Seems to work pretty well if you know how to speak correctly.

  Cons: Technical support is less than stellar. Does not work with Bluetooth technology. Nuance could care less if you're unhappy with the product.

  Summary: This product seems to function pretty well. I do not like having to say period after each sentence but oh well. I also do not like having to be tied ...

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  Summary: This product seems to function pretty well. I do not like having to say period after each sentence but oh well. I also do not like having to be tied down by a corded microphone and or headset when we have this wonderful thing called Bluetooth technology. For whatever reason nuance has decided to not support this technology with the home version. I'm speaking for myself when I say $150-$250 is just too much to spend solely for the purpose of using a Bluetooth microphone. One would think that there would be a patch or some sort of upgrade to make the software work with Bluetooth. When I clicked on the live chat button on nuance website, response was pretty quick but their resolution was extremely inadequate. In fact they gave me a phone number to tech support that put me in a loop and eventually hung up on me. Then I went back to the live chat support and got the same person i got be the first time and she could care less. So I hope whoever uses this product does not need technical support as they are unwilling to spend any time or give any suggestions to people that are using their lesser expensive product.

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• 8 stars

  An improvement of a good speech recognition program

  by LincNeb on December 4, 2010

  Pros: Very little time needed to train it to recognize a person's voice. It has excellent accuracy. Works on Windows 7 home ed. 64 bit operating system. It is very fast running. It works in various editor programs, or anywhere you need to enter text.

  Cons: Confusing instructions about activation of the product was given in the printed material that came with it. It was nearly impossible to register it with Nuance. Conflicting information was given on how much memory was needed to run the program..

  Summary: This version was a noticeable improvement over my Dragon Naturally Speaking, version 2.02 that ran on Windows 95, more than a decade back. I bought a Windows 7 computer (...

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  Summary: This version was a noticeable improvement over my Dragon Naturally Speaking, version 2.02 that ran on Windows 95, more than a decade back. I bought a Windows 7 computer (Compaq Presario PC, model # CQ5320F). The 2.02 version of Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) was designed to run on a 300MHz processor and perhaps 300-500 megabytes of memory. This version 11 is supposed to run on a netbook, according to what was said on the DNS box. When the program was installed in the Compaq it complained I didn't have enough RAM to run and I have 3 GB of RAM! The program installed and ran perfectly well in spite of this warning.
  
  I don't know how many times I tried to register on line, but Nuance's website wouldn't take my serial number! It was one character too long. I tried one final time to register DNS when they sent an email saying I failed to register. With the URL that was given in that, I think I finally registered my copy?
  
  On my computer the included headset and the program is very speedy and accurate. I like how DNS will dictate into just about anything, and not just an editor that is part of the program, as is the case with my 2.02 version of DNS. The only thing the old DNS could do outside the special editor is that it would paste by voice command in different sorts of open spaces designed to take written input. In version 11 you can actually dictate in many of these spaces, such as Netzero email. For the variety of programs that DNS has made an impressive advancement.
  
  Although I paid less than half price for it, because I got it during a Black Friday sale, I found that a little pricey, and I would never even have gotten it at full price. For what it does it does it very well. Since DNS is the only speech recognition program around, if you need one you're going to get this.
  
  It is interesting how they have kept some of the things that were part of DNS from over a decade ago. One of the voice training stories for voice recognition , such as, "How Do Computers Work?" is still there. It is quite amusing, though, you might not to get to find that out since the training part of the program setup takes so little time and reading.
  
  I would recommend this program, even it is still unknown to me if I ever got my copy of DNS registered? I would also wonder about the activation. I know my copy is workding fine. I will be happy with it, if it continues to do so.
  
  Updated on Dec 15, 2011

  I have just been recently benn trying this (By the way it is updated to 11.5 over the Internet, for free) on an Asus netbook Eee PC 1001PXD with 2GB of RAM. I am impressed! This is a type of program that you would want to use with a netbook, and with this particular netbook,it deserves an excellent rating.

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