Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Standard [OLD VERSION]
![Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Standard [OLD VERSION]](/Images/B000GUDDXA/medium.jpg) | Average Customer Rating: Recommend With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Standard you can talk to your computer and watch words quickly appear in documents, e-mails, instant messages and even surf the web simply by speaking. It's amazingly accurate - up to 99% and really easy to use. There's no script reading or "voice training" required, so you can get started dictating right away. Perfect for the whole family - busy parents, kids just learning to type, and even grandparents.… Product details and pricing info |
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163 Customer Reviews Posted
- Pretty good so far
- I have only been using it for one day so I can't speak to much other than it was easy to install, easy to train, fairly easy to use, and had a surprising amount of preinstalled names. I am looking forward to getting used to it to make corrections as it doesn't always hear me correctly but so far so good. I have never used another product like this so I am unfamiliar with anything else to make a comparison but I am sure it is far superior to previous versions.
- 2008-06-26, 0 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Obvoiusly not ready for the real marketplace
- I recently purchased this product, and while it was a fun novelty for the first few minutes, the unpredictability and instablity of the product soon revealed that it was not really something that I could really use to do actual work.
The interface unpredictabily decided to stop taking any dictation while in MS word, so the only way to get anything into Word is to use a special window. If you speak at a normal pace as the instructions continually stress, the product gets so far behind that you have no idea what it has understood or missed.
Without a doubt the future of computing will revolve around natural human speech commands, and at times this product offers glimpses of that, but the current state of this product is as far from that future as the Wright brothers were from a spaceship. The only reason that I gave it 1 star is that you cannot rate it lower. - 2008-06-26, 2 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Terrible and Unreliable Product
- In my very humble opinion I strongly suggest no one purchase Dragon Naturally Speaking Standard version 9. It is highly unreliable; there is no customer support, unless if you're willing to pay for it and it is a complete waste of money.
I purchased this version because I was satisfied with their version 4. At first it seemed to work quite well - but notice I say at first. I went through the various training sessions to improve the accuracy and thought things were going along quite well until I made the mistake of shutting down the computer before closing Dragon Naturally Speaking. The next time I've booted up and tried to open this program I got the message, "The vocabulary you have chosen ..... is incompatible for invalid". What a shock! I tried a couple of times and got the same message. The only option left was to create a new user or remove and then reinstall the program, essentially starting all over again.
Well, I did remove and reinstall the program and did the training again. What a pain! A month later I again happen to shut down the computer before closing out Dragon Naturally Speaking. You guessed it, I had to go through the whole process again which was remove and reinstall the program. Oh, and let's not forget the training.
Everything went along fairly well, though the recognition wasn't all that great anymore, until I was working away and lost the power to my house. Yep, to use the program I would have to remove it and reinstall it. That was the final straw.
I'm now using the speech recognition program that comes with the Microsoft operating system and it is doing as well as Dragon Naturally Speaking. The Microsoft program doesn't seem to have all the bells and whistles as the other but it works and I didn't have to pay for it. - 2008-06-14, 3 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.5 Spanish
- I was impressed with product, even though Nuance says you can't have 2 languages, american english and latin american spanish. It works great on my machine. You need a least of 1 gig ram, I am running vista ultimate. the trick is to install the english first and then the spanish version. Then you set up one user in american english and then the other in latin american spanish and flip back and forth by switching users. Another key is that both languages have to be the same version 9.5. I would recommend it. Only drawback is tech support you have to pay after first free one.Thats why I didn't give it a 5.
- 2008-06-06, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- What a shame
- This product types words that aren't even close to what you're saying. It really was a waste of time and money. I purchased the headset microphone to go along with the software and it was even worse. I'm not a hard person to please, and I never write reviews, but this product is ridiculous, buyers please don't waste your money.
- 2008-06-05, 2 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
