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First Look:
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Announced
Due to Ship August
- September, 2010
Current Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® users know first-hand
what this amazing speech recognition software can do for business
productivity. Imagine taking that productivity to the next level with
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Professional, the latest version of
Nuance’s enterprise-ready speech recognition software for the
PC.
We have just received our "Pre-Release" copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Professional. We were happy to find that the user interface remains
basically the same which will help make user upgrades very smooth.
Designed to be faster, better and smarter than prior versions, Dragon 11
lets you interact with your PC by voice more effortlessly and
efficiently. The improvements noted below should certainly help drive
even better productivity for individuals and cost savings across
organization. All Editions of Dragon 11 provide new features and
enhancements along with the ability to easily extend the Dragon
difference to users across large managed networks. We will be covering
some of the more powerful enhancements in future issues of The EXAQ Thing.
Please note that "Promotional Upgrade Pricing" is
being offered until September 29, 2010
Nuance provides
upgrades for only the prior two versions of NaturallySpeaking.
If you currently have a Dragon 9 product, you will need to upgrade to
11 prior to the release of Dragon 12 in order to continue to be
eligible for upgrade pricing. Nuance
is providing steeply discounted upgrade pricing during the release
Dragon 11 so if you are going to upgrade, now is the time to do
it.
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Dragon
NaturallySpeaking 11 Editions
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The new "Dragon Very Light".
Home 11 replaces Dragon
NaturallySpeaking Standard as the entry level home
product.
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The new "Dragon Light".
Premium 11 replaces Dragon
NaturallySpeaking Preferred as the higher end home
product.
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Full version of Dragon
NaturallySpeaking designed for business use, applications
and work flow needs.
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Enhanced productivity for legal
professionals. Includes citations, legal grammar rules and
other support for legal documents. |
All Dragon 11 editions work
with:
- Windows XP Sp2&3 (32
bit only)
2 GB RAM recommended (1 GB minimum)
- Vista Sp1&2 and Windows
7 (32 or 64 bit)
2 GB RAM recommended (1 GB minimum)
- Windows Server 2003 and
2007
4 GB RAM recommended (2 GB minimum)
CPU: recommended 1.8 GHz (1.0 GHz minimum)
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Major
Improvements: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11
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Premium
- the new "NaturallySpeaking
light" edition (replacing the Standard
edition):
- Up to 15% fewer speech
recognition errors vs. Dragon 10 Preferred (up to 35-40%
fewer vs. Version 9 and below)
- Significantly faster
recognition response time — as much as 500% over
Version 10 — for dictation and commands
- A new Dragon
Sidebar that makes it easier to discover and access
important, but often overlooked voice commands and tips
- More Dragon Voice
Shortcuts for searching directly within certain web
sites, including Twitter, IRS.gov, and others.
Given the current
promotional pricing available; if you currently have
NaturallySpeaking Preferred consider upgrading to Professional
11, if you currently have NaturallySpeaking Essentials or
Standard consider upgrading to Premium 11.
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NaturallySpeaking Professional Features:
Premium Features (above) plus
- 1000's of additional
navigation and formatting commands for additional
Windows applications including Microsoft® Office 2010
- New desktop and document
navigation commands that allow users to quickly switch
between open windows, launch popular Windows application on
demand, or scroll up and down through pages of text within
Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 — all by voice
- Templates and Voice
Fields: Create template commands like "insert product
not available response" and move down a form with "Next
field".
- The ability to create
powerful additional custom commands types: These can
include mouse clicks and provide specific Application
Navigation and Control (I.e.. "Insert last years financial data
here", "Insert header two" or "start checkbook
reconciliation")
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Manufacturer Promotional Upgrade Pricing
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NaturallySpeaking
Legal Features:
Professional Features(above)plus
- Legal citations
- Latin terms
- Legal grammar for dictation accuracy
- Additional features to support legal dictation and third
party corrections.
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Upgrade Options
and Prices for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11
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NaturallySpeaking 11 upgrades are scheduled to start shipping during
August and September, 2010. Pre-purchases will receive priority shipping.
NaturallySpeaking 11 upgrades will contain a software DVD and a
Manual. No microphone is included with
upgrades unless otherwise indicated.
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Upgrade
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From:
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Retail Price
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Version 11 upgrade
Purchased Prior
to 9/30/2010
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NaturallySpeaking versions 9 or
10
(NaturallySpeaking Essentials, Standard or
Preferred)
or
MacSpeech Dictate
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$
145.95
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$
99.99
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- Premium 11
Wireless
includes a wireless
Bluetooth microphone
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n/a
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$
199.99
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Professional 9 or 10 |
$
299.99 |
$
199.99
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| Preferred 9 or 10 |
$
399.99
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$
299.99
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- Professional 11
Wireless
includes a wireless
Bluetooth microphone
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Preferred 9 or 10 |
n/a
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$
399.99
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Legal 9 or 10 |
$
299.99
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$
199.99
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| Professional 9 or 10 |
$
399.99
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n/a
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| Preferred 9 or 10 |
$
599.99
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$
399.99
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* 90 Day Purchase Discount: Requires dated
receipt showing purchase of the qualifying product dated after the
indicated cutoff date.
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| Did you
know? |
Dealing with difficult
words.
The NaturallySpeaking Vocabulary Editor allows you to create custom "spoken
forms" for words and phrases. This allows you to create your own
pronunciation for words Dragon is having trouble with or for longer phrases
you want to use by speaking fewer words.
To access the Vocabulary Editor, say "Start Vocabulary Editor" or on the DragonBar
click on Words, View/Edit
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Type in the Words that you will say
in the "Spoken form" column to have Dragon type the words in "Written Form"
column.
Remember, you only need Spoken
forms if you will pronounce the word differently than simply
speaking the "Written form"
If you feel that you could be using Dragon NaturallySpeaking better, give
us a call. We can discuss the options and, if appropriate, set up a
convenient remote desktop training session at your convenience.
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Try not to smile ...
Overheard in Washington, D.C.: a
patriotic father pointing out a well-known building to his son. "You see
that triangular-shaped octagon over there? That's the Pentagon."
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It would be great if ...
Have you ever been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking or working with
someone using Dragon and thought " It would be great if Dragon could
...."
Well there is a very good chance that Dragon can! Next time that
comes up, give us a call and we would be happy to discuss if, or how,
your idea might be accomplished.
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