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| Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 (Standard Edition) (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: £79.99
Buy Used: £64.09
You Save: £15.90 (20%)
New (6) from £65.28
Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 870
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.9 x 2.8
MPN: A309X-W00-9.0
EAN: 5031199018229
ASIN: B000GTGQTY
Release Date: July 21, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: 2 Weeks old, sent from UK 1st class post
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 I'll never type again August 19, 2008
I've been using this product to help with my academic writing. I'm amazed at how accurate the recognition software is and how it remembers and improves the more you use it. I now dictate everything and correct any mistakes when I do a readthrough and edit what I did wrote, which I always did when typing anyway so it's no extra work. I would recommend anyone who does a lot of typing to try this software.
The only gripe is the headset which is a bit low quality and quite painful after a while, typically I could work 2 hours at a go after which my head hurt. I bought a more comfortable set (less than 10) but the ear pads made my ears overheat. In the end I butchered the original headset and adapted the microphone to sit on my desk. After running the setup tests (dead easy) this now works really well.
 Naturally Speaking? July 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't know much about the program and its history and all, I brought a copy in the hopes of making life easy for my writing and sadly It failed basically in short it works like this.
"Ice cream" is a word that means the confectionery based food, whereas "I Scream" is an expression that means just that, Understand? of course you do, its human understanding its what separates us from the animals and all that, however this program doesn't understand the difference and will lag behind for seconds before guessing[usually wrongly] and just adds to making a more difficult task and endless deleting of text, also the program cant make its mind up with what is noise and what is speech, this review is a good example of what I mean, for the sake of bitter sweet irony I tried to use the program to write this review and it took over half an hour to re-write, edit and correct.
Its a great program in theory it really is and in a few years I imagine the software will be "Starship Enterprise Quality" like were all hoping it should be, however right now its just not quiet there, and the fact they expect you to pay fairly steep money for the privilege and not be a freeware program is quiet insulting.
2/10.
FAIL.
A good product, but with some problems still in version 9+ ! June 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently bought this product for my step-father, so to make it easier for him to write long letters. Given that he doesn't need to write a huge amount, in many different applications, or even all that frequently; we decided that a Standard edition should be enough.
He has a laptop with Vista, that meets the requirements easily.
The good:-
1) The program seems quite stable, with only one crash (was worried, as it happened during install!). No further stability issues since installation and updating/patching.
2) While I have seen reports of ongoing issues (especially with Vista), I have not seen many on this system.
3) The program works. Providing you have a good microphone and audio setup. I recommend ensuring you have a good sound card, if you're using a 3.5mm jack connector microphone. If using a USB microphone (I recommend doing so) you still don't want it plugged in on top of a generator or something like that, but it seemed to me to be more tolerant.
The bad:-
I suspect that this would run better on a good desktop/tower, as it certainly seems resource hungry for the laptop. The laptop has 2GB memory and a reasonable processor, but if it's running much more than Dragon and MS Office, the speech-to-text side of things performes a bit sluggishly. Still works, just seems to sometimes be lagging 200-1200ms behind what I would expect sometimes.
The ugly:-
Total lack of 64-bit OS support. This isn't a shooting game, this is a serious real world application. It should be supported by/on a serious OS.
Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 (Standard Edition) (PC).Phooey. May 10, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Got me one of these. Wouldn't install in Vista. Downloaded whacking great patch. Wouldn't install. Said I needed to get a sound system. Have one.
I'd assumed dragon 7 wouldn't work. Decided to try. It installed. Took the training, then wouldn't work in Word. So tried dictating into Dragon pad and it works. Spell systems out, but after dictating, just copy to Word or Abi and do spell check their. Makes Vista a bit unstable, but then Vista is. Yes.
 Excellent Piece of Software. April 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased NaturallySpeaking 9 to use on Windows Vista (no problems at all installing it). I found its accuracy to be around 85% but am sure it will improve with continued use. However, I now find that I need to be away from my computer quite often so I have purchased the Preferred edition to use with my voice recorder.
I would unreservedly recommend this product, and the Nuance website, as they are excellent
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