Dragon Dictation Products

Platform: Windows
Description: General purpose, continuous speech dictation system. Personal Edition has a 30,000 word active vocabulary and comes with a 200,000+ word pronunciation dictionary; users can also add their own words or phrases.
More information on Dragon's NaturallySpeaking web site.
Requirements: 133Mhz Pentium, 32 MB RAM (Windows 95) or 48 MB RAM (Windows NT 4.0), supported sound card.
Price: see Dragon's NaturallySpeaking web site.
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Platform: Windows
Description: Speech-to-text dictation system. Discrete dictation; continuous command/control; speaker-adaptive. Also provides mouse movement for hands-free operation of Windows. Comes with a 120,000 word pronunciation dictionary; users can also add their own words or phrases. Dictate directly into any application. Available in US and UK English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Swedish. Add-on vocabularies for medicine, law, business and finance, computers and technology, journalism.
Available as DragonDictate Singles Editions (10,000 words active), DragonDictate Personal Edition (10,000 words active), DragonDictate Classic Edition (30,000 words active), DragonDictate Power Edition (60,000 words active).
Includes Office97 support.
More information on the Dragon Systems web site.
Requirements: 486/66, 7-10 MB dedicated RAM (depending on edition), Windows 3.1x, NT 3.51, or 95.
Supported sound boards: Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16, Microsoft Windows Sound System, IBM M-Audio Capture/Playback Adapter, many notebooks with built-in audio.
See Dragon Systems Compatibility list for details.
Price: Check at the Dragon Systems web site.
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Platform: Apple Macintosh
Description: Speaker dependent/adaptive system requiring words to be separated by short pauses. Available as PowerSecretary Power Edition, Personal Edition, PowerSecretary MED for Healthcare Professionals.
Vocabulary: 30,000 - 60,000 at any one time, automatically selected from 120,000-word dictionary.
Requirements: Power Macintosh 6100, 7100, 8100, Performa 6100 series, Powerbook 540, 68040 class Macintosh such as Quadra 660AV, 700, 800, 840AV, 900, 950, Centris 650 and 660AV.
Hard Disk with at least 25Mb free.
System 7.5 or greater
(Some systems require add-on hardware)
More information: PowerSecretary home page
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