Dragon Naturally Speaking 8.0 - Mobile

For the busy professional moving between clients, home and the office, flexibility is a must. The new Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile solution lets you dictate documents and notes on the move - now you can work even more efficiently when you are away from your PC. Back in the office simply plug the recorder into the PC, transfer your file and let Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred automatically transcribe your dictation. No need to rely on manual transcription - saving you time and money! Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile delivers the performance that mobile professionals demand. It includes the Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 Preferred software, a certified digital recorder, special linking software and a high-quality headset microphone.

The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile comes with a light and compact digital recorder that enables users to record over two and half hours of dictation (in High Quality mode). The recorder offers fast file transfer via USB, over two and half hours of recording time (in High Quality mode) and numerous editing functions allow total flexibility when working with recorded files.

Key Features

To help home and office users achieve an increased level of productivity - and a more seamless interaction with their personal computer - ScanSoft has added a number of key capabilities to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7:

§             Most Accurate Ever
Significant improvements to the Dragon NaturallySpeaking recognition system has yielded an unprecedented accuracy improvement of up to 15% over the previous release, resulting in speech recognition accuracy levels as high as 99 percent.

§             Fastest Ever
More than 50 percent improvement in the initialization time of Dragon Naturally Speaking 7 enables "10 seconds to dictation" on baseline systems. Users can train the software on their voice patterns in just five minutes.

§             Mainstream Dictation Through Natural Punctuation
While professionals are accustomed to speaking punctuations, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 brings speech recognition to mainstream users by eliminating the need to say "period" or "comma" when creating e-mail messages, sending instant message text or completing Web-based forms by voice.

§             New Vocabulary Optimizer
Users can instruct Dragon NaturallySpeaking to instantly analyze sentence structure and word use frequency in previously created documents. Dragon NaturallySpeaking then automatically adjusts the recognition engine to match the user`s unique writing patterns, thereby further increasing accuracy.

§             Improved Proofing
The time and effort needed to proofread a document created by voice has been significantly reduced with ScanSoft RealSpeak Proofing, which reads email and document text aloud in a human-sounding synthesized voice.

§             New Performance Assistant
Dragon NaturallySpeaking now optimizes itself for each user`s application usage patterns.

§             Accurate Voice Control of the PC
Dragon NaturallySpeaking has improved voice command and control capabilities, which allows users to use their voice to interact with the PC operating system and control application menus. Most applications gain voice control capabilities by simply installing Dragon NaturallySpeaking onto the PC.

§             Expanded Custom Voice Shortcuts
The ability to create custom voice shortcuts, where a word or phrase will trigger the insertion of standardized text, has been expanded to support inserting text blocks and graphics. Users can now create a custom voice shortcut for standard letter closings -including a graphic of their signature - and have it automatically added to their email or Microsoft Word correspondence by simply saying the shortcut command (i.e. "Add signature").

System Requirements

§             Intel® Pentium® III / 500 MHz processor (or equivalent AMD processor) with USB port support

§             128 MB RAM

§             350 MB free hard disk space

§             Microsoft® Windows® XP, Me, 2000, 98 SE, or Windows NT® 4.0 (with SP-6 or greater)

§             Creative® Labs Sound Blaster® 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording

§             Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5 or higher (free download available at www.microsoft.com)

§             CD ROM drive (required for installation)

§             ScanSoft-approved noise-cancelling headset microphone (included)

§             Speakers (required for playback or recorded speech and text-to-speech features)