Nuance Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 Home (with Headset)

Nuance Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 Home is a speech recognition software that allows you to interact with your PC just by talking! It understands what you say and how you say it. Simply speak words and they appear on the screen up to three times faster than by typing with no typos. Tell your PC what to do and it does it. Use Nuance Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 Home on your favorite applications to dictate reports, send email, surf the Web, download music, update Facebook, and more. For everything you do at home or school, there’s no easier or more enjoyable way to get more done faster. Once you start using Dragon, you’ll wonder how you managed without it.

What It Is and Why You Need It:

• Transform ideas into text at the speed of thought; don’t let typing or spelling slow you down.
• Say words and watch them appear on your screen in Word, Word Perfect Outlook, and more up to three times faster than typing, with up to 99% recognition accuracy right out of the box.
• Control your PC in a comfortable, hands-free mode without being tied to your keyboard.
• Dragon adapts to your voice and the words you use. You can even personalize Dragon with your own word lists of acronyms, proper names and other unique phrases.
• Easy to install and fun to use. It changes the way you interact with your computer for the better so you can get more done faster and get on with your life.
• Tell your PC what to do, such as “Search the Web for financial advisors in Boston, Massachusetts” and it does it. Dragon understands and obeys your voice commands. It even gets to know you better over time so recognition accuracy keeps increasing.

New Features:

Recognition Accuracy
15% fewer speech recognition errors out of the box than Dragon 10; Recognition Analytics (Dragon automatically detects poor audio input and alerts the user, offering advice to remedy the situation); multi-core support makes use of machines with multi-core architecture.

Correction
Enhanced Correction Menu and Spelling Window; new “don’t recognize that word” command; Dragon “learns” from edits, including keyboard edits, faster than ever before.

User Interface
Enhanced DragonBar with contextual messages to improve usability and feature discoverability; new Dragon Sidebar presenting commands and tips; redesigned Profile Creation Wizard with focus on ease of use; more readable text for enrollment and microphone check.

Help System and Tutorials
Includes richer tutorial and tips; at anytime, you can search the Help for a particular word or phrase.

Command and Control
Global commands for launching applications and folders, switching to a specific window, or tabbing multiple times.

Application Support: Word Processing and Email
WordPerfect X5 and Word 2010. (Natural Language Commands in English only) and Outlook 2010. (Natural Language Commands in English only)

This product is retail box. Retail box software is sold at retail stores. It comes in a factory sealed retail box with the CD or DVD, plus the software license key and manuals where provided by the software manufacturer. Retail box software comes with full installation support from the manufacturer.

System Requirements:

• Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7, 32-bit and 64-bit, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, 32-bit and 64-bit, Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, 32-bit only, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, SP1, SP2 and R2, 32-bit and 64-bit
• Processor: Minimum 1 GHz Intel Pentium or equivalent AMD processor or 1.66 GHz Intel Atom processor. We recommend 1.8 GHz Intel Dual Core or equivalent AMD processor.
• Processor Cache: Minimum 512KB. We recommend 2MB.
• Hard Drive Space: 2.5GB (2.8GB for localized non-English versions)
• RAM: Minimum 1GB for Windows XP and Windows Vista, and 2GB for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003/2008. We recommend 2GB RAM for Windows XP and Windows Vista, and 4GB for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003/2008 64-bit.
• Drive: DVD-ROM drive required for installation
• Other: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher, Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording