Nuance have just announced version 11 of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the PC and is available for pre-order

I will be reviewing this latest release soon but in the meantime these are Nuance’s list of "what’s new" in version 11.

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We have big savings on Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 during the month of June and whilst stocks last!

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Special offer – £100 off the recommended retail price of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional version 10.1. Offer valid until 7th December, 2009 and while stocks last.

Browse to the online shop and scroll down to the listing for Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional.

Peter Maddern

Special offer – Speech Empowered Computing is now giving a free online 30 minute training video with every copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional Wireless and Dragon NaturallySpeaking Student/Charity edition. This easy to follow training video covers some of the most important aspects of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, namely:-

1. Select and Say (how to select text and replace it with new text by voice)
2. How to correct by voice so that Dragon “learns from its mistakes”
3. How to add words and phrases to the vocabulary, written form and spoken form and a powerful shortcut for adding words and phrases to the vocabulary directly from a Microsoft Word or similar document
4. How to create “boilerplate text” in the Command Browser function of Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

As a bonus, Speech Empowered Computing is also giving away interactive PDF files which detail most of the often use commands in a visual, easy to understand interactive graphical format. Our clients find this format really helps them to recall the key commands that they need to use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to its full potential, without having to trawl through documents which have the commands in a traditional “checklist” format.

All this plus £64 off the recommended retail price of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional software!

These high-value resources will help you be more productive from day one.

All the versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional can be ordered from the Speech Empowered Computing online shop.

For more information, contact Peter Maddern at Speech Empowered Computing.

Peter Maddern
Speech Empowered Computing

Since the launch of version 10 in September 2008, Nuance has been collecting your feedback and working on improvements to make this new version perfect to suit your needs. They would normally wait for version 11 to launch a new version, but the improvements they’ve made to this version are so important that they apparently wanted to share them as soon as possible.

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The product marketing manager for Dragon NaturallySpeaking is asking for your help regarding future versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. For the past few months, Nuance’s product marketing manager has been reaching out to present and former Dragon NaturallySpeaking customers for product feedback. Users’ opinions will enable Nuance to fine-tune the specific areas of the product that you would like to see improved. For example: Read the rest of this entry »

Last week’s webinar was attended by guests from the UK, France and Egypt and was extremely well received.

Further webinars are planned soon.

Peter Maddern

Speech Empowered Computing is pleased to announce it will be holding a series of free Webinars (web conferences) over the next few months on the benefits of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking system and how it can enhance personal productivity.

The first webinar in the series is scheduled for 10.30 a.m. GMT on Thursday 19th March.

Peter Maddern will be running through some live demonstrations where he will use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to create reports in Microsoft Word and e-mails/calendar management in Microsoft Outlook using speech recognition. He will also take participants on a tour of the features and benefits of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking programme. He will conclude with a questions and answer session.

How will I benefit from attending the Webinar?

Nowadays, there is more and more to accomplish with fewer resources. You will learn how speech recognition can greatly enhance your PC (and hence personal) productivity. Free yourself from the constraints of typing all your reports, e-mails, presentations and spreadsheets etc and learn how the system can allow you to dictate at up to 99% accuracy at speeds of up to 160 words per minute.

Who should attend:

Anyone who would like to be more productive and be able to create their own notes, reports and e-mail e.g.:-

• Solicitors
• Surveyors
• Building Engineers
• CEO’s, Executives, Team Members 
• Users with disabilities
• Sales and Marketing Professionals
• Medical Professionals
• Academic staff (Teachers, Lecturers, Academic administrative staff, students etc)
• Administrators
• Authors
• Technical Authors
• Translators

However, this Webinar will really benefit anyone who relies heavily on their computer to get their job done and who has ever considered getting started with Dragon NaturallySpeaking computer speech recognition but don’t know how to go about it.

Please note – the Webinar will cover only European versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking designed for UK English/American English/Australian English speakers in Europe so registration is necessarily restricted to those with English as their first language living in Europe.

How do I register to attend?

Registration can be found here – places limited to 12 so register soon to book your place.

What do I need to join?

All you need is a fast internet connection and Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox with the most up to date Java client. You will call in via a local telephone number provided by Speech Empowered Computing (you just pay for the cost of the call) or you can join at no cost with a headset microphone using VOIP.

Full joining instructions (link and meeting ID) will be sent to registered participants ahead of time.

Dr Peter Maddern
Speech Empowered Computing

Nuance have release Service Pack 1 for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.0. This converts version 10.0 into version 10 SP1

Install by clicking on “Help” on the Dragon menu bar followed by “check for updates”

Information on what has changed can be found in the Nuance Knowledge Base (TechNote 6070)

If you have any problems installing from “help” – “check for updates”, you can download SP1 from this direct link.

It is recommended that users with roaming profiles install from the above download link rather than via “help” – “check for updates” otherwise you may get an error message when attempting to open local roaming users. This is because version 10.0 profiles cannot “read” version 10 SP1 profiles.

Peter Maddern
Speech Empowered Computing

New – we now offer up to 4 hours live online instruction covering the basics of using Dragon NaturallySpeaking (versions 8, 9 and 10) with Microsoft Word plus instruction on achieving high recognition accuracy, including editing the vocabulary and analysing typical documents to enhance accuracy.

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