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• Dragon Naturally Speaking 9
  I bought an early copy of Dragon about version 2 or 3. It would have been better to type it then speak it... same for version 6. Now version 9 is here and it is eminitly useful. I ordered prefered with the headset and went through the training in a room with a freezer and refrigerator and one exhaust fan going in the room and the recognition was near perfect. I have a pentium 4 socket 468 3.2Gigaherts with hyperthreading and 1.5 gigs of memory and a standard hard drive. I don't know if it is just the voice recognition it's self that is responsible? I think it is the built in dictionary and some other smarts they have put in besides just an engine that tries to match sound templates to words.
  
  I want to buy a more expensive noise cancelling headset just to try it out but I think that with the occasional word to be trained and adding words to it's dictionary it will be near to 100% accurate.
  
  With one who has a long history of trying it and wanting to talk instead of type I would say go out and buy it!
  
  By the way 'Nuance' who now owns dragon also ownes just about all of the other voice recognition products that use to be out there... Lenard and Hauspie, IBM Via Voice, ect. I have owned them all.
  
  So 'color me' a satisified customer
  
  Joseph Hyde

  August 21, 2006

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