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Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.0
Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.0
NaturallySpeaking is the Best-Selling recognized leader in Voice Recognition. This website and all Broadened Horizons e-mail communications, user manuals, etc. are written using Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
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$129 Standard Edition 9.0 / 9.5
Supports Windows XP & Vista!
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Options & Accessories
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 USB plug-and-play driverless simplicity. Lightweight, egg size mic hangs comfortably around neck below chin for optimal voice recognition, VOIP phone, and chat digital quality Superior to Bluetooth!  In tests outperformed much more expensive alternatives |
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Great alternative if you don't feel like wearing the wireless mic or help is not available to hook it around your neckGreat backup if wireless mic batteries are dead or rechargingTested to perform 95-98% as well more expensive alternativesPencil with mute button (Windows PC)Flexarm on detachable base (Windows PC or Mac 9.1 and higher) |
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Voice Activate Your Music Library
 Play your music or audiobooks wirelessly by simply saying the artist name, album, genre or favorite playlist from an entire libraryNo voice training required! Exceptional 4th generation technology works immediately after quick install No setup required! Automatically scans entire iTunes and Windows Media Player library on Windows XP and Vista. Examples: “Play Artist The Rolling Stones”, “Play Genre Rock”, “Play Playlist Party Mix”, “Play Album Gimme Shelter” |
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Over 60 voice command sets for all the hottest games pre-configured and ready to go! No tedious setup or training required. Free game set updates for life! Easily customize existing command sets or create new voice command sets for your favorite games. Get a new EDGE for more competitive gaming now!
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Windows Media Center Voice Control Software
Turns your Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate PC into a completely voice controlled home entertainment systemLike a voice controlled TiVo without any subscription fees, plus your own one movies, DVDs, photos, and musicIntegrated voice activated Skypeout VOIP Phone |
Broadened Horizons recommended Cost-Effective "Cordless" Voice-Recognition Compatible Microphones See how different tasks are accomplished using Dragon NaturallySpeaking’s award-winning voice recognition instead of the keyboard and mouse. While NaturallySpeaking provides complete voice recognition computeraccessibility to both the keyboard and mouse, is most effective combined with one of Broadened Horizons recommended alternative mouse cursor controller solutions. These demonstrations show how easy it is to begin working more effectively!
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Usability Features
Macro Creation Tools
Specialized Application Support
Enterprise Features
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System Requirements
Intel® Pentium® / 1 GHz processor (for example, Pentium® M, Pentium® 4), or equivalent AMD® processor - Faster processors will yield faster performance 512 MB RAM (Broadened Horizons recommends 768 MG minimum and 1 or 2GB preferred)1 GB free hard disk space Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP1 or higher), 2000 (SP4 or higher) Creative® Labs Sound Blaster® 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording for Nuance included noise-canceling wired headset microphone or Broadened Horizons Mini Stick-on MicrophoneSpeakers (required for playback of recorded speech and text to speech features)  Broadened Horizons recommends digital USB noise-canceling MicrophonesA web connection is required for activationMicrosoft® Internet Explorer 5 or higherCD-ROM drive (required for installation) During the install process the software checks to make sure your system meets these minimum requirements. If you do not meet the requirements, the software will not be installed.
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Improving Performance of Voice/Speech Recognition Software
1.5 GHz or faster processor Try creating a new user using the "Medium" vocabulary (35,000 words) rather than the default "Large" general vocabulary (65,000 words). Your personal custom vocabulary words will be added over time either way.How to Determine if you have enough RAM MemoryBroadened Horizons Voice-Recognition RAM memory recommendations
NaturallySpeaking 7 = 512 MB minimumNaturallySpeaking 8 = 768 MB minimumNaturallySpeaking 9 = 1 GB minimumWindows Vista Speech Recognition = 1.5 GB (1 GB bare minimum)The quick rule of thumb: If you here lots of hard drive activity, when there shouldn't be, you don't have enough memory. You can confirm this using Task Manager which is built into Windows. To open Task Manager right-click in empty space on taskbar at the bottom of screen and select "Task Manager" from the menu that pops up. Then click on the "Performance" Tab. The performance tab of the task manager has section called Commit Charge found in the very bottom right corner of the window. The Total Commit Charge is a measure how much memory is currenty in use.
The example pictured shows 881 MB Total Commit Charge out of 2,096 MB (2 GB) total physical memory in use. During normal usage of your computer the Committed Charge Total should not exceed 75% of your Total Physical Memory. For example, if it's showing 900 MB in use out of 1096 MB (1 GB) total physical memory, 90% of your available memory is in use and you need to add more RAM memory or close some unnecessary programs that are running. If the Commit Charge Total is larger than the total amount of physical memory you desperately need to add more RAM memory because you are actively using your hard drive as virtual RAM memory. Windows creates this virtual RAM memory space on your hard drive, also referred to as the page file, to keep the computer running in these situations.
However if the commit charge is less the amount of physical memory you have, it is possible to still have a problem. When the commit limit is near or exceeds the amount of physical memory, Windows will get more aggressive in writing memory pages to the hard drive page file to free up RAM for use by the active process. Normally this is a pretty reasonable algorithm, except that it has undesirable effects when trying to use speech recognition as a primary input device. In this situation, users will often experience "slowness" when resuming speech-recognition after a brief break.
Minimize Startup ProgramsAutoRuns is a great tool to see what is being run when Windows starts and is free from Microsoft. Download it, open the zip file, and copy "autoruns.exe to your desktop then double-click to run it. Uninstall any programs you see listed that you no longer use using the "Add Remove Programs" Control Panel. Then uncheck any programs under the following sections which you recognize but do not need running in the background and can simply start up manually when you need to use them. It might be safer to just leave something you do not recognize, although you can always reenable it later. Don't mess with any of the other sections unless you really know what you are doing.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunC:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\StartupHKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOptimize NaturallySpeaking's Options SettingsCommands tab
Uncheck "Enable mouse motion commands" (if you don't need to use it). Uncheck "Enable commands in HTML windows" (if you don't use Dragon to surf the Net). View tab
Check "Anchor". Miscellaneous tab
You could try different "Speed vs Accuracy" settings depending on the accuracy of your dictation, but the default seems to provide good results.Hot Keys
Change the Hot Key setting for "Microphone sleep/on..." to something convenient© Broadened Horizons, Inc., 2007. All rights reserved.
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