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Summary: See for yourself!
Review: Okay, how did you people get this thing to be in the least bit accurate? I am now typing this review in dragon pad to see how it fares. I just finished transcribing to interviews, and got the most ridiculous results. Oddly enough, this is coming-out far more accurate, then, the interviews granted it is making grammar mistakes. But that's to be expected. It seemed that he can't keep up with me when I talked very fast see, like that. I speak very clearly and actually have been a public speaker. So I know that it's not that I mumble, or I'm not articulating enough. I think that if all one wanted to do with this was to tie thousand e-mails and perhaps right out letters were speech is that might be fine. But using it to transcribe quickly has been a nightmare. I and purposely not going back and correcting any of this. So you can see what it really looks like tie thousand should have been typed in some. Type in some. Off yes, if I speak like a robot sometimes it works, but not always. Off yes, should have been to ah I give up. See what I mean? Let us try some nursery rhymes, Thomas Moffett sat on her topic heating or credited way. Oh, God, that was perfect. The tell Mace Moffett sat on her toughest eating her currents and way. One more try late told Mace Moffett sat on her tough it eating her curtains and way. (If you couldn't tell, that was Dragon's version of Little Miss Muffett. Just stepping in here to type, because I can't get it to even come vaguely close.) But in case you think that's not fair, let's try the back of my Sausalito cookies bad: topical key in the microwave for 10 to 15 seconds for a fresh from the oven taste. Cannot purchase of baggies opener toward. Try again. Cannot purchase of baggies opener toward. Not even close. Do not purchase if bag is open or toward. Torn to. Torn! Yes, that's it. This is the first program of it's kind that I've tried so I can't recommend anything better at this point. But I am very frustrated, and serious -- -- no, I said to your yes... No, I said, furious -- -- that I can't even get any technical support without paying for it, even when it deals with glitch is. They have found and documented such as the conflict with Visual Studio. It is an embarrassment that this company has such a little respect for its customers.
Rating: 
Summary: Decent recognition, poor compatibility, terrible support
Review: Version 7.0 preferred has excellent voice-recognition. However there are some glaring incompatibilities that make the product almost unusable. For example; I have XP Pro service pack two and the latest upgrades to Internet Explorer 6.0. With NaturallySpeaking running, whether I use voice or mouse to click on favorites and select a link, IE completely locks up. Therefore I have to shut down NaturallySpeaking before I can use Internet Explorer, and then restart it when I'm finished browsing. As mentioned by other reviewers ScanSoft charges USD19.95 for each support call after the first -- even to report a glaring bug such as the one mentioned above. This is unconscionable. Based on their support policies alone I would have to say stay away from their products.
Rating:
Summary: Decent recognition, poor compatibility, terrible support
Review: Version 7.0 preferred has excellent voice-recognition. However there are some glaring incompatibilities that make the product almost unusable. For example; I have XP Pro service pack two and the latest upgrades to Internet Explorer 6.0. With NaturallySpeaking running, whether I use voice or mouse to click on favorites and select a link, IE completely locks up. Therefore I have to shut down NaturallySpeaking before I can use Internet Explorer, and then restart it when I'm finished browsing. As mentioned by other reviewers ScanSoft charges USD19.95 for each support call after the first -- even to report a glaring bug such as the one mentioned above. This is unconscionable. Based on their support policies alone I would have to say stay away from their products.
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Summary: Good Product, Terrible Technical Support!
Review: When I bought this product a month ago, I was excited about the idea of sitting back and dictating my research essays. For the most part the software recognizes your voice pretty well and even though it does make mistakes, it gets better as you train it. Using it with your mouse and keyboard together works the best. However, I would have to say from my experience and reading many reviews of this product is that its company Scansoft has terrible technical support. The software has many compatibility issues (eg. Visual Studio, etc to name one)where you get alot of pop up error messages. When you want to talk to someone about it or at least send an e-mail to Scansoft, they want you to pay a hefty fee of $9.95 for each e-mail question or $19.95 for phone support. It seems this company wants to sell you a product but give you no guidance as to any of its quirks. This is almost criminal in my mind.
Because of this, I recommend that people stay away from this company until they realize that charging someone for their product's shortcomings is not RIGHT! I also learned that a voice version of this technology comes with Office Xp and tried it out and works well with a half-decent microphone I have. So, what I am saying is that I would not buy this product due to the fact that if something goes wrong, they do not care! Poor business ethics!
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