I Speak Dragon to Improve my Work
Sharon J. -
my son is quite weak in his English,he is 16, so i decided that i would help him a tiny bit in his school eassays as i felt sorry for him, so i sat down with my dragon and looked up some info on the internet and opened Word and started to talk as i found the relevant ideas. needless to say i did ramble on a bit longer than i should have and so soon he had a fantastic essay all done for him... well the next day i got a call from his head of Year stating that `no way could this work be that of my sons as the words used and the way it was written was too good for it to be his,i tried to explain to her that i sat with him along with dragon and we did the work to which she became infuriated and said ..oh there is no such thing as a program that can type what you say..mrs so and so you should not make up such stories, this is plagarism and he will have detention!!it took me 10 minutes to convince her that there is such a fantastic programe which can help you type much quicker. she then asked me for the name and said she will get back to me....son got a B(compared to a D) .
Tony G. -
I use Dragon Naturally Speaking so I don't lose my thoughts before they have time to come out my fingers.
Janet S. -
Well where should I start, this product is the bees knees! Working in HR means that I attend lots of meetings on a weekly basis where I take notes. The notes need to made available quickly in order for the nextr stage of a process to be continued. I am often under inmense pressure to get such notes turned around in time, until I discovered Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 Standard! It has cut down my workload by more than 50% and is very accurate. I still attend the meetings and hand write the notes, but then I just have to physically read them back for the notes to appear in front of my eyes. It also has health benefits, as I now spend less time in front of the computer and my wrists, hands and eyes do not feel as painful. The only thing I have left to work out, is how to convince the section Head to buy enough of this brilliant invention to be installed on my colleagues computers! In the meantime, I am certainly benefiting
Nigel C. -
As clinical psychologist I am able to complete complex reports in a fraction of the time it would take me to type. In addition I use my pocket pc as a dicatation device increasing productivity on the move. Most significantly, I combine mind mapping projects with dragon. i can create a broad overview of a project and the speed of dragon allows me to commit my stream of ideas to paper.
Daniel G. -
I bought Dragon naturally speaking nine as I thought it would improve my speed at typing and accuracy. This is because I am dyslexic so spelling and typing isn't easy for me. This has helped me tremendously in my studies as there is a lot of typing involved. It has meant that I have more time to do the research and less time typing it up so I have been able to improve my grades throughout the year. I would thoroughly recommend this excellent piece of software to my friends as it is a great time saver in the day-to-day running of the computer. It is especially good when I can use key phrases to write frequently used text. Also it helps loading programs and files from the desktop. However I would prefer if the software worked with every situation and files.
Russell C. -
I am sure that my experience will not be as profound as some others but would like to share it all the same. I am dyslexic and training to be a solicitor. I received a grant for the dragon software, which has enabled me to be less conscious about spelling. It has possibly has a slight impact on my typing speed. I can say that dragon is a very useful tool, which has made a difference to productivity but does not come without problems. A lot of training is required and patience with the software. However taking time does improve its accuracy as does my colleges being quiet. As time goes on I am sure I will become more adept at using the software and achieve more with it.
Jamie E. -
I have been working as an chat operator for a number of months now, since purchasing DRAGON from PC world, i have increased my productivity from 40-50 msgs per hour to well over 100! Amazing! Thank-you!
Thomas C. -
I use to spend an age type up lecture note but now with this piece of software its easy it cuts the time down in half
Carsten G. -
Recently, I signed up for a new distant education study. In my courses, I have to mail my exercises. I am full-time employed and have little free time. While reading the study material, I use DNS 9 to dictate my notes. From these notes I use to develop the final essays. DNS helps me to save time during reading my materials and afterwards in developing the final texts. I am a user of the DNS 9 Preferred Wireless edition and it was so useful that I also got a digital note recorder to have a mobile advantage, aswell.
Janet R. -
I use Dragon naturally speaking for my main work activities and also in my charitable work. For my work as a senior manager and a group of children's homes I often have to write policy and strategy documents. Shortly before Christmas I had to complete three major submissions in respect of a consultation to a government Green paper. In all this took me nearly 2 weeks of work. If I had had Dragon naturally speaking at that time, I am convinced that I could have completed that work within three days. In the charity work that I do I have to deal with grant application forms coming in, and now that I have found how easy it is to use Dragon naturally speaking with tables I and able to enter all the data, much more easily, and therefore ensure that our care leaver applicants receive responses to their grant applications, much more quickly. Provided that I keep an eye on my work and do not go too quickly I have found that the level of accuracy achieved with Dragon NaturallySpeaking is much higher than with typing. So for instance I have far less work to do with the spellchecker. When I have finished a document. The only thing I found difficult to remember when I began using Dragon naturally speaking is to ask my Dragon to go to sleep when I answer the telephone during the production of a document! Otherwise, I find that he has written all sorts of strange comments in the middle of my document. I was very disappointed when I first purchased Dragon naturally speaking, because my laptop did not have sufficient capacity to run the program. I purchased a memory upgrade to rectify this problem, which actually made a software product itself a very expensive purchase, however, I would not now be without my Dragon for anything.
Vera B. -
I am an obsessive family historian, and I have been researching the Bromage family tree for the past six years. It has become much easier to research family history now that I have access to the records on the Internet, as well as at local libraries and family history societies. I have now taken on the task of creating one name study, by joining the Guild of One Name Studies, which entails, among other things, listing all the births, marriages and deaths from the Public Record Office and the International Genealogical Index. This can be very time consuming and boring, but to my purchase of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.0 has enabled me to forge ahead with collecting and collating all this data. I was astounded to find that as well as using it with Microsoft Excel, I can also use it with my family tree programme, The Master Genealogist. Now there is no stopping me - I might even get back to Adam and Eve eventually! Thank you so much and keep up the brilliant work.
Bernard S. -
I work on the internet; I'm forever writing articles or recreating articles from previously written material to use as content on my websites. This is a very time consuming business especially if the written word does not come easily to you. A few days ago I was sitting in front of my screen with an article open and ready to edit. I stifled a yawn and unenthusiastically viewed the text. There must be an easier way of doing this, I thought to myself. Then an idea came to me, I remembered that I had Dragon Naturally Speaking installed but gathering dust since I hadn't used it for some months, perhaps it would be easier if I dictated the article straight into my web page. I found to my amazement that I could rewrite (dictate) the article in a fraction of the time it normally normally took me. I don't know why I didn't think of it before. So if anyone out there is faced with similar tasks to me take a leaf out of my book and use the Dragon, You'll save yourself a lot time, and you know what they say - "Time is Money"
Clive B. -
Having a requirement to produce documentation in relation to legal and commercial matters we had a real need to be able to produce papers quickly and with out stopping work on other projects. The installation of Dragon naturally speaking solve the problem and it's like having another pair of hands about the office.
Michael K. -
You interview someone or you attend a meeting. You have a "tape" of hours of conversation. How do you get the most out of that? Dragon can't deal with a mixture of voices in a noisy environment. So do you send the tape to someone to transcribe it? Then you miss the chance to learn and edit as you go along. Here's what I do. Put the recording on your PC. Don some headphones. Listen to the recording. As it plays, repeat the words Dragon will then transcribe the interview as you listen and talk. Faster than just transcribing. More interactive. And you listen and digest as you go along. If you are a writer, you can pretty well polish off an interview in the time that you would normally spend listening to the interview.
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