Key Benefits

Dragon NaturallySpeaking® 8 Professional enables professional PC users to create and edit documents and e-mails, fill out forms, and streamline workflow tasks-all by speaking! Talk to your computer and your words instantly and accurately appear in the full Microsoft® Office® Suite, plus Corel® WordPerfect®, Lotus® Notes®, and virtually all other Windows®-based applications.

• More Accurate Than Ever Before
  Dragon NaturallySpeaking® 8 is up to 99% accurate and frequently more accurate than typing.
  
  
• Faster Than Typing
  Most people speak over 160 words per minute, but type less than 40 words a minute. That means you can create documents and e-mails about three times faster with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Professional. The results are higher productivity, less reliance on support staff, and lower costs.
  
  
• Safer Than Typing
  Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Professional will help protect people in your organisation from repetitive stress injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome - injuries that can cost tens of thousands of dollars in insurance premiums and temporary labor costs. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Professional is designed to meet all your disability management needs.
  
  
• Easy To Use
  Simply install the Dragon NaturallySpeaking CD, and in just a few minutes, you`ll be creating documents, e-mails and filling out forms by voice! We even include a free noise-cancelling microphone.
  
  
• Network Ready
  Install and manage Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Professional from a central network location. You can even access your unique Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Professional "profile" from any PC on your organisation`s local area network.
  
  
• Mobile
  Be productive on-the-go! Import recordings from any ScanSoft-certified handheld device for automatic transcription and have a third party editor quickly and easily make corrections.

Key Features

• *ENHANCED* A Breakthrough In Speech Recognition Accuracy
  Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8`s improved speech engine ensures greater accuracy than version 7.
  
  
• Works With The Applications You Rely On
  Dictate, edit and control applications all by voice with programs like Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Outlook®, Microsoft® Excel®, Microsoft® PowerPoint, Internet Explorer®, Corel® WordPerfect®, and more.
  
  
• *NEW* Roaming User
  Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 makes your user profile available anywhere on the network, and automatically synchronises updates and adaptations centrally.
  
  
• *NEW* Native MSI Installer
  Install Dragon NaturallySpeaking through a network to multiple client machines.
  
  
• Tools for network management
  Manage user profiles, vocabularies and installations of Dragon NaturallySpeaking over a network.
  
  
• *NEW* Smart Formatting
  *NEW* Smart Formatting lets you specify how to format dates, measurements, acronyms or any word to meet your requirements.
  
  
• *NEW* Smart Text & Graphics Shortcuts
  Smart Text & Graphics Shortcuts let you instantly define the variable values in any boilerplate text, or have Dragon NaturallySpeaking prompt you with variable value choices.
  
  
• *NEW* Smart Commands
  Create voice commands that automate multi-step tasks.
  
  
• *ENHANCED* Dictate into a handheld recorder
  Dictate into a ScanSoft-approved digital handheld recorder, Pocket PC, or Palm Tungsten and you or a correctionist can transcribe your documents into Dragon NaturallySpeaking® later.
  
  
• *NEW* Share Vocabularies Among Acoustic Profiles
  With Multiple Acoustics you can use a single vocabulary for your microphone and handheld recorder profiles.
  
  
• Proofread with dictation playback
  Play back what you said so that you can edit and correct your work.
  
  
• Listen to text in the most human-sounding voice available
  Hear any text, such as incoming e-mail, read aloud using Text-to-Speech (RealSpeak™ 2 text-to-speech software).
  
  
• Third Party Correction
  Save your dictation in Microsoft® Word, Corel® WordPerfect® or the DragonPad for outside transcription or correction at a later time.
  
  
• Speech-enable forms and applications
  Use the Advanced Scripting (Microsoft® VBA-compatible Advanced Scripting) tool to make forms and applications that can be navigated by voice.
  
  
• Navigate your desktop by voice
  Launch or switch applications, save or print documents, and more, using menu commands for all standard Windows®-based applications.
  
  
• Get started quickly
  Teach the software to recognise your voice in as few as five minutes.
  
  
• Eliminate "ums" and "ahs" from your dictation
  The built-in Nothing But Speech (NBS)™ technology increases accuracy by filtering out inadvertent fillers and sounds between words.
  
  
• Use spelling, numbers, commands only, and dictation only modes
  Increase your accuracy when completing specific tasks by voice by using optional spelling, numbers, commands only, and dictation only modes.
  
  
• Control the mouse by voice
  Use multiple methods-including commands like "Move Mouse upper left"-to work hands-free.
  
  
• Work on the Web by voice
  Search the Web, access information, and navigate Web pages by speaking URLs and links.

Minimum System requirements

• Intel® Pentium® III / 500 MHz processor (or equivalent AMD processor)
• 256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM Recommended)
• 300 MB free hard disk space
• Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP1 or higher) Home and Professional, 2000 (SP4 or higher)
• Creative® Labs Sound Blaster® 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5 or higher (free download available at www.microsoft.com)
• CD-ROM drive (required for installation)
• ScanSoft-approved noise-cancelling headset microphone (included)
• Speakers (required for playback of recorded speech and text-to-speech features)
• A web connection is required for activation