Talk to your PC naturally, your words appear immediately as text. You can create letters, reports, proposals, e-mail messages, and more, just by speaking!

Write as Fast as You Can Speak

Dragon NaturallySpeaking™, the award-winning speech recognition software from Dragon Systems®, is revolutionising the way people work with their computers. Its high accuracy, fast performance, and extensive vocabulary let you talk instead of typing, improving your productivity many times over.

It's simple. Just speak to your computer naturally, without pausing between words, and watch as sentences appear on your screen. Dictate entire paragraphs at a time. Compose e-mail messages, create reports, draft letters, and edit proposals just by speaking. Make corrections entirely by voice. You'll find Dragon NaturallySpeaking can be much faster and more natural than typing.

Preferred Edition. With Dragon NaturallySpeaking's new Preferred Edition, you can dictate, edit and format directly in Microsoft¨ Word™ 97. You can control your mouse pointer by voice, record your own speech for playback, hear your computer read selected text aloud, and dictate directly into virtually any Windows application.

Suited for Everyone

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is the natural way to input text. Almost anyone, business professionals, writers and journalists, students, non-typists, telecommuters, and office staff in small businesses, can find themselves quickly creating documents and reports with ease and accuracy. Dragon NaturallySpeaking spells correctly every time.

Powerful Speech Capabilities

Hidden behind the simplicity of Dragon NaturallySpeaking's user interface are sophisticated breakthroughs in speech recognition capabilities. Dragon NaturallySpeaking's advanced features include:

True Continuous Speech Speak to your computer naturally and at a normal conversational pace (160 words per minute or more), without pausing between words. Your spoken words are transcribed immediately onto your computer screen. They can be edited, formatted, printed, and copied into popular Windows applications.

High Recognition Accuracy Concentrate on your work, not on corrections, and get more done. Once you have adapted Dragon NaturallySpeaking to your voice you should find recognition accuracy to be greater than 95 percent. And the more you use Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the better it gets, quickly learning your individual pronunciations and vocabulary.

Large Vocabulary Most of the words people use every day are recognised immediately. The 30,000-word active vocabulary contains words and names that cover a wide range of subjects; less common words can be quickly retrieved from the 200,000+ word back-up dictionary. The Vocabulary Builder® tool can add new words automatically from your existing documents, or you can add them simply by saying them and spelling them once.

Editing and Correction

Natural Spelling If you ever need to spell a word, just spell it aloud, either as "a, b, c" or "alpha, bravo, charlie".

Select-and-Say® Editing and Correction Correct and edit at any timeÑas you go, or postpone it until later. It's ideal for people who prefer to concentrate on their thoughts instead of the PC screen as they dictate. Just say "select" followed by the word or phrase you want to change. Then replace the selected text by saying a new word or phrase. You can even adjust the format by saying phrases such as "bold that." It's that simple!

NEW Features!

Dragon NaturallySpeaking now contains many new features designed to make working with your PC even easier:

Personal Edition

Multiple Users on a Single System Each user teaches the system his or her accent and individual pronunciations during a 20-minute initial training period; the system subsequently maintains individual voice files, ensuring optimum performance for each user regardless of speech differences.

Preferred Edition

As well as accommodating multiple users, the Preferred Edition gives you:

Compatibility with Microsoft¨ Wordª 97 With Dragon NaturallySpeaking's NaturalWordª module you can dictate directly into Microsoft Word 97, using the Select-and-Say feature to edit and format text by voice.

Audio Playback of Speech Record your speech as you dictate; when you select dictated text passages on the screen Dragon NaturallySpeaking can play your speech back to verify your dictation.

Text-to-Speech Select any text passage on your screen; your computer can read it to you in its own voice!

*Preferred Edition

Dragon Systems, Always the Innovator

Dragon Systems continues to pioneer the natural speech revolution through its research and development efforts. Co-founded in 1982 by Dr James Baker and Dr Janet Baker, the company boasts one of the largest speech research organisations of any company in the world. With its world-class team of speech experts, the company builds robust systems for government and industry. The company is well known for its long history of innovations and extensive patent portfolio.

Privately held and headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.A., the company employs approximately 250 people in the US, UK, and Germany. Resellers, sales representatives, and business partners are located on six continents. Seagate Technologies, a world-leading data storage products and software company, has established a significant equity position in Dragon Systems.

Some of the breakthroughs introduced by Dragon Systems include:

1997 the world's first large-vocabulary, general-purpose, continuous speech dictation system for PCs

1993 the world's first commercially available "software only" dictation system to support virtually any Windows application

1990 the world's first commercially available large vocabulary general-purpose discrete dictation system for PCs

1984 the first speech recognition capability for a portable PC

System Requirements

Windows® 98, Windows® 95 or Windows NT® 4.0

Hard disk space required:
Standard 54 MB
With Quick Tour +30 MB
With Text-to-Speech* +10 MB

(Text-to-Speech by Elan Informatique)

For each additional user +9 MB

Memory required:
Windows® 98 32 MB
Windows® 95 32 MB
Windows NT® 4.0 48 MB
With MS Word compatibility*+16 MB

Includes a high-quality headset microphone (may differ from those pictured)

Year 2000 compliant

*Preferred Edition

 International Acclaim for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 

"A dream come true for two-fingered typists the world over."
Business Computer World, October 1997

"Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a stunning product."
PC Pro, November 1997

"Six stars, TOP SCORE"
PC Guide, Christmas '97 Buyers' Guide