Hand-Held Medical Solution Bundles Recorder, Award-Winning Speech Recognition Software, Comprehensive Vocabulary and Extensive Customization Features To Boost Mobile Medical Professionals' Productivity

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile Medical Suite is a complete package for medical professionals that includes the award-winning Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software, the Dragon NaturallyMobile™ pocket-sized recorder, a comprehensive medical vocabulary, and a copy of Corel® WordPerfect® Suite 8. The Dragon NaturallySpeaking software supports Corel WordPerfect and Microsoft® Word. New features in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile Medical Suite include the Dragon NaturallyMobile digital recorder with built-in microphone and speaker with advanced file capabilities, powerful voice editing and formatting capabilities within most third party applications, hands-free features for navigating and controlling Windows, and support for Microsoft SAPI 4.0.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile Medical Suite enables medical professionals to create patient records, medical reports, notes, correspondence, and other documents at their PC or by speaking into the hand-held recorder. When the user is ready, the recordings can be downloaded to a PC using a high-speed serial link and the linking software provided with the product. Dragon NaturallySpeaking software then transcribes the text.

"Now medical professionals have the ability to create patient notes and records on the fly and they can reduce transcription costs and turn-around time for most of their dictation. Our goal is to deliver the most accurate continuous speech solutions for medical professionals in a package that makes it easy for them to use," said Roger Matus, Vice President of North American Marketing at Dragon Systems.

DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING MOBILE MEDICAL SUITE COMPONENTS

The Dragon NaturallyMobile recorder optimized for speech recognition quality. It incorporates a high quality built-in microphone that can be used in most settings. The recording is stored digitally in a special compressed format that, unlike some other compression formats, contains all of the information needed for accurate transcription. The recorder weighs under four ounces (excluding batteries), is slim and compact enough to fit easily in a shirt pocket and can be held comfortably in the palm of a hand. The Dragon NaturallyMobile recorder has the flexibility of a professional dictation device, including a built-in speaker, multiple customizable folders, easy scrolling between recordings, time/date stamping, and a back lit LCD display. The recorder can hold an unlimited amount of speech using the interchangeable memory cards. The recorder holds 40 minutes of dictation with its built-in memory. An additional 20, 40 or 80 minutes can be added with removable memory cards of 2MB, 4MB, or 8MB respectively. The memory cards, which are the same type used in many digital camera devices, are conveniently and widely available at camera and consumer electronic stores.

AVAILABILITY, SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS AND PRICING

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile Medical Suite supports Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0. It requires a minimum of a Pentium® 133 with 32 MB RAM and 48 MB RAM for Windows NT. 120 MB hard disk space is required for installation. For best results, a Pentium 200 is recommended with 64 MB of RAM; this allows users to take advantage of BestMatch technology for improved accuracy and performance. Requirements may vary depending on the features being used. The product is expected to ship worldwide in mid-February with a suggested list price of $1,095 US, and will be available through Dragon's VAR channel. Existing Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical Suite users can upgrade to the new medical mobile solution for an SRP of $199. For information on upgrades, Dragon Systems' customers should contact 21st Century Eloquence at 1-800-245-2133 and/or 1-561-835-4900.

DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING MOBILE MEDICAL SUITE DESKTOP FEATURES

• MEDICAL VOCABULARY — Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile Medical Suite includes a vocabulary of more than 230,000 words, including an extensive collection of medical terms, phrases and abbreviations, as well as information on how the terms are used within typical medical documents. This specialized vocabulary helps medical professionals achieve higher accuracy more quickly, reducing the effort required to adapt the software for use in specialized medical practice areas.
• ENHANCED SELECT-AND-SAY FUNCTIONALITY — In addition to support for Microsoft Word® 97, Corel® WordPerfect® 8, and the Dragon NaturallySpeaking window, the latest version expands the availability of Select-and-Say functionality to a variety of third party applications, including GoldMine, Microsoft WordPad, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Chat 2.0 and 2.5. Select-and-Say enables users to select words or phrases that they wish to edit simply by saying "Select" and then saying the new word or phrase.
• CONTROL WINDOWS DESKTOP BY VOICE — Users can open Windows applications from the start menu, launch applications from the desktop, navigate menu items in virtually all Windows applications, including Microsoft Office 97, and switch between Windows applications by voice.
• Corel WordPerfect and Microsoft Word Support — The Dragon NaturalWord™ feature allows users to work within Corel WordPerfect 8 or Microsoft Word 97 completely by voice. Users can dictate text directly into their documents, then use the "Select and Say" feature to make fast, easy edits and corrections. Intuitive, built-in voice commands such as "Bold That" improves productivity by automating common tasks.
• Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 — A licensed copy of Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 is included.
• SAPI 4.0 SUPPORT — Support for industry standard API ensures that Dragon NaturallySpeaking will seamlessly integrate with future speech-enabled Windows applications that support this standard.
• NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMANDS — Easy to use and easy to remember commands can be issued in a natural way to edit and format text within Microsoft Word 97. For example, a user can say "Make a five by two table," or many other variations.
• WORKS IN VIRTUALLY ANY WINDOWS APPLICATION — Users just point their mouse and click in any application. Their text automatically appears in the text window where the cursor is. It works well with Microsoft Word®, Corel WordPerfect®, Lotus Notes®, WordPro®, e-mail packages, Internet chat packages and more.
• Command wizard — The New Command Wizard utilizing the built-in macro scripting language makes it easy for end-users or Dragon Certified Resellers to create simple, intuitive voice commands to insert boilerplate text, automate common tasks, or integrate speech into existing applications or templates.
• Multiple Topic Support — Allows users to store custom words and language usage information on several topics to increase the accuracy of dictation within each topic.
• MULTIPLE USER SUPPORT — More than one user may create their own voice files and store them on the computer.
• HIGHLY ACCURATE — BestMatch™ technology reduces errors for most users by an additional 25% over previous versions. The accuracy in previous versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking was already reported to be from 95% to 98% in independent reviews by industry publications.
• LARGE ACTIVE VOCABULARY — The active vocabulary comes with more than 72,000 words that are ready to use. Over 230,000 words are on disk and can be automatically retrieved by the system. Each word contains spelling, pronunciation, and language usage information for high accuracy. Users can customize the vocabulary with up to 54,000 new words, proper names, and specialized terms.
• IMPROVED FORMATTING — Users can dictate numbers, e-mail addresses, and more using natural language. A user could say "Sixty-seven dollars and twenty-six cents," and see $67.26 appear on the screen.
• SPEECH PLAYBACK — Recorded speech playback allows users to listen to what they said for easier proofreading and editing. The text-to-speech feature allows users to have words that appear on the screen read aloud to them using high quality text-to-speech from ELAN Informatique™.
• TRUE CONTINUOUS SPEECH — Users speak naturally and at a normal pace without the need to pause between words. Dragon NaturallySpeaking was the first product on the market that recognized large vocabulary general-purpose continuous speech.

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