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Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Legal Suite

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Managing your time wisely is the key to increasing client satisfaction while reducing overhead, overtime, and stress. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite is the award winning software product that can help you increase productivity and be more responsive to your clients.

With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite you dictate naturally and directly into your PC. Your words are immediately transcribed on your screen and into your document. You can quickly create briefs, time and billing records, correspondence, and e-mail. There is no need to wait hours or days for your work to be transcribed. You can even eliminate the fees paid to an outside service.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite is fast, accurate, and dependable. It was designed with features that meet the needs of legal professionals.

Dictate, format, and edit directly in Microsoft® Word or Corel® WordPerfect®. You can easily edit and format by voice using the Select-and-Say™ feature. Just choose the line, word, or paragraph that you want to change by saying "select" and Dragon Naturally Speaking makes the appropriate selection. You then can make any changes or modifications to the text by using a Dragon NaturallySpeaking Voice Command.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite has an extensive legal vocabulary of over 240,000 words including court names, case history and weight of authority, Latin and French phrases, litigation documents, hyphenates reporters and abbreviations. You can say the terms the way that you are used to and the words would be spelled the way you expect. For example, say "New York second district" and "N.Y. 2^nd" is written.
You can also create your own vocabulary with terms from your legal specialty and even client names. The Vocabulary Builder™ automatically analyzes documents on your hard disk and quickly creates a vocabulary for the way you write. The words are added with their correct spelling, pronunciation, and language usage for greater accuracy. You can create multiple vocabularies for multiple specialties or personal interests by selecting a different set of documents for each one.

Examples of legal terms, phrases, and abbreviations included
in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite.

Court Names	Bankr. (Bankruptcy), Fed.Cir. (Federal Court), T.C. (Tax Court)
Case History and weight of authority	Acq. In result, aff'd on reh'g, cert. Granted, mandamus denied, prob. Juris, noted, rev'd per curiam
Litigation Documents	Admis. (Admission), Decl. (Declaration), Hr'g (hearing)
Subdivisions of legal documents	Annot. (annotation), art. (article), cl. (clause), nn. (footnotes), prmbl. (preamble), sched. (schedule), 2d (second)
Latin and Law French phrases	Arguendo, emptor, fait accompli, force majeure, mesne
Hypenates	attorney-client, cross-claim, debtor-in-possession, three-judge
Reporters	A.2d, Cal. 3d, Fed. Reg., E. Supp., L. Ed 2d, N.Y.2d
State names, abbreviations, and postal codes	Massachusetts, Mass., MA

Macros are speech commands that allow you to enter boilerplate text in documents or execute complicated commands with a single word or phrase. The advanced macro capabilities, with a Basic-like scripting language, lets you add a natural, speech interface to existing applications for controlling your desktop.

Examples of Legal Macros That Can Be Designed

The DragonNaturally Speaking Legal Edition does not come with macro templates. The following are samples of macros that you, your technical staff person, or a Dragon Certified Reseller can create.

You say:	Resulting action
Open Time and Billing	Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite opens up a standard form for services. You say "Carlisle Mortgage" and the client information in filled in. Say "three hours" and dictate the specific information.
Check e-mail messages?	Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite goes to your e-mail and opens any new mail.
Open Employee Agreement	Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite opens the standard insurance letter and prompts you with "employee name" and "company".
Open Client Record Bill Smith	Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite opens up a "new client record" for "Bill Smith" and prompts you in filling in the form.

Top Features

True Continuous Speech

Speak to your computer naturally and at a normal pace-up to 160 words per minute and more-without pausing between words. Your words are immediately transcribed on the screen and into your document.

Highly Accurate

An independent study by PC Week Labs finds recognition accuracy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking to be "95% or higher." PC World reports 98% accuracy. Words are spelled correctly every time.

Large Legal Vocabulary

Comprehensive vocabulary of specialized legal terms for a variety of legal uses including court names, case history and weight of authority, Latin and French law phrases, litigation documents, hyphenates, reporters and abbreviations.

Design Legal Macros

Create your own custom speech commands for automating tasks and entering boilerplate text into legal records, reports, and correspondence.

Custom Vocabulary

Build multiple vocabularies for different topics including, legal specialties, special projects, and personal correspondence.

Dictation Playback

Check accuracy for content and intent by listening to what you said played back to you in your own voice.

Text-to-Speech

For accurate editing and proofing the computer reads back your text as it appears on the computer screen.

Easy Voice Editing

Easily edit, format, or correct words and phrases. Say "select" followed by such intuitive commands as "bold that" and "move to top of document" and your editing will be done.

Learns Your Voice

Learns dialects, accents, and individual pronunciations quickly and automatically.

Minimum System Requirements

166 MHz Pentium Processor
IBM-compatible PC Windows® 95, Windows® NT 4.0 or Windows® 98
Memory requirements, 32 MB for Windows® 95, 48 MB for Windows NT 4.0 or 32 MB for Windows® 98
Hard Disk requirements, 120 MB, 40 MB additional to save recorded speech, 15 MB additional to install Text-to-Speech

Also, recommended is a Dragon-certified or equivalent 16-bit sound card or built-in audio system with input quality equal to or greater than the Creative Labs® SoundBlaster®. Please contact Dragon Systems for the most up-to-date list of supported hardware. Owners of portables and IBM MWave-equipped systems should contact Dragon Systems for compatibility information. Speakers are required for sound output.

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