Become more productive and self-sufficient
Create accurate documents and update databases immediately -- letters, reports, memos, e-mail, spreadsheets, transaction confirmations, even invoices and checks -- without added transcription costs, errors, and delays.

Reduce document turnaround time
Dictate directly into your final document to eliminate the lengthy "dictate-transcribe-revise-approve" cycle.

Improve recognition performance
Add 60,000 business and financial terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations to the standard 120,000-word dictionary, for the most extensive business vocabulary available today. With so many specialized words built in, you save time and effort.

Streamline the documentation process
Use custom macros to automate your tasks; insert boilerplate, print a letter, or send a fax with a simple speech command.

Business and finance professionals can now enjoy the benefits of a speech recognition system tailored to their unique needs. With DragonBusiness and DragonDictate for Windows, you can easily create and edit letters, reports, e-mail, and spreadsheets; update databases; and report transactions using the specialized terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations your profession requires.

DragonDictate for Windows instantly converts what you say into text, and even lets you edit and format text from within your Windows or Windows 95 applications. With DragonDictate, you can:

• Speak rather than type
  
• Spell correctly every time
  
• Enter text and data while using your hands for another task
  
• Reduce repetitive keyboard and mouse motions
  
• Compute totally hands-free
  

DragonBusiness for Windows customizes DragonDictate for use in a variety of professional business applications, adding 60,000 carefully selected business and financial terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations to the standard dictionary. It analyzes your speech using spelling, acoustic, and language models optimized for a broad range of business applications.

Together, DragonDictate and DragonBusiness provide the most comprehensive speech solution available for all your demanding business and financial applications.

Highlights

Adds business terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations

• Incorporates the broadest range of business terminology available into the active vocabulary of DragonDictate for Windows Classic Edition (30,000 words) or Power Edition (60,000 words).
• Provides a comprehensive 180,000-word backup dictionary, including 60,000 additional business terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations (see examples below).

Provides language models optimized for business and finance

• More than just a word list, the specialized language models reflect how business and financial terminology is actually used. Recognition speed and accuracy are optimized using context and frequency information derived from millions of words in a broad range of business and financial journals, magazines, and other documents.

Examples of business terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations

• Finance and banking terms: 10k, blue-chip, closed-end, overcollateralized, interest-bearing, IRA, LBO, multibillion-dollar, N-1 Q, price-earnings, S&Ls, tax-exempt, T-bill, variable-rate
• General business terms: company-wide, cost-effective, CFO, ESOPs, FICA, fourth-quarter, lump-sum, one-time, outsource, self-insured, shareowners, Vice-President, W-2, writedown
• Companies on the AMEX: Badger Meter, Cambior, Daxor, Echo Bay Mines, Falcon Cable Systems, LaBarge, MedQuist, NVRyan, Pay-Fone Systems, Red Lion Inns, Smith Barney
• Companies on the NYSE: Delta Air Lines, Georgia-Pacific, Kroger, RJR Nabisco Holdings, PG&E, Philip Morris, PepsiCo, Schlumberger, Seagate, Seagate Technology, USAir, USF&G;
• Companies on the NASDAQ: DSC Communications, Florsheim, Fort Howard, Oracle Systems, Payco, Quaker Chemical, Sumitomo Bank, Syntro, Ultratech, Vanguard Cellular, Xilinx
• Endings for company names: Affiliates, Capital, General, Holding, Systems, Technologies
• Mutual funds: 20th Century, A.O. Smith, Concorde Value, Eclipse Financial Asset, First Boston, GT Global Equity, Kemper Funds A, Kemper Funds B, MMA Praxis, Portico Institutional
• US and worldwide banks: Citicorp, Dai-Ichi Bank, First Alabama Bancshares, Fleet Financial, Mediobanca, Norinchukin Bank, RepublicBank, Royal Bank of Canada, Sanwa Bank
• Investment institutions: Aetna Life & Casualty, Bear Stearns, Charles Schwab, D&B, Goldman Sachs, John Hancock, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Piper Jaffray, Salomon Brothers
• Bond ratings: A+, A1, AAA, Ba, BBB, C1, C3, Caa
• Government agencies: AEC, EEOC, FHLB, FNMA, GNMA, GSA, NEA, NIH, NLRB, NRC, U.N.
• Cities worldwide: Auckland, Canberra, Juneau, Kinshasa, Khabarovsk, Kuala Lumpur, Newburgh, Parsippany, Port Moresby, Sao Paulo, San Salvador, Vilnius, Winston-Salem
• Foreign currencies: balboas, Eurosterling, Euroyen, fivepence, Franc, guilders, korunas, krona, Kr. [krona], markkaa, schilling, shekels, Yen, yuans, zloties
• Fractions: 1/16, 1/10, 1/8, 1/3, 3/8, 7/16, 9/16, 5/8, 2/3, 13/16, 7/8, 15/16, 1 3/16, two-thirds

System Requirements

Minimum 486 / 66 MHz Processor
16 MB of RAM
Industry-standard 16-bit sound card or built-in certified audio systems on desktops and portables, including the SoundBlaster 16.
40 MB dedicated hard disk space
Windows 3.1/3.11 or later running in enhanced mode. | DOS 5.2 | DOS 6.1 for laptop. | Windows '95 | Windows NT
DragonDictate for Windows 1.3 or 2.x, Classic or Power Edition (US English)
A 3.5" high-density diskette drive and 15MB of (additional) hard disk space