Features and
Benefits
Become more productive and self-sufficient
Create polished, accurately spelled documents - memos, letters, reports, even e-mail messages and spreadsheets - without administrative costs, errors, and delays.
Reduce document turnaround time
Dictate directly into your final document to eliminate the lengthy "dictate-transcribe-edit-approve" cycle.
Improve recognition performance
Add 60,000 specialized computer-related terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations to the standard 120,000-word dictionary, for the most extensive computer-industry vocabulary available in a PC speech recognition system. With so many 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.
Computer industry professionals can now enjoy the benefits of a speech recognition system tailored to their unique needs. With DragonTech and DragonDictate for Windows, you can easily create and edit memos, letters, reports, e-mail, spreadsheets, and other documents using the specialized terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations your technical 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
DragonTech for Windows customizes DragonDictate for use in a variety of computer-related professional applications, adding 60,000 technical 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 computer industry applications.
These models are based on over six years of extensive feedback from DragonDictate users in the computer industry, consultation with technical specialists, magazine and journal articles, computer hardware and software documentation, and a variety of other relevant sources.
Together, DragonDictate and DragonTech provide the most comprehensive speech solution available for all your demanding computer-related applications.
Highlights
Adds computer-related terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations
- Incorporates the broadest range of computer 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 computer industry terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations (see examples below).
Provides language models optimized for the computer industry
- More than just a word list, the specialized language models reflect how computer 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 technical journals, industry-specific magazines, and other relevant documents.
Examples of computer terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations
- Brand names: AmiPro, BizPlanBuilder, CorelSCSI, DeskJet, FrameMaker, LANtastic, LapLink, Myst, Notes, PowerBooks, ProShare, QuickTime, SimAnt, Sparcstation, WinBatch
- Companies: Adaptec, Attachmate, BBN, Caere, Edmark, Hewlett-Packard, Kao, Lexmark, LucasArts, McAfee, MicroAge, Micrografx, Mitsumi, Nokia, Pixar, Seagate, Shiva, SyQuest, Zeos
- Networking terms: 100BaseT, ethernet, firewalls, H.320, IPX, LAN-to-LAN, NDS, NETX, NLM, PPP, SMTP, tokenized, X.400
- Desktop computers: 80x86, AppleScript, AppleTalk, DLLs, IRQ, ISA, Linux, NuBus, P120, PowerMac, PowerPCs, SoftPC, SYSTEM.INI, UNIX-based, VBX, VxD, Win32s
- Online: AOL, browsers, faxmodem, FTP, Galacticomm, Gopher, HotJava, HTML, hyperlink, MSN, newsgroup, SYSOP, Winsock, WWW
- Standards: Dhrystones, FireWire, IBM-compatible, iCOMP, MAPI, MPEG, NTFS, ODAPI, ODBC, OpenDoc, OpenGL, PCMCIA, QIC, SDLC, SOM, TAPI, UltraSCSI, Winstone
- Computer media: Berst, InfoWorld, Katt, Langa, Machrone, MacWEEK, MacWorld, Newsbytes, ZiffNet
- Industry names: Amelio, Ballmer, Carmack, Frankenberg, Gerstner, Ludwick, McCaw, McNealy, Noorda, Stallman
- Miscellaneous terms: 640x480, backplanes, bitmaps, CeBIT, debugged, DIMMs, drag-and-drop, EDO, EPROM, Floptical, FORTRAN, GUIs, multithreading, PDA, SDK, signal-to-noise, SQA, SVGA, TFT, toolbar, VAXes, wavesolder, wavetable
System Requirements
Minimum 486 / 66 MHz Processor
16 MB of RAM | Recommended 24 MB for NT
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
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