Improve recognition performance
Add 60,000 terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations covering a broad range of current issues and events to the standard 120,000-word pronunciation dictionary, for the most extensive contemporary vocabulary available today. With so many words built in, you save time and effort.

Reduce repetitive keyboard and mouse motions
Prevent or relieve the effects of Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI).

Become more productive and self-sufficient
Create polished, accurately spelled documents immediately 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.

Streamline document creation and revision
Use custom macros to automate your work; insert boilerplate, format, edit, or print your documents, or perform other routine tasks using simple speech commands.

Journalists, writers, and other well-educated professionals who use exceptionally broad, contemporary vocabularies across diverse topics can now enjoy the benefits of a speech recognition system tailored to their unique needs. With DragonEXTRA! and DragonDictate for Windows, you can dictate and edit documents using the contemporary terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations your profession requires.

DragonDictate for Windows instantly converts what you say into text. You can edit and format text directly in your Windows or Windows 95 applications, as you dictate or during any subsequent editing sessions. You can even use the keyboard and mouse while dictating to perform formatting and other tasks more efficiently. 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
  

DragonEXTRA! for Windows customizes DragonDictate to include carefully selected terminology relating to current issues and events. It adds 60,000 terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations to the standard dictionary, and analyzes your speech using spelling, acoustic, and language models optimized for the communication and analysis of contemporary topics.

These models are based on over six years of extensive feedback from DragonDictate users in a variety of professions, consultation with industry specialists, and analysis of contemporary newspapers, journals, magazines, and other sources covering a broad range of professional disciplines.

Together, DragonDictate and DragonEXTRA! provide the most comprehensive speech solution available today for all your demanding writing tasks.

Highlights

Adds contemporary terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations

• Incorporates the broadest range of contemporary terminology available into the customizable 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 terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations (see examples below).

Language models optimized for current issues and events

• More than just a word list, the specialized language models reflect how contemporary terminology is actually used. Recognition speed and accuracy are optimized using context and frequency information derived from a broad range of newspapers, magazines, journals, and other current sources.

Examples of contemporary terms, phrases, names, and abbreviations

• Politics: Attorney General, Bill Clinton, Democratic, fund-raising, front-runner, Gov., Gramm-Rudman, Newt, Parliamentary, Pataki, policy-making, right-wing, Republican
• Names in the news: Boutros-Ghali, Chechen, Cobain, Gerstner, Iraqis, Kerkorian, O.J., McVeigh, Milosevic, Rather, Rifkind, Slobodan, Somalis, Unabomber
• Places in the news: Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chechnya, Chunnel, Cyberspace, Ebola, Grozny, Pinatubo, Tinseltown
• Celebrities: Beavis, Boyz, Carrey, Cybill, Deion, DeVito, Gere, Gower, Hootie, Ice-T, Indurain, Koontz, Leeson, Lindros, Morissette, Ovitz, Raitt, Sampras, Scotty, U2, Wogan
• Sports: 10k, Aggies, All-Star, at-bats, changeup, FG, Fenway, homestand, Iditarod, luge, phenom, Rockets, skybox, snowboarding, TDs, three-point, ticketholders, UNLV
• Government affairs: AFDC, airstrikes, AK-47, Chief Justice, EFTA, free-trade, GSA, inner-city, NEA, NIH, NLRB, RICO, Secretary-General, state-controlled, surface-to-air
• Religion: Assembly of God, Bulgarian Orthodox, Church of England, Confucianist, Evangelical Protestant, Jehovah's Witnesses, Shia Muslim, Society of Friends
• Media and entertainment: ABC-TV, co-starring, C-SPAN, docudrama, infotainment, Miramax, moviemaking, Newsday, newsmagazines, off-Broadway, Pinewood, PG-13
• Companies: Activision, Amgen, Broderbund, Cablevision, EDS, Genentech, Hoechst, Hewlett-Packard, Kyocera, Matsushita, Mercedes-Benz, Netscape, Nokia, Symantec
• Brands: Infiniti, M&M, Plexiglas, Rolls Royce, Sensor, Snapple, Starbucks, Wheaties
• Common phrases: bite-size, blood-alcohol, burned-out, best-selling, de facto, do-it-yourself, energy-efficient, long-term, rush-hour, self-addressed, state-of-the-art
• Current interest: anti-abortion, Arab-Israeli, arugula, AZT, bloodstains, carjackings, cease-fire, gun-control, hantavirus, intifadah, low-fat, malathion, multiculturalism, overfishing, pro-choice, victimhood, Whaling Commission
• Jargon, slang, and new words: biotech, bloop, bluesy, blurted, bummed, clockers, deadheads, dissing, fellas, gonna, goo, homeboys, hmmm, hyped, in-line, kinda, Luv, minivan, nerd, newsgroups, nope, Prez, schmooze, skinhead, tagger, techies, T-shirt, twentysomething, VCRs, vibe, wahoo, wannabe, y'all, zap

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