Up to 99% Accurate and Three Times Faster than Typing

Most people speak more than 120 words per minute, but type less than 40 words a minute. That means you can create documents and emails about three times faster with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Dragon never makes a spelling mistake, and it actually gets smarter the more you use it!

Easy to Use

Dragon NaturallySpeaking installs quickly and requires no special script reading. New on-screen help and tutorials will make you an expert user in no time.

Use with Many Windows Programs

Use your voice to dictate, edit and control applications such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and AOL.

NEW Search the Web and Your Computer with Dragon Voice Shortcuts

Use Dragon Voice Shortcuts to quickly search for information on the Web or on your own computer. Need to find some information on the Web? Just say "Search the Web for global warming articles," "Search Wikipedia for George Washington Carver," or "Search eBay for Batman comic books." Searching the Web or your computer has never been faster — or easier.

Bluetooth Support

Use Dragon NaturallySpeaking with Nuance-approved Bluetooth headsets.

Be Productive on the Go

Dictate into any Nuance-certified handheld device for automatic transcription when you synch with your PC.

More Accurate Than Ever

Unrivaled desktop speech recognition accuracy; up to 20% more accurate than Version 9

Faster Than Ever

Significant improvement of response time; more than 50% reduction in the time it takes for words to appear on the screen

Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Email and Calendar

Dragon Voice Shortcuts collapse common multi-step tasks into direct voice commands. Now you can send emails and schedule meetings — faster than ever

At any time, no matter what is active on your screen, you can automatically create and address an email. For example, if you're reviewing a website and you need to send an email to colleagues, just say, "Send email to Jon Smith and Raphael Sanchez," and Dragon will activate your email program, create a new email and put the contact names you've said into the "To:" box. For new meetings or appointments, you can say, "Schedule meeting with Jon Smith and Raphael Sanchez," and Dragon jumpstarts the process by opening a new calendar entry in Outlook and adding to it the selected contact(s). You can also say, "Schedule appointment with Design Team" or "Schedule an event with All Employees" using existing contact lists.

Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Web Search

Dragon Voice Shortcuts collapse common multi-step tasks into direct voice commands. Now you can search the Web for information, products, news and more — faster than ever

Dragon Voice Shortcuts make searching the Web faster and easier. Just say commands containing your desired search words, such as "Search the Web for financial management resources" or "Search maps for Italian restaurants in Burlington 01803," and Dragon 10 will use the default search engine and Web browser to enter your dictated term(s) in the search field and return the results. Thanks to Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" search, you can also get the top-ranked site directly, by saying, "Find a site about motorcycles." You may also search specific sites directly for videos, images, news, articles and products using commands such as "Search Wikipedia for George Washington Carver," or "Search eBay for Bluetooth headsets." Sites supported by Dragon Voice Shortcuts include Google, Yahoo, eBay, Wikipedia, YouTube, about.com, and more.

Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Desktop Search

Dragon Voice Shortcuts collapse common multi-step tasks into direct voice commands. Now you can search your computer — faster than ever

Dragon 10 introduces commands to search your computer as directly as the Web, by dictating the word(s) to find in documents, emails and Web-browsing history. For example, you can say, "Search computer for launch plans" and Dragon will complete the search using Google Desktop or Windows Vista desktop search. In addition, commands such as "Find an email about the Robinson report" directly open the top email containing the dictated keywords. Searching your computer has never been faster — or easier.

Quick Voice Formatting ("Delete | Copy | Bold | Underline | Italicize " commands)

New direct commands for formatting, deleting, and copying words and passages

Rather than selecting the relevant word(s) or passage and commanding what to do with that text (e.g., "Select very, [pause] Bold that"), you can now directly name the desired text with the desired action in a single voice command, such as "Bold very." Just like in the familiar "Select " commands, you can even designate a whole passage by quoting its first and last word(s).

New UI Look and Feel

Updated icons are intuitive and easy to see

Dragon 10 introduces new graphical icons to enhance the DragonBar user interface, including a larger microphone icon, making the product easier to use.

Improved Help System and Tutorials

Includes enhanced Sample Commands window and interactive HTML tutorial with a completely new look and feel

Dragon 10 offers an enhanced Sample Commands window and interactive tutorial with a completely new look and feel. The new Web and Flash-based system offers improved navigation and content — comprehensive resources are just a command away! In addition, Dragon 10 also introduces a new mechanism to enable the creation of customizable help screens for end-users to be reminded of their favorite commands.

Improved Natural Commands for Microsoft Office 2007

Use your voice to control advanced features of Microsoft Office 2007

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 makes it easier than ever to use speech recognition with Microsoft Office. Use your voice to dictate, edit and control applications like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Improved Natural Commands for Mozilla Firefox

Improved Web browser experience is now available for Firefox

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 makes it easier than ever to use speech recognition with Mozilla Firefox, the award-winning Web browser used by tens of millions of people worldwide: you can now benefit from Natural Language commands, and the ability to activate a hyperlink by just saying part of its name.

More Flexible Enrollment for younger speakers and users with certain speech challenges

Self-paced reading is available for speakers who have difficulty with the existing interactive text passages

Reading an acoustic training text efficiently teaches one's voice to the software, and Dragon 10 offers an easier way to do it: print or view the entire text and record it at your own pace—without needing to satisfy the validation done by the software in the original prompt screens. By making it easier to train the product to one's voice, Dragon 10 improves the experience for younger users and users with certain speech challenges.

Regional Accent Support

Significant increase in accuracy for accented speakers by using more advanced adaptation techniques and accent-specific models.

Following a significant data collection effort and research, Dragon 10 incorporates new acoustic models for better coverage of non-native and regional accents. Together with more powerful adaptation techniques, this will help everyone get better recognition accuracy — from the very first use.

Option to Disable Microsoft Text Services (CTFMon)

Easily turn off Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (CTFMon) to eliminate potential conflicts with Dragon

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 reduces to a simple checkbox the multi-step process of disabling alternative services that may cause conflicts, such as advanced technical services on Windows XP or handwriting features on tablet PCs.

Better control of commands vs. dictation on the Web

Require "Click" for hyperlinks and disable Web commands separately from dictation support

Dragon 10 helps ensure a comfortable experience on the Web, addressing the concern that words you mean to dictate may be interpreted as a command, even if said in isolation. Dragon 10 now provides finer options for optimal comfort on the Web whether you intend dictation or action: one can disable HTML commands and also require saying "Click" for hyperlinks separately, without disabling dictation support. In addition, Dragon 10 replaces some existing single-word HTML commands with multiple-word equivalents, to avoid confusion with those single words meant as dictation:

DragonTemplates with Voice Fields

Quickly automate form filling applications

When creating Text-and-Graphics commands, you can now include variable fields to easily create templates that can be filled out by voice or by hand.

Auto Configuration for Optimal Performance Based on System Profile

Latency configuration on "slow" machines and per-application disabling of Natural Language commands. Installation automatically detects PC's resources and adjusts options for optimal speed.

During installation, Dragon 10 automatically analyzes your PC's resources and changes default settings as needed to increase speed; this may include moving the Speed vs. Accuracy slider towards speed and disabling the Natural Language commands in some applications. The users can later change these options if they wish. In addition, DNS10 gives finer control over the support for Natural Language commands, which means users can gain speed if they only use Natural Language commands in some applications. One can disable these large sets of flexible command wordings separately for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Corel WordPerfect.

Formatting and Word Properties Interface Enhancements

New Formatting dialog and Word Properties let you control the written forms more finely than ever, including alternate forms, spacing and capitalization before and after each item.

Dragon 10 gives easier and finer control over the form, spacing and capitalization of items written in various contexts (e.g., inserting a space before or after, capitalizing the next word, or using alternate forms like "Fig." instead of "figure" before numerals.) For instance, if you want all numbers between zero and ten to be written as numerals, you can now simply set this with just one check on the Formatting dialog.

Embedded Data Collection Tool

Data Collection engine embedded in the product

A New User Wizard screen invites users to participate in a program designed to collect data to improve the overall accuracy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. The option is off by default.

Minimum Specifications

• CPU: Intel® Pentium® / 1 GHz processor or equivalent AMD processor. Faster processors will yield faster performance. Memory: 512 MB RAM (1 GB RAM for Windows Vista™)
• Free hard disk space: 1 GB (2 GB for localized non-English versions)
• L2 Cache: 512 KB
• Supported Operating Systems:
  • Windows Server 2000
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows XP SP2 or higher, 32-bit
  • Windows 2000 SP4 or higher
  • Windows Vista™ or Windows Vista™ SP1, 32-bit
• DVD-ROM drive (required for installation)
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 or higher
• Nuance-approved noise-canceling headset microphone (included), Creative® Labs Sound Blaster® 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording, speakers (required for playback of recorded speech and text to speech features)
• For Bluetooth wireless microphone support, please visit support.nuance.com/compatibility/
• A Web connection is required for activation

During the install process the software checks to make sure your system meets these minimum requirements. If you do not meet the requirements, the software will not be installed.

This edition of Dragon does not support dictation directly into Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems. For EMR support, please use Dragon Medical Edition.

Recommended Specifications

• CPU: Intel® Pentium® / 2.4 GHz processor (1.6 GHz dual core processor) or equivalent AMD processor
• Memory: 1 GB RAM
• L2 Cache: 1 MB