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Youth Villages Increases Counselor Retention by Reducing Documentation Time Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Youth Villages, a leading private non-profit organization, is dedicated to helping children with serious emotional and behavioral problems and their families live successfully. Helping troubled youth is a stressful and demanding job requiring long hours and extensive paperwork. Youth Villages needed a way to streamline the documentation process to curb...

Tags: Youth, Nuance Communications Inc., Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2008-10-21

Fields Law Office Boosts Their Bottom Line With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Voice Recognition Software

Fields Law Office wanted to improve the efficiency by reducing the manually intensive and expensive process of transferring dictated case information into digital records with outside transcription services. The firm deployed Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software to digitize case data as it is created. The firm saved over $100,000 in...

Tags: Software, Voice Recognition, Microsoft Office, Nuance Communications Inc., Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Telephony, Telecommunications, Networking

Case studies 2008-07-23

Leading Insurance Firm Saves $1.2 Million Dollars With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Voice Recognition

Leading Insurance firm wanted to stay competitive by identifying and implementing an easy-to-use voice recognition solution that integrates with firm's document creation processes, reducing costly transcription services. The firm deployed Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal on 150 desktops to digitize information as it is created so there is no need for transcription...

Tags: Voice Recognition, Nuance Communications Inc., Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Insurance, Telephony, Telecommunications, Networking

Case studies 2008-07-23

Bromberg & Sunstein Use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to Speed Up Workflow & Save Tens of Thousands of Dollars

Bromberg & Sunstein provides legal representation with a focus on IP, including patent, litigation, and prosecution. Bromberg & Sunstein wanted to protect legal professionals from debilitating repetitive stress injuries cased by typing and using a mouse, while not reducing workflow. Bromberg & Sunstein deployed Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal voice recognition software...

Tags: Nuance Communications Inc., Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Workflow, Process Improvement, Mice, Quality, Business Operations, Hardware, Peripherals

Case studies 2008-07-23

Ferrell Companies Accelerates Productivity in Salesforce.com With Dragon NaturallySpeaking

For over 34 years, Ferrell Companies has been serving the construction industry by providing cutting-edge software technology solutions designed to save time and money for contractors. The company wanted to increase the productivity of an injured employee using a CRM tool that currently requires a significant amount of hand typing...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software Technology, Nuance Communications Inc., Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Case studies 2008-07-23

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Helps Clearwater Police Fight Crime

With limited funding, government organizations must do things faster and at a cheaper cost in order to keep up with ever increasing workloads. The Clearwater Police Department in Florida is no exception. The Department wanted to improve the efficiency of the police department by eliminating the need for officers to...

Tags: Nuance Communications Inc., Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Officer, Productivity

Case studies 2008-02-01

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred 9

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 is the most full-featured consumer software for dictating to your computer. Dragon types while you talk so that you can let your fingers rest while writing, and it lets you surf the Net by voice. For the first time, Dragon allows you to start using this program...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Web browsers, Word processors, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Dragon, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9

Product reviews 2006-08-17

Dragon Naturally Speaking -- first impressions

After reading recommendations from two people whose opinions I have come to trust about the brand-new version 9.0 of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, I decided it might very well be time to take a second look at voice dictation and command on the PC. David Pogue, writing in the New York Times,...

Tags: Dragon

Blog posts 2006-07-28

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Advances in TREKnology

In September of 1966, the NBC television network released an iconic but short lived series that would inspire generations of inventors and technologists to bring about changes in our daily lives in the use of technology that many of us take for granted but was once...

Tags: Netscape Communicator, Star Trek, Technology, Information Technology Star Trek, McCoy, E-mail Clients, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 (Windows)

Avoid typing and use your voice to create documents, control applications and use the PC. Speech is a fast and natural way to create new documents - and with Dragon NaturallySpeaking you can accurately dictate at up to 160 words-per-minute.

Tags: ScanSoft Inc., Microsoft Windows, Telecommunications, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-06-05

Can health care make voice interfaces viable?

One of the big surprises in my career, watching technology develop, has been the failure of voice interfaces. (Image from Paramount.) Chalk it up to accents and the complexity of English. Listen to a Southerner or a Scotsman and the problem becomes obvious. Better yet try listening...

Tags: Medicine, Voice, Health Care, Clinician, Professional Development, Vertical Industries, Career, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-06

Dragon speech recognition comes to the Mac

The big brand in text-to-speech technology will be native on the Macintosh this quarter, according to MacSpeech, the company that landed the licensing deal. It's yet another hurdle overcome for switchers to the Mac. The announcement was made here at the Macworld Expo earlier in the week....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Speech Recognition, Desktops, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-01-17

With some reviewers, Microsoft can't win

With some reviewers, Microsoft can't winCustomers are like that....... we get similar things on frequent enough basis to be well used to it. The phrase [i]"Can we have facility xxxxx?"[/i] followed some time later by [i]"Can you remove facility xxxxx?"[/i]. On follow up the most common reason for removal is...

Tags: Backups, Microsoft Corp., backup, Pogue

Discussion threads 2006-12-19

With some reviewers, Microsoft can't win

Americas newspaper of record, The New York Times, published David Pogues review of Windows Vista a couple days ago. After reading it, I got an e-mail from a longtime reader who wondered whether this excerpt is true:Windows finally comes with a prominent backup program. That’s great, except that you can...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., e-mail, Microsoft Windows, hard drive, Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2006-12-19

Microsoft stranglehold on disabled market is broken

Microsoft stranglehold on disabled market is brokenCan you sayB!tch slap from IBM! Excellent move big blue! ]:)They finally stepped up and quit ignoring the handicap.MS didn't have a strangle hold on the disabled market. It was the hardware companies that provided MS only drivers. That hardware also costed a fortune...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu, speech recognition, software, open source

Discussion threads 2006-12-15

Windows Vista's 30-day report card

Windows Vista's 30-day report cardReport Cardstill think I'll wait until about June to see the "How it is going"Like you ...... I started in July and was dismayed at how sluggish Vista (Beta 2) was when applied to even robust hardware. I even prematurely went out and bought extra...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-12-07

Apple tablet coming soon?

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of the concept of an Apple tablet. It would be a great machine for commuting, allowing me to keep up with news and email on-the-go. New reports indicate that Apple may be close to releasing such a beast in 2007. ...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Tablets, Apple Macintosh, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Smarthouse

Blog posts 2006-11-27

New toys - USB Skype phone

I've been testing an evaluation unit of the SkyTone USB Phone (RST102) from Radian Technologies, a conventional looking telephony handset with a USB cord designed to be used with Skype. It works very well and, based on feedback from dozens of people I spoke to using it, the sound quality...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skytone

Blog posts 2006-08-26

Rocky Mountain high for open source

Rocky Mountain high for open sourceSomeone call the Microsoft police...Oh no! Another organization using Open Office-time for Microsoft to send in the clowns, whoops I mean lobbyists to switch them back over to Microsoft Office 2007...where is Mike Cox already?Waiting for Anton to chime in abouthow it's a bad...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Linux STILL, Linux, open source, Rocky Mountain

Discussion threads 2006-02-24

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 8

Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 voice-recognition software lets you use voice commands to produce text documents and surf the Internet, thereby minimizing your typing. It fills a need for PC users who can't or won't use a mouse and a keyboard. Dragon offers intuitive speech commands and lots of hand-holding to...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Dragon

Product reviews 2006-02-10