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Introduction

The World's Best-Selling Speech-Recognition Software for Professionals!

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional enables professional PC users to create documents and emails, fill out forms, and streamline workflow tasks-all by speaking! Fast, easy and amazingly accurate. Offers complete hands-free use of the PC for disabled users

Three Keys to Success With Speech-recognition

Those who are given hardware guidance, and learn to use the software in their environment from a speech-recognition trainer will succeed with speech-recognition beyond those who do not receive such expert support. In more than three years of providing speech-recognition services, Speakeasy Solutions has been able to quantify who succeeds, who fails and why.

The three keys to being successful with speech-recognition are:

Solutions Series (Professional, Medical & Legal) Top Features

• Amazingly Accurate - More accurate than ever before, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 is often more accurate than typing. Dragon NaturallySpeaking actually gets smarter the more you use it!
• Faster Than Typing - Most people speak over 120 words per minute, but type less than 40 words a minute. That means you can create letters, reports and emails about three times faster with Dragon NaturallySpeaking!
• Easy to Use - Dictate letters, emails and surf the web by voice right away! No script reading required to get started.
• Use with Almost Any Windows Program - Use your voice to dictate, edit and control virtually any Windows application, including the full Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Corel WordPerfect.
• Network Ready - Use Dragon NaturallySpeaking from any PC on your organization's network, including a Citrix client or server system.
• Bluetooth Support - Use Dragon NaturallySpeaking with Bluetooth headsets. Convenient to use with a Tablet PC system!
• Mobile - Dictate into a supported digital voice recorder for automatic transcription when you synch with your PC.
• Hands-Free - Dragon NaturallySpeaking gives people with disabilities complete hands-free use of the PC. The ideal tool to assist people with carpal tunnel syndrome or other repetitive stress injuries.
• Robust Customization - Quickly create simple commands that will enter blocks of text. Automate complex, multi-step tasks. Easily import personal words and phrases into the existing vocabulary.

Professional

The World's Best-Selling Speech-Recognition Software for Professionals!

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional enables professional PC users to create documents and emails, fill out forms, and streamline workflow tasks-all by speaking! Fast, easy and amazingly accurate. Talk to your computer and your words instantly appear in the full Microsoft Office Suite, plus Microsoft Internet Explorer, Corel WordPerfect, Lotus Notes, and virtually all other Windows-based applications. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 offers complete hands-free use of the PC for disabled users. Create custom vocabularies to maximize recognition accuracy. Includes administrative tools for large distributed network deployments, such as support for Citrix terminals. You can even dictate into a digital voice recorder device when you're away from your PC, or use a Bluetooth microphone!

Medical

Reduce or Eliminate the Cost of Transcription!

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical enables medical professionals to get complete clinical notes instantly and at a fraction of the cost of manual transcription. Save tens of thousands of dollars per year per physician. Fast, easy and amazingly accurate -- 25% more accurate than the prior release. Use with most Microsoft Office applications, or most Windows based and compliant Electronic Medical Records application. Packaged with 14 preconfigured medical specialty vocabularies, and allows you to create other custom vocabularies to maximize recognition accuracy. Includes administrative tools for large distributed network deployments, such as support for Citrix terminals. You can even dictate into a digital voice recorder device when you're away from your PC, or use a Bluetooth microphone!

Specialty vocabularies include:

• Cardiology (including cardiovascular, cardiothoracic, geriatric, paediatric cardiology, chemotherapy and electrophysiology),
• Emergency,
• Gastroenterology (including paediatric gastroenterology),
• General practice (including internal medicine, speech, rheumatology, EMG, dermatology, allergy, pulmonary, internal medicine, nephrology, infectious diseases, haematology, endocrinology, family medicine, sleep, geriatric medicine, oncology, immunology, substance abuse, epidemiology, osteopathy, medical education),
• General medical,
• Mental health (including psychiatry, diabetes, sexual assault, addiction, language pathology),
• Neurology (including anesthesia, physical therapy & rehabilitation, pain management, EEG, angioplasty, interventional radiology),
• Obstetrics/gynaecology (including reproductive endocrinology, fetal medicine, midwifery, perinatology),
• Oncology (including radiation therapy, diagnostic radiology),
• Orthopaedics (including neurosurgery, podiatry, plastic surgery, ENT surgery, hand surgery, dentistry, ophthalmology surgery),
• Pathology,
• Paediatrics (including neonatology, paediatric ENT, paediatric dentistry, paediatric endocrinology),
• Radiology (including nuclear medicine), and
• Surgery (including vascular surgery, urology, cardiac & thoracic surgery, colon & rectal surgery, general paediatric surgery, trauma surgery, breast surgery, proctology, bariatric surgery).

Legal

Create Contacts, Documents and E-Mails Three Times Faster Than Typing!

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal enables legal professionals to create and edit documents, forms and emails, all by speaking! Fast, easy and amazingly accurate. Talk to your computer and your words instantly appear in the Microsoft Office Suite, plus Microsoft Internet Explorer, Corel WordPerfect, Lotus Notes, and most Windows-based applications. Automatically formats legal citations! Create special voice commands that instantly build and format templates for contracts or other legal documents. Create custom vocabularies to maximize recognition accuracy. Includes administrative tools for large distributed network deployments, such as support for Citrix terminals. You can even dictate into a digital voice recorder, or use a Bluetooth microphone!

Languages

Other than the English language, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 8 is available for the following languages:

• French,
• German,
• Italian,
• Spanish,
• Japanese and
• Dutch.

Each language version comes with English as well -- so if you speak another language, ensure you obtain the non English language version so you have both available to you.

What's New in Version 9

Unprecedented Speech Recognition Accuracy

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 is up to 20% more accurate than Version 8.

Expanded language models and improved acoustic training techniques deliver the largest accuracy increase of any release in the history of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 contains two new technical innovations that improve upon the core speech recognition accuracy. The two innovations are:

• Pelaudio Acoustic Scale Score (PASS) -- PASS represents the latest evolution of Dragon's patented approach to speaker-dependent speech recognition. The implementation of PASS in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 involves taking a given phonetic element and applying a series of complex statistical and algorithm transformations to create a per phonetic element PASS score that can then be used to develop higher accuracy results with greater confidence.
• SilentAdapt -- SilentAdapt further improves speech recognition accuracy in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 by providing continuous acoustic adaptation without user intervention. The result is much improved accuracy and a simpler user experience as changes and modifications in acoustics are factored into the user's profile transparently.

No Training Required

New users can get started dictating right away without reading any "training scripts".

Supports Enterprise Wide Deployments

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 supports Citrix environments, enabling users to dictate from workstations that do not have Dragon NaturallySpeaking installed. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 makes your unique user speech profile available anywhere on the network, and automatically synchronizes updates and adaptations centrally.

More Editing Support

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 offers new "out of the box" support for new standard editing controls, which enables complete Dragon functionally, such as "select and say" in many more applications. New supported edit controls include Borland's Tmemo, Tedit & TRichEdit controls as well as TE Edit from Subsystems and TX Text from TX Text Control.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 includes a new indicator that lets you know when you have "Select and Say" functionality available.

Autotranscribe Folder

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 includes an option to create a desktop folder to place digital dictations from a handheld device and have them transcribed automatically, thereby streamlining dictation workflow.

Support for New Wireless Input Devices, Including Bluetooth

With Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9, you can use a Bluetooth microphone as an input device, meaning you are no longer tethered to your PC.

Supporting Your Favourite Applications

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 supports most current releases of Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Word Perfect, AOL and with this release we have added support for Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 includes a new "Voice Notations" feature for Microsoft Word, which allows users to include un-transcribed instructions for third party editors.

Version 9.5 for Vista

Speakeasy Solutions Inc. is pleased to announce Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 9.5, compatible with the Vista OS and Microsoft Office 2007.

This update is only for users of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 9. If you have Version 8 or earlier and require a Vista or Office 2007 compatible version, you will need to upgrade.

FAQ

Do I need Version 9.5?

If you wish compatibility with the Vista OS or Microsoft Office 2007, you will need 9.5.

Can I install Version 9 or previous on a machine with Vista OS?

No. You will need 9.5.

Can I install Version 9.5 on a non Vista OS machine?

You don't need to have Windows Vista installed right now to use this version. You can install it right now under Windows 2000 or Windows XP and upgrade to Windows Vista when you are ready.

How do I install 9.5 if I already have 9 on a non Vista OS machine?

Before you install your software you'll need to remove the current version using the Add or Remove Control Panel under Windows. To retain your activation, ensure that you are properly connected to the internet before uninstalling.

How do I install 9.5 on a Vista OS machine as a new user?

Install from the 9.5 disk (contact Speakeasy Solutions Inc. if you are a client) using the installation codes from the 9 disk.

What are the minimum PC Specifications?

Speakeasy Solutions recommends the following absolute minimum PC desktop hardware requirements for Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 9.x: Pentium IV 2.6 GHz, and 1 GB of RAM (3.0 GHz and 2 GB, if possible, as it will make a difference). Minimum PC notebook requirements should be comparable with respect to speed and power of the above specifications. Notebooks used with speech-recognition should also have a grounded power supply (three prong end).

What is the difference between an Update and an Upgrade?

The update applies to Version 9. Upgrades apply to existing version 7 and 8 users.

How can I order?

Contact us.

PC Hardware Specifications

Speakeasy Solutions recommends the following absolute minimum PC desktop hardware requirements for Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 9:

• Pentium IV 2.6 GHz, and
• 1 GB of RAM.
• NOTE: Pentium IV 3.0 GHz with 2 GB of RAM will improve the software's performance.

Minimum PC notebook requirements should be comparable with respect to speed and power of the above specifications. Notebooks used with speech-recognition should also have a grounded power supply (three prong end).

If you wish, please confer with Dean Husby of Speakeasy Solutions to provide relevant information concerning your existing or intended PC System.

Preferred & Professional Feature Comparison

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Professional, Medical, and Legal have extensive customization and deployment capabilities that enable busy professionals to get more done in less time without changing their workflow.

The following features are available in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional, Medical, and Legal only:

Speakeasy Solutions Speech Commands & Canadian Vocabulary

When you receive a speech-recognition solution package from Speakeasy Solutions, you will be able to take advantage of a series of speech commands that makes using Dragon NaturallySpeaking easier and more efficient. Moreover, Speakeasy Solutions provides a true Canadian vocabulary where words are spelled "colour" and not "color", as well as a series of vocabulary items so that when you say "sub C", "(c)" will be typed out and when you say "sub four", "(iv)" will be typed out.

Multiple Custom Vocabularies

Although all editions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking use the same core engine, the ability to create multiple custom vocabularies in Professional, Medical and Legal can increase accuracy by as much as 5%.

Network Ready

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 makes your user profile available anywhere on the network, via mapped drive, UNC path or http, and automatically synchronizes updates and adaptations centrally.

Citrix Support

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 supports Citrix deployments, giving users access from thin client workstations.

Voice Notations

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 allows users to include special instructions for third-party editors within Microsoft Word.

Network Management

Tools for network management of Dragon NaturallySpeaking users: Manage user profiles, vocabularies and installations of Dragon NaturallySpeaking over a network with a new GUI.

Smart Text & Graphics Shortcuts

Lets you instantly define the variable values in any boilerplate text, or have Dragon NaturallySpeaking prompt you with variable value choices.

Smart Commands

Allows you to change the meaning of a command depending on the location of the cursor.

Macro Recorder

Record and recall your actions by using the Macro Recorder to record a series of mouse movements, clicks, and/or keystrokes and recall the actions using a single voice command

Step-By-Step Commands

Automate routine tasks using step by step scripting to create voice commands one step at a time, even if you are not a programmer.

Speech Enable Applications

Speech enable forms and applications using the Advanced Scripting tool to make forms and applications that can be navigated by voice (or have Speakeasy Solutions create such scripts for you).

Save Speech with Document

Save your dictation in Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, or DragonPad for transcription or correction at a later time.

Lotus Notes

Natural Commands allow you to edit, navigate, and send e-mail more easily in Lotus Notes.

Microsoft Office Natural Commands

Natural Language Commands for Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft InfoPath (Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred has Natural Language Commands for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel).

Import/Export Commands

Commands can be imported and exported between users and versions -- this becomes extremely important when upgrading or creating a new user profile.

Speakeasy Solutions recommends using Professional, Medical or Legal in the following scenarios:

• If there is a need to work in the following programs: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint and Lotus Notes,
• If there is a need to use other software not mentioned above (QuickBooks, Maximizer, ACT! and so forth),
• In instances of restricted upper limb use, (tendinitis, carpal tunnel, repetitive strain injuries and other upper limb limitations) or prevention thereof,
• Needing to dictate in more than one writing style genre (business, programming, fiction, industry specific and so forth) or vocabulary needs to be shared amongst other users,
• The need to export a vocabulary into another "user profile" (a timesaver if using a digital recorder or using profiles across multiple computers),
• A desire/need to automate processes, use templates by speech and create documents more quickly than you presently are,
• The need to deploy and manage Dragon NaturallySpeaking across a multiple user workstation scenario,
• You will be using a digital array or wireless microphone device,
• A need to dictate documents for editing and correcting later with the aid of your original speech,
• There is a desire to use intuitive commands in programs where Speakeasy Solutions has created a special Speech Pack (such as general and improved PC use and with ACT!),
• A desire/need to automate repetitive tasks to save time and alleviate the effects of RSI, and/or
• Drafting of documents that will then be turned over to another individual for editing and final touches -- the draft of the document can be saved with the user's actual voice dictation which will assist in very accurate, if not perfect, document creation.

Open Licensing Program

Software worth talking to, licensing worth talking about

The Open Licensing Program is the most cost-effective way for organizations to easily purchase large volumes of Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech-recognition software. The Open Licensing Program is a point based, tiered discount program. Your initial purchase sets the discount level for 24 months. This means that any time that you purchase additional software over the next two years, you will be eligible for the same discount level.

Benefits

• Reduces the costs to organizations when purchasing volume licenses, software maintenance, and technical support.
• Purchasing made easy -- no contract necessary.
• Receive volume discounts, even on small purchases.
• Allows an organization to budget for purchases of product licenses, software maintenance, and technical support from Speakeasy Solutions.
• Easy to administer and understand, follows industry standard volume license programs.

For more details, call Speakeasy Solutions at 604-264-9109.

Training and Customization

Maximize your investment in Dragon NaturallySpeaking software

Professional training and customization services from Speakeasy Solutions can help you achieve the maximum return on your investment. If you would like to unleash the full potential of Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, please contact Speakeasy Solutions for training, customization, and more.

ScanSoft Applications Solutions Partners (such as Speakeasy Solutions) are the best in the industry -- distinguished by their expertise, experience and commitment to providing top-level services for Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech-recognition products.

What are some of the benefits you can experience with training and customization?

• Increased confidence and motivation from a hands-on session with an experienced instructor.
• Increased productivity through more proficient use of the software.
• Reduced technical support costs -- trained users need less help desk support.
• Increased efficiency through automation of repetitive tasks.
• Streamlined workflow through job analysis and linking with other Windows-based applications.

These are just a sampling of benefits that help you save time and money with Dragon NaturallySpeaking software.

For more details, please contact Speakeasy Solutions at 604-264-9109.

Demonstrations

Book a no obligation demonstration and consultation now. Call Alexandria of Speakeasy Solutions at 604-264-9109.