Deal Alert – Dragon Naturally Speaking

Something I have seen a lot about and always wanted to try was dictation and voice recognition software. Today I found a great deal on Dragon Naturally Speaking Standard 10.0 over at Buy.com. In case you don’t know about Dragon Naturally Speaking, here it is in a nutsell. Let’s say you have a lot of information you need to type. You’d speak into the microphone and what you said would be converted into text on your computer in front of you. It’s about three times faster than typing the information in yourself. You can use it in most popular applications as well as to move around in your computer and when browsing the internet. It will even format some of the data for you!

I was fully prepared to purchase this until I checked the system requirements. Unfortunately for me, my computer won’t run it because it has an old non-Intel processor. Boy do I need a new computer! Anyway. To run this software you need a computer with an Intel Pentium 1 GHz or AMD processor running Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (32 bit), Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (32-bit). The computer needs to have 512mb of memory (1gb for Vista), 1gb (2gb for localized non-English versions) free on the hard drive, a DVD-rom drive and a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording . The package comes with the Dragon NaturallySpeaking v.10.0 Standard software and a Noise-canceling headset microphone.

Dragon Naturally Speaking is on sale for $39.99! That’s a 62% discount from its usual $99.99 price, plus it’s eligible for free shipping. At that price you can’t go wrong!

Tags: Buy.com, dictation, Dragon Naturally Speaking

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