Norton 360 v5.0--only £24.97 when you spend £30 or more
Save ££s on Norton 360 v5.0 - 1 User 3 PC--only £24.97 when you spend £30 or more on items sold by Amazon.co.uk. Here's how (terms and conditions apply). *Offer ends 23:59 GMT on 29 February (originally due to end at 23:59 GMT on 31st December 2011 and then extended to end at 23:59 GMT on 31st January 2012)
System Requirements
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / 95
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- Create text by speaking aloud
- Intuitive command recognition
- Revise text with the Select-and-Say feature
- Launch software programs by voice
- Send and manage e-mail by voice
- Revise, edit & format text
- Dictation shortcuts
- Manage E-mail
- Customise vocabulary
- Play back dictation and hear text read aloud
- Quick correct list
Product details
|
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Voice recognition software often conjures up images of Star Trek or 2001: A Space Odyssey, where characters hold in-depth conversations and accomplish great tasks with their computers. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5.0 takes talking to your computer out of those science fiction movies and into the world of everyday use. While recent versions of speech-to-text software have resulted in mistake-ridden documents and overpriced products, NaturallySpeaking 5.0 offers the ability to create well-written and edited documents, send e-mail and surf the web.
In addition to better accuracy, other improvements include the "training period" and vocabularies for teen, adult and advanced users. After choosing the applicable vocabulary, this training period gives the computer time to get to know your voice patterns. Instead of running through a 45-minute training session (found in the 4.0 version of this product), 5.0 thankfully only requires up to 10 minutes of preparation. The program even offers dictation pointers for those of us with poor enunciation.
One obvious advantage to voice recognition technology is that your hands are free to hold the telephone or twirl your hair while you dictate. For example, this review was actually written with the program and not with the keyboard--a feat previously impossible. The only problem was found when loud noises occurred during use (make sure to keep your kids or noisy officemates out of the room).
While NaturallySpeaking 5.0 is not perfect, it is a vast improvement over earlier versions as well as its competitors. So while you can't tell your computer to take out the trash, you can have it write your documents hands-free. Now if they would only invent the transporter. --Madeleine J. Miller
Manufacturer's Description
Award-winning, large vocabulary, general purpose, continuous speech dictation package for the PC. Works directly in Word 97/2000, Word Perfect 8/9, Outlook. Allows you to browse Internet Explorer by voice. Multi-user. Includes Text to Speech
Write business letters, e-mail and reports by voice: Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred 5 is a full-featured, highly accurate, easy-to-use speech recognition product focused on creating and editing text documents, reports and e-mails for small office and home office users.
Dictate with improved accuracy: Version 5 continues to improve accuracy. From a company already recognised for its high recognition accuracy. Make corrections faster and easier with the new, convenient
Quick Correct Box: Learn with a hands-on tutorial that leads through basic dictation techniques.
Manage your e-mail: Dictate into popular e-mail programs, use voice commands to send and manage your mail.
Use Dragon Naturally Speaking commands with your favourite programs: whenever you see the DragonBar, dictate into any application and use many Dragon Naturally Speaking commands. Add terminology quickly with the new "Add Words from Document" feature
Get started promptly: All machines that meet the minimum system requirements of the software now learn your voice in under five minutes. Advanced Features:Listen to your work. Hear any text, such as incoming e-mail, read aloud with text-to-speech. Proof-read with dictation playback. Play back what you say, to help your editing. Enter commonly used text. Create dictation shortcuts to insert multiple lines of text, such as a letter closing, with only a few words. Work with portable recording devices. Transcribe your words directly into documents from approved recorders (sold separately).
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
55 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Your own personal typist,
By Mr. B. Trotter "The Nightfly" (Broughton Gate, Buckinghamshire) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Naturally Speaking Preferred 5 (CD-ROM)
What better way to write a review of the product than by using the product itself. I loaded the software on my machine a little more than one hour ago, and here I am now using the software to write this review. The installation is simple and painless the documentation supplied is excellent, and the hardware e.g. the headset is also more than adequate, although I think most people would probably not require the earpiece but only the microphone, and I tend to have the earpiece away from my ear. It is quite a few years since the first voice recognition software appeared on the market, and I was one of the first to buy, being a slow typist. Generally speaking most of the first generation of VR software was rather poor, that certainly can't be said of this particular product, it's quite amazing how quickly and easily it translates your speech into text. With training I believe it can achieve speeds of up to 40 words a minute, which is about 38 words a minute more than I can type, so that will do for me.Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred makes it easy to edit and format text-even change fonts, colors, and sizes-by voice! Insert phrases and paragraphs with only a few words. Listen to text and e-mail read aloud by replaying your recorded speech. You can even browse the Web-hands-free. It comes with a 250,000 word total vocabulary and has the ability to learn new words of course, ypu can also launch programs by voice and switch between applications just by saying so So, for any aspiring authors who can't type, or Web designers who would rather dictate their text into their pages rather than type, this package is just what you want. The ability to be able to review, edit and correct your work his also very, very good. All in all I would give this product of a big Thumbs up,it really does appear that this can offer the typist a the box, and I suppose you could get the box to sit on your knee if you so wished. I am sure that after more training, and further use, the programme will just get better and better and I have no hesitation in recommending this as an excellent buy for anyone in the market for this type of product.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, but you'll need a powerful machine,
By Michael Browning (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Naturally Speaking Preferred 5 (CD-ROM)
I tried installing this on a 450mhz PC and it was completely unusable. But I've now got a 1.5ghz machine, and Naturally Speaking runs like a dream. Its voice recognition is really good, though it needs a lot of training (which is only to be expected), and its ability to capture commands for formatting, menu control, etc, is first class. Definitely recommended, but make sure you've got a powerful machine!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
I didn't get on with this at all.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Naturally Speaking Preferred 5 (CD-ROM)
I'm sorry the program is good and yes its fun to play with. But if someone hadn't bought this for me I really wouldn't have purchased it. I've read the voice recognition training section to it four times and it still doesn't write properly. I'm dyslexic and I realise that when I get this programme to work properly, I may finally benefit from it.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
