"The efficiency factor is huge."
Stuart J. Mitchell III
President and CEO
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Stuart Mitchell was an early adopter of speech recognition software, having first tried it about ten years ago, when it was a "complicated and frustrating experience," he admits. Despite the challenges, Stuart persevered. Recognizing that his typing skills weren't going to improve enough to keep up with the rapidly increasing number of emails and memos, Stuart stuck with an old IBM speech recognition product, hoping that using it would get easier in time. It did.
About seven years ago, CPA John Heveron, President of Heveron & Heveron CPA Firm, introduced him to Dragon Naturally Speaking, which was a major improvement over what Stuart had been using. "My issue is that I'm a poor typist," explains Stuart, "and the advent of email has overwhelmed my old way of handing off dictations to my assistant, necessitating a new system. Speech recognition software "is a wonderfully quick way of resolving my shortcomings," he says.
Dr. John Queenan
Obstetrics & Gynecology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Dr. John Queenan, a skilled surgeon at the University of Rochester Medical Center, combines a proven track record of excellence in research with compassion and understanding in the delivery of patient care.
Dr. Queenan currently types at a rate of 50 words per minute with a 90% accuracy and speaks 118 words per minute with a 96% accuracy. He has been using speech recognition software since 2007 and has more than doubled his productivity and increased his accuracy.
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Can I load Dragon onto my Mac?
Currently there is no version of Dragon that will run on a MacOS. You can however use a program called Parallels, www.parallels.com, MSRP $79.99, which will enable you to load a Windows Operating System on top of your MacOS, but this requires an Intel powered Mac computer.
Now, you will need to own a valid copy of a Windows OS, XP or certain Vista versions, as well if you intend to utilize the product so there will be an additional cost of the Windows Software as well.
Parallels works by creating a "virtual machine" on top of your MacOS. From there, you will load Dragon into your "Virtual Windows Machine" and that is where you will be able to access Dragon. There is a free add-in now for Parallels called SpeakIn that will allow you to dictate into any window you have in focus on your MacOS desktop.
Since Parallels runs Windows on top of your MacOS it would be a good idea to have a high powered Mac. Parallels will configure your available resources to be shared with the Windows OS.
Recommended Specs:
Intel based Mac
2GB RAM+
Parallels v4+
Dragon NaturallySpeaking v9+
Quality USB Headset
Free Add-in "SpeakIn" for Virtual PC
