Dragon Naturallyspeaking Home Edition 11 £53.99 from Amazon

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dragon-NaturallySpeaking-11-Home-PC/dp/B003ULO25K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1284659163&sr=8-1

For those of you who tended to hit the reply button before spell checking, this may be for you

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Home speech recognition software lets you interact with your PC just by talking! From improved accuracy and faster performance, to an intuitive user interface with a rich Help system, powerful new voice commands, and an enhanced correction and adaptation process, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 has been redesigned to be FASTER, BETTER and SMARTER.
The Dragon user interface now offers better usability, and includes a new Sidebar showing tips as well as many commands. It’s now easier to discover, remember, and access important Dragon features and options. New Recognition Analytics continuously monitor audio quality and alert users when there is an audio issue, to help them achieve their best accuracy. More than ever, Dragon 11 enables users to focus on their thoughts and ideas rather than the mouse, keyboard or computer screen.

Dragon 11 is more accurate out of the box than version 10, and uses state-of-the-art technology. Thanks to improvements at various levels, corrections are faster to make, and quickly become less necessary. Version 11 “learns” better than any previous version, including from existing documents and dictations as well as from corrections made via the keyboard. Dragon 11 responds faster to voice commands and also introduces new time-saving commands that consolidate multiple mouse clicks and keystrokes. It’s faster and easier to open applications, get to a particular window, move within a window, send e-mail, create appointments, search the Web, and more – all by voice. So now users can get even more done faster on their computers.

It understands what you say and how you say it. Simply speak words and they appear on the screen — three times faster than typing — with no typos. Tell your PC what to do and it does it. Use Dragon Use your favorite applications to dictate reports, send email, surf the Web, download music, update Facebook, and more. For everything you do at home or school, there’s no easier or more enjoyable way to get more done faster. Once you start using Dragon, you’ll wonder how you managed without it.

jazzconfused

im not good with computer nor a tech person, i could not even maximise the use of my laptop.. but i wonder if this will help me when i do essays especially as i got a jumping keypad.

paolo

Pay someone to type for you. These things are pretty useless - tried both Mac and PC versions then gave up.

Jolly_Roger

As a working journalist, I already use an older version of Dragon. It was slow and irritating at first, but if you are not a great typist or are having to write something that's not very interesting, voice-to-text software really speeds things up.
I was able to double my productivity on some tasks using Dragon (and earn more money!), but you do need to persevere!
This is a good price, you would normally pay in excess of £100 for software like this.

Nilrem

That's a good price.

I tried Dragon 8 or 9 I think (and IBM, and another one before that) a while back, which was pretty good once you trained it, but required a fairly meaty PC at the time.

The big downside is, that if you're doing it in a room/near others it can pick up a bit of background noise and you look like a twit:p (or at least feel like one).
You also need a reasonable quality mic