SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
The install process checks that your system meets the minimum requirements; if they are not met, Dragon NaturallySpeaking will not be installed.
- CPU: Intel Pentium4 or later or AMD Athlon 64 1 GHz minimum. We recommend 2.4 GHz (1.6 GHz dual core) or equivalent AMD processor. (Note: SSE2 instruction set required.)
- RAM: minimum 512 MB (1 GB for Windows Vista, and 2 GB for Windows 7). We recommend 1 GB (2 GB for Windows 7 32-bit, and 4 GB for Windows 7 64-bit)
- Free hard disk space: 1 GB (2 GB for localized non-English versions)
- L2 Cache: minimum 512 KB. We recommend 1 MB.
- Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows Server 2000
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows 2000 SP4
- Windows XP SP2 and SP3, 32-bit
- Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, 32-bit and 64-bit
- Windows 7, 32-bit and 64-bit
- DVD-ROM drive required for installation
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 or higher (free download at www.microsoft.com)
- Creative® Labs Sound Blaster® 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording
- Nuance-approved noise-canceling headset microphone (included in purchase, except for upgrades). See details at support.nuance.com/compatibility/ (includes Bluetooth microphones, recorders, and Tablet PCs).
Note: A Web connection is required for activation (a quick anonymous process)
* Dragon Standard, Dragon Preferred, Dragon Professional, and Dragon Legal do not support dictation directly into Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems. For EMR support, please use Dragon Medical Edition.
INSTALLATION
The installation is very simple and is very quick. For those of you who are interested (Dave!) here are the installation screenshots:
During the installation process, the software asked me to close down Outlook, which I did.
And that was it!
PRODUCT ACTIVATION
You need to activate the product in order to use it – although you have 5 goes on the software before it will stop working.
Activating it simple and quick, and I didn’t have any problems at all.
There are training documents and videos available at http://www.tinyurl.com/dragondocs and http://www.tinyurl.com/dragontraining. As a declaration of openness, I'm the Technical Manager for Nuance in the UK, and I write for http://www.mswhs.com as well.
thanks Gary
I'll check those out was well.
I've read some of your articles on Phil's site.
Andrew
I use the built-in Windows 7 Speech Recognition with my webcam microphone. I like the ease of use as long as it is quiet in the office! This product seems like a good alternative for people who want advanced speech capabilities.
thanks Tim 🙂
One thing I havent mentioned in this review is that the headset has a noise cancelling microphone and also the software during the training phase listens to your background noise and attempts to filter it, and so far it has worked!
Andrew
can it be installed onto whs so it can be networked?
Todd
I havent tried that yet, but I will add it to my list.
My guess is that it wouldnt work because of the licence requirement on the PC where the software is loaded, but let me see what I can find out.
Also, the headset needs to be connected to the machine where the software is.
Again, I will dig deeper 🙂
Andrew