Dragon Systems/Vendor/User Comments

***************************************
From: Peter Cohen
To: voice-users
Subject: Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Date: Friday, April 04, 1997 7:43PM

Hi.

I went to Dragon today thinking that I'd see something good but I wasn't
prepared for what I saw from NaturallySpeaking (NS) for the 1st time.
It is UNBELIEVABLE.  BLEW me away.  I'm not kidding and this is no
marketing hype.  Those of you who know me know I'm pretty low-key on
this list but NS Personal Edition is AWESOME!  It IS a large general
vocabulary, true CONTINUOUS speech system.

Now, it is very different than DD.  You can't control the WIN
environment.  There is macro language but it is limited to 128 printable
chars. (i.e. no ctrl or alt or Fs) It strictly is a dictation tool into
its own word processor.  You can then cut and paste it to your other
applications.

Many of the users on this list use DDWIN to control Windows and switch
between and dictate to a lot of apps during the day.  NS Personal can't
do that.  Maybe someday there will be NS versions that include that and
more sophisticated capabilities.

BTW. the question was asked about having DDWIN and NS loaded at the same
time.  You can't.

Upgrade prices are tentatively set at $395 for users below DDWIN 2.5 and
$295 for those above.

The Dragon Team will be getting a lot of good "Press" over this product
and they deserve it.

 --
Celebrating 6 years of providing DragonDictate

Peter Cohen
Peter Cohen Associates
Premier DragonDictate Resellers
508-655-7711;pcohen@pc-associates.com
http://www.pc-associates.com

*****************************************
From: Joel Gould
To: voice-users@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Subject: Answers to questions about Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Date: Monday, April 07, 1997 5:16AM

With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Personal Edition, you dictate directly into
the NaturallySpeaking editor window.  You then can cut and paste using
the clipboard (by voice if you want) to other applications.

> will d/ns run on nt?

Dragon NaturallySpeaking will run on both Windows NT 3.51 and
Windows NT 4.00 as well as Windows 95.

> will the full ("ga") product support both the continual speech *and* the
> existing dragon dictate command/control/macro capabilities?

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Personal Edition includes a fixed set of
command and control capabilities.  The built-in command and control is
very similar to the types of macros which are built into DragonDictate for
Windows. It does not include user programmable macros like
DragonDictate.

> From Rose
> Since it's true 32 bit will it run faster on a Pentium Pro 200
> than on a Pentium 166?  (Dragon Classic and all 16 bit programs
> actually run slower on the Pentium Pro than on the Pentium 166.

I believe that Dragon NaturallySpeaking will run faster on a Pentium Pro
200 than on a Pentium 166.

> Would the MMX chip be the best environment for it?

Dragon NaturallySpeaking does run somewhat faster using the MMX
chip; however, the initial version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking does not
currently contain any MMX-specific instructions.

> Undertand there initially will be no command and control - must
> work in a text editor - can voice macros still be written for for it?
> DDEs?

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Personal Edition does include some command
and control capabilities; however, it does not support user programmable
macros.  Dragon NaturallySpeaking does support what we call "dictation
shorthands" which are text-only macros.

> Assuming that it works by dictating, then block copy|open
> application|pasting - will it allow the user to create a
> voice macro to do this?

With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Personal Edition users cannot create a
voice macro to do the cut and paste operation.  However, Dragon
NaturallySpeaking does include some built-in commands for this.

Joel Gould
Dragon Systems

This document was generated by voice using Dragon
NaturallySpeaking#

*****************************************