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I am a classically trained pianist and an attorney. In 1999, I developed tendinitis in both arms after returning to playing the piano after a gap of many months. This affected my ability to use the computer. At the time, I was a captain in the Air Force and worked in the legal office. I spent many hours...
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How has Dragon changed the career of a student on the path to a professional degree? Well, this is my story; the story of a court reporting student. Long ago accurate transcripts were engraved on stone. As time moved along, so did our creative engineering and invention of tools to inscribe the voice...
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I speak Dragon because it is the best age-defying software I have found for a fifty something-year-old! I work with a group of young, incredibly bright folk who can e-mail and IM at the speed of light. When I started working with them they would send me an instant message and I would reply using the...
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I have been using Dragon naturally speaking for the past four years-both on my desktop and laptop. Now with the iPhone I also use it for e-mails and texts. My story begins years ago when I was in college. I always had extreme "writer's block". In law school a professor suggested that I...
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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 My story begins back in the 1990s, when after a long day seeing patients at the office and then having to write chart notes for an 1 hour and a half, that I returned home exhausted. I switched on the television only to find Captain Kirk of the Star...
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Twenty-five years ago, Sr. Catherine gave me a “B+” in typing class. Undoubtedly, Sister was being generous; I was never that good a typist. Unlike Sr. Catherine's typing class, keyboarding in real life involves thinking AND typing—simultaneously; a dangerous combination for all...
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I attended an all boys Orthodox Jewish high school in the 1950s. Typing was considered a skill for girls who became secretaries. My first job was in the Patent Office in the early 1960s and we wrote letters by hand which were typed by a secretary. In my next job for the Navy, I was given a dictating...
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Linda Robertson Approx. 388 Words 959 Harvard © June 2, 2011 Clovis CA 93612 (559)298-8772 pzazz959@sbcglobal.net I SPEAK DRAGON! Almost every time I work on my computer, I speak Dragon, following him into the cavernous reaches of my mind. He leads me in, always protective of every word I speak...
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12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 74 years ago (at the age of 12 days), I was ‘inconvenienced’ by the onset of polio which attacked the muscles in my neck, both arms and shoulders, stomach, back, and both legs, all of which necessitated my having...
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I began using Dragon Naturally Speaking in about 1998, learning it so I could teach the attorneys how to use it. Although we had some technical issues with equipment, we managed to make it work. In 2005, I was doing so much work analyzing and preparing summaries of medical records, discovery documents...