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I just retired from teaching high school for 39 years. I am also quadriplegic and have used Dragon Naturally Speaking for several years – mostly for personal correspondence and the preparation of lesson plans. I never needed to rely solely on the dictation features and voice commands for mouse...
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I heard about Dragon NaturallySpeaking back when the software was in its ninth edition, and bought it straight away. I was a writer of fan fiction and was just starting on my original work then. Unfortunately, due either to Dragon being less than the product it is today, or my own lack of knowledge about...
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I was injured in 1994, start using Dragon roughly 1995. The first life-changing event was one friend said "it's good to hear you again, you had disappeared from e-mail and the net. The second life-changing event came with the introduction of NaturallySpeaking. At first I had a lot of difficulty...
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I am a 49 year old software development manager and have been in this field for 27 years. Over the past several years, I progressively lost the ability to use my left hand and arm as well as my ability to speak clearly. Unfortunately, now I have also lost the use of my right hand as well. Typing is an...
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Preparing a translation from text is tedious when I have to put pen to paper. It's so much easier using Dragon. I read with my eyes, the translation comes out of my mouth and is immediately typed into my word processor. Dragon enables me to translate much more in much less time -- and no writer's...
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In 1996, I was a recent college graduate with a classical guitar degree that should've paved the way for my future; instead, the degree destroyed it. All that guitar practice caused such severe tendinitis in both arms that I was temporarily crippled. I lost my career, savings, friends, lifestyle...
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Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I've had a love affair with Dragon products since sometime in the mid-1980s. I worked in a research laboratory and had to generate hundreds of pages of documents a week – reports, manuals, white papers etc. I couldn't write or type fast enough to keep...
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I work for Penn State and we are trying to make all our videos accessible. To this end I have been using MovieCaptioner to create the captions, and the way it works is by playing a loop of the video while you type what you hear. When you hit the Return key, it saves the caption, then it goes on to the...
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Back in November of 2005, I was involved in a serious automobile accident that resulted in my left arm being permanently paralyzed. I work in manufacturing as a Chemical Engineer for a major chemical company. I have been working for the same company since 1981. My job involves activities outside in the...
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Saved by a Dragon By Andy Heimer Dragon NaturallySpeaking saved my job and saved my mind. A strong statement? Maybe it's not strong enough. In December of 2010 I was diagnosed with ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. This degenerative motor neuron disease causes its victims to lose voluntary...