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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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In one of the school districts where I worked, I worked in small groups with individuals who needed to pass the speaking portion of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). This can be a very difficult test for non-native English speakers because it not only requires them to speak English in...
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I use Dictate on my iPhone and on my iPad. What is most impressive, is that Dictate lives up to the promise of technology. Technology is supposed to make our lives easier. However, very often people get the latest software and wonder how they will use it. Dictate has been very powerful for me, because...
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A Doorway to Making a Difference A vast part of the early years of my life were extremely challenging. My family life as a child was dysfunctional, destructive and difficult. As I began to grow up, much of the way I conducted myself simply made matters worse. The effect that drugs, alcohol, abuse and...
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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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A year ago I announced to the Shareholders and Upper Management of our Orthopedic Practice that I would be implementing Dragon Medical Voice Recognition Software into our clinics. The current rise in Electronic Health Records was forcing us to take that first BIG step towards the electronic medical...
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Dragon has totally changed my life and I can't imagine where I would be today without it. As a young girl with muscular dystrophy, I always wanted to use the typewriter, like my mom did. I didn't have use of my fingers, so my dad took pencils and taped them to my hands so that I could push the...
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My name is Patricia Tate and I am the administrator of a skilled nursing residence for medically fragile children in Yakima, Washington, and we provide 24/7 medical care in a nurturing home-like setting . Veronica, one of our children, went skipping to school one day with her sisters, and woke up several...
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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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For those with on-going projects, almost any type, you can make your work more productive, creative and FUN using Dragon… Virtually Anywhere… My work consists of consulting projects and book projects with many of these common documents: · e-mails · PowerPoint presentations...