As a quadriplegic, for me it's quite simple, Dragon NaturallySpeaking is indispensable in my life. Dragon allows me to be a far more productive member of our family and society. Without it, I could not. It is the difference between being productive and being inactive. With Dragon, I am able to do everything an able-bodied person would do with a computer. And in this digital age that's a lot! I pay our family bills on the Internet and track our household expenses on spreadsheets, shop online...
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I have been doing family tree for over 25 years I have purchased version 9. And I love them very much I do not spell very good and it also taught me to speak correctly. I used to slang my words people had to ask me twice what I say so now they don't ask me twice as I speak correctly and then God for the spelling I am 81 years old and my wife is 83. It's sure does help me when I write notes in the family tree. My grandchildren and great-grandchildren comes over and uses this program. So I...
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I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to send Twitter updates through experimental vocal interfaces. With sci-fi movies as inspiration, I tell the computer, "Computer, post an update to twitter saying that I'm posting a contest entry to Nuance". The computer replies, "It's published". I use these interfaces to explore other possibilites such as solving basic math problems, converting measurements, and looking up the weather. Soon, I could be creating dynamic presentations with...
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"A day that will live in infamy!" With these words President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a six and one half minute speech on December 8, 1941 recounted the event of December 7 when the Empire of Japan had launched an attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Station Hawaii. His short, but inspirational talk focused America's anger in a way that would eventually change the world. "Oh my gosh what a pain in the butt is this kid." With these words new mother Ethel Bertha Wampler in a three...
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As a wee little baby, at only 20 months old, I was struck by a car and pinned between the car and the cement curb. I spent several months in a body cast and it seemed initially there would be no long-term problems. As I grew older, I always had pain in my hips and legs. By the time I reached college, I was unable to sit without extreme burning and throbbing pain in my back, hips and legs. To attend college classes I had to stand in the back of the classroom. To do my college class homework, I would...
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For years, I've been accumulating notes with an eye towards writing a book. Scribbling ideas is one thing, while sitting down to the real dirty work has always proved to be quite another. Somehow, writing has always seemed to be more of a task than a pleasure. The thought of it has always made me feel like a schoolboy putting off an assignment. But boy, can I talk. A couple of years ago, the realization that technology might help put me over the hump sent me in search of software. A techie pal...
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We have the Dragon Naturally Speaking ( Word perfect office 2002 ) version. Which is a little old. We got it with a computer we bought in 2002. My wife uses it all the time I had never use it. We have a new computer 98@ Vista that it will not work on . So we don't have it on the new computer. I'm not a typer I'm a 2 finger taper. So it's taking me awhile here now. Well back to story. My wife left to go to her mom's up North for a couple month's vacation. We have about 2000...
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I use Dragon every day, at home and at work, for everything from typing documents and updating spreadsheets, to composing e-mails, managing files, and writing short stories (and working on the great American novel!). I've had to use it instead of typing ever since a spinal injury of over a year ago left me with nerve damage in my right arm, but I know that even after I'm completely healed, I will still use Dragon instead of all the typing and mousing I used to do -- after all, why not? It's...
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I had never thought I would really need to bother with VR software-- after all, I had earned a PhD in English from the University of Iowa and had never needed to compose any essay with voice recognition-- I couldn't even imagien trying to use it to write my 100+ page dissertation! VR was simply a cool idea which would never apply to me Enter, of course, my own personal "dragon"-- in January of this year, I was diagnosed with Relasing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis after almost two years...
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Although I'm entering in the personal category, I also have used Dragon for personal and educational reasons. Just recently, I experienced using Dragon socially for the first time. It made things a lot easier! I am a 46-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, from birth. I have used Dragon since version 3, and I'm now on version 10. I even gave up the Macintosh format that I learned on, because I knew that no voice recognition software that Macintosh had developed was even close to the performance...
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Thanks Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you've literally changed my life. I've actually been using Dragon, Every since 1998. That's When I Learned about Dragon Dictate Classic Edition 3.0. Unfortunately I am a victim of a valid crime. Which took place in the early 90s. I was shot in the neck, which paralyzed me from the neck down. I was a 20 year old college student with a life when it happened. After it happened, I felt like I've done a 360 to no life. I had not one urge to do anything...
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I love my Dragon! I LOVE my Dragon! I wish I had dollar for every time my co-workers heard that phrase. You see, in late April of 2008 I was diagnosed with cancer and although I had almost 5 years of sick time and several weeks of vacation time stored up, by September I had used up most of that time. However, my prognosis was good, the treatments were tapering off and we were coming into a new year, I wasn't worried about needing more time off. Unfortunately, about then I injured my shoulder...
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Prior to using Dragon NaturallySpeaking I would type with two fingers, but with limited strength caused by SMA, a severe lifelong disability, I would fatigue quickly and give up. When I heard about Dragon NaturallySpeaking I thought I would give it a try. That was eight years ago. Today with the help of Dragon NaturallySpeaking I can utilize my computer and the Internet in ways I never imagined. I started blogging and developed a following of friends and Internet acquaintances. I had access to the...
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While I have few typing skills and even less ability to spell, I have, for some time now, wanted to write my autobiography so my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to be, would know a little something about my past, my thoughts and desires, my feelings about life and my great love for the only woman in my life, my wife. For the past several years I have used Dragon, Naturally Speaking, to write e-mail, numerous letters and on occasion, lengthy memos for a business I established shortly...
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When trying to type my autobiography, (Escape from Destiny) with a mouth stick, that is, a piece of wood with rubber tubing on the ends, it was time-consuming, to say the least. It also gave me chapped lips, and a cracking jaw from constantly holding the stick on one side of my mouth. Eventually, computers evolved so I could type on a software keyboard (a picture of a keyboard on the screen) and type by head movements and an air tube I blew into. Somewhat better but, still pretty slow. In about seven...
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Damsels in distress are usually rescued by knights in shining armor, but my hero is a dragon. Dragon Naturally Speaking has enabled me to continue using my computer in spite of a progressive disability. I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) twelve years ago and my disease has slowly taken away my mobility and independence. Because of MS, I can no longer walk, work or stand and my fine motor skills are also affected. Typing has become particularly difficult because I find myself only able to...
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When I was in my pre-teens I was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety disorder. A symptom of this illness is a tendency toward racing thoughts. A way to describe it would be as if your brain were a balloon and your thoughts the water that filled it from a constantly flowing faucet. It would soon feel as if it were going to pop if you didn't find a way of releasing some of the water. A way I found to do this was to begin writing. It felt like whatever I put down on paper or spoke aloud...
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Hi, My name is Leo Benoit and I work at an AT (Assistive Technology) center in New Hampshire. If it were not for Dragon Naturally Speaking I would not be sharing my story with you today. My story begins back in 1986 when I began attending a technical college. My first month there was a trying one because I’ am dyslexic. During that first month I was very anxious and could feel my heart beating out of my chest. At that point I had to decide to calm down and take it easy or I would not be able...
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