Normal 0 It was a rainy Tuesday morning. I was about forty minutes into a two and a half hour drive to a meeting when I received a text message reminding me quarterly reports were due by 9:00am. It was 8:10am. I had a meeting at 10:30am. To get this done I needed to pull over at the next exit or hopefully a rest area (with a bathroom due to my incessant need for coffee and its consequences) turn on my laptop, type the report, email it to the Divisional VP for approval, haggle over interpretation...
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Dear Dragon, I am currently a Resident in Pathology, and my program brought Dragon Medical edition 9.0 on board during the past year. Even after several months, I am still simply amazed at the accuracy with which Dragon Medical 9.0 can recognize and use the complex vocabulary of the specialty of Pathology. In the time I've used it, Dragon Medical has also greatly increased the efficiency of my workflow. In a specialty where verbal precision is key, Dragon Medical 9.0 adds speed and accuracy to...
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As a professional project and program manager, I spend a significant amount of time managing communications -- at least 50% of my time and as much as 80 % of my time. This starts with leading meetings, facilitating group discussions and reporting on progress and status to a wide variety of stakeholders. (Stakeholders are defined as any one or any group having an interest in the outcome or results of the project. So, stakeholders can come from any department in the organization -- from IT, finance...
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Convincing a large group of multi-specialty physicians to adopt an electronic medical record was no easy task. To further complicate the issue, we asked them to adopt two different systems. Dragon has been an integral part of the successful implementation. Clarian Arnett Health, based out of Lafayette, Indiana is an integrated health care system designed to treat patients across the continuum of care. Established in 1922, Clarian Arnett brought many firsts to the Lafayette community. And in recent...
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In 2003, after years of struggle trying to break into the entertainment industry as a screenwriter, I was invited to pitch original story ideas to the head writer of Law and Order , an extremely talented and generous man named Michael S Chernuchin. I traveled to Universal Studios in Hollywood, sat across from Michael in his plush office on the studio lot, and proceeded to sell the first story we discussed, an episode that aired in prime time the following year, entitled "Vendetta". What...
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I have spoken Dragon for almost 4 years, but it's only been in the last year that I've started speaking Command Browser. Thanks to my growing fluency in Command Browser, I have become much more efficient and accurate in many routine tasks. For example, I have created commands for many of the URLs that I use frequently in written communications and in my personal and professional use of the web. Now I just say "Insert homepage” in the text of messages to clients instead of having...
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I am the Executive Director of a nonprofit organization, The Caring Place. The Caring Place provides services and safe shelter for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. When I took the position 10 years ago typing was more than a major ordeal. My organization is dependent on state and federal grants.My practical daughter bought me my first Dragon NaturallySpeaking ,version 8 ,about nine years ago for Christmas. I have since progressed to version 9. Not only have I been more successful...
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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "Immunohistochemistry of spinal cord parenchyma with acute central hemorrhagic necrosis showed infiltration of neutrophils and erythrocytes” or “histological specimens were fixed with 6% paraformaldehyde, 0.5% glutaraldehyde in a phosphate buffer.” These are the kinds of phrases that I regularly use in grants and scientific publications as a research scientist. To my surprise, all those words were already included in the...
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I have been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking since 2002. As an attorney, it has been an invaluable tool for writing briefs, arguments and various correspondence. Recently I have been assigned to a task requiring hours of tedious data and text entry into a program that generates a legal document for filing. I have made extensive use of DNS to more efficiently complete this task, often without the use of the keyboard at all. I have been going on an annual ski trip for the last 15 years, as a break from...
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I love Dragon Naturally Speaking. I started developing symptoms of carpal tunnel because I was always on my keyboard typing away. I now use Dragon NaturallySpeaking basically for everything. I wish there was a way to give your dragon a treat when it understands long and complex words . I have used Dragon NaturallySpeaking in chat rooms , instant messengers,I even use it to write my book! I even use it to do some programming. I hope someday everyone will use this great program.
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I am a physician in private practice and have been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking software to dictate all of my notes for several years now. Being able to dictate my notes rather than handwrite them allowed me to become much more efficient in my practice. It takes me much less time to generate a patient encounter note, thus letting me spend more time with each patient to address their needs. Furthermore, it allows me to create very complete notes, and it actually increased reimbursements from health...
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A college disability service provider is responsible to provide accommodations to college students in their classes. In a remote area on an outer island it is difficult to access high technology. Dragon was used to accommodate Deaf students who had not yet learned sign language. Using a laptop and a sound muffled mask, along with Nuance Dragon software, the students were able to have all oral communications repeated by a person who we call `Dragon Master`, sitting next to them, therefore creating...
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A dragon and snowboarding are an unlikely pairing. But one fall too many on a snowboard left me with a ruptured disk and numbness in my left hand. So I turned to Dragon Naturally Speaking. And although the numbness passed in time, the Dragon stayed with me. Attorneys, like all professionals today, must work efficiently. Dragon not only saves time on word processing, it can be used in literally every program that requires typing. Which, let’s face it, is every single program.
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In 1985, at the age of sixteen, I was struck by an automobile while riding my bicycle, leaving me paralyzed from the neck down -- a quadriplegic. Not being able to use my arms, I graduated high school using a computer by pushing keys on a keyboard with a mouth stick. Then, just in time for college, I was introduced to the world of voice recognition. It was called DragonDictate. Remarkably, this new software allowed me to speak to my computer and see the words appear on the screen. I thought that...
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In 2000, I’d a dream I thought I couldn’t fulfill. In 1961, I was told by an English Department that I’d a talent for writing fiction -- and should switch majors – from engineering. But, I was a sophomore near the top of my class, and told them, "Thanks, but no thanks.” Later, I took a Masters from Yale in industrial management, and began a career in engineering, shipbuilding, banking, insurance. Retiring at 60, I decided to write a novel -- inspired by Col. Sanders...
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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This problem is presented to challenge you. If Vehicle A, with a mass equaling 2200 lbs, enters an intersection going east at a speed of 35 mph, and Vehicle B, with mass equaling 3000 lbs traveling 25 mph turns directly into the path of Vehicle A, how much writing will the driver of Vehicle A be able to accomplish after the collision? On November 6, 2003, I went out to the store for some unnecessary snacks. On my way back, just two blocks from...
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In 2003, during my third year of medical school, I fell 3 stories while trying to help a neighbor. I suffered a cervical spinal cord injury making me a quadriplegic. When I was in rehab, one of the doctors I worked with in medical school bought me Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I began to use it during rehabilitation, but I realized its full potential when I went back to school. I was able to anything on the computer that I used to be able to do without the use of my hands. I used Dragon NaturallySpeaking...
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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 As a Professional Storyteller, I am at the mercy of my muse. My world is overflowing with a myriad of ideas - scribbled on scraps, nestled on napkins and jotted on just about anything. Your Dragon Naturally Speaking was a gift from my long-suffering spouse and gave birth to the following recitation ... When my desk, piled with notes, is a-saggin', From my typing-skills, woefully laggin'. Your "computer-recorder", Brings my CHAOS...
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I am an older graduate student who left computer programming to get my doctorate in philosophy. I credit my having Dragon Naturally Speaking for allowing me to pass my qualification exams with what my school, the University of Texas at Dallas, calls “High Pass,” which is the highest rank available and rarely given. The reason I credit Dragon Preferred Naturally Speaking with making this possible is the short time frame I was allowed to gather my material. Instead of waiting until the...
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This may be a Professional story. It may be Educational. And it's definitely Personal. So I'll let you decide into which category it fits. I'm a pastor. That's my profession. But, it also means I teach. And being a pastor means that I interact with folk in a very personal way. As a church, we make considerable use of the Internet. Our website reaches people from all corners of the globe and we encourage them to let us know they're listening, reading, and learning. For a relatively...
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