Five winning stories will be selected by a panel of judges, and the winning entrants will each receive an Amazon Kindle 2 as well as Dragon NaturallySpeaking upgrades for three years.
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"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 vocabulary of Dragon’s NaturallySpeaking Professional. Microsoft Word doesn't even have most of these words in their spellchecking dictionary! Although adding new words into Dragon is a snap, it’s nice to be so well accommodated.
In fact, accommodation is what Dragon does best. They have put a lot of thought in fulfilling the needs of their myriad users, even quadriplegic, assistant research professors. My days of typing large manuscripts with a pointer are over! Although, as a neurobiologist I study spinal cord injury, most of my time isn't in the lab using a microscope or mixing chemical solutions. An inordinate amount of my time is spent e-mailing colleagues, publishing our research findings, and writing grants to fund future experiments. What I didn’t spend a lot of time on, was setting up or learning how to use Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional. I was able to start dictating right after installing the software. Now I can spend less time typing and more time on writing – and with a hands-free array microphone, I have total freedom too. Thank you Dragon!