Dragon Naturally Speaking 13 Home For PC ESD

Recognition accuracy

Turns your voice into text with up to 99% accuracy

New – Up to a 15% improvement to out-of-the-box accuracy compared to Dragon version 12

Recognition speed

Words appear on the screen three times faster than typing.

System configuration

Installation automatically detects available PC resources (CPU, Processor Cache, RAM) and configures system for optimal use.  Enhanced – On powerful PCs with multi-core processors, Dragon 13 automatically selects its latest and greatest speech model for best performance

Accuracy tuning

“Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer;” ability to analyse sent email and selected text documents; “Nothing But Speech” filter to automatically eliminate um/ah utterances.

NEW! “Learn from Sent Email” now also works with web-based email such as Gmail® and Yahoo! Mail®, so you have more potential sources from which to let Dragon familiarize itself with the words and phrases you might write.  You can launch the analysis of documents and emails at any time

Help system and tutorials

Comprehensive Help System includes searchable Help Topics, resizable Learning Center and Interactive Tutorial.

NEW! Redesigned and augmented Interactive Tutorial has short progressive simulations that introduce the DragonBar, the Learning Center, the Vocabulary Editor, as well as basic web navigation and use of web-based email.

Editing and formatting text

Format text; “Direct Editing” commands (commands to delete/ bold/underline/italicize/capitalise/copy/cut the specified words). Smart Format Rules allow Dragon to adapt upon detecting formatting changes to abbreviations, numbers and more.

Enhanced – Dragon now generates more hints for alternate word written forms, to make it even quicker and easier to make a change

Dictation box

Ability to create, modify, and correct text within text fields where Dragon does not have Full Text Control including option to automatically open the Dictation Box where there is no Full Text Control.

Command and control

Click/move/drag/position the mouse by voice; press keys or key combinations by voice.

Application support – web browsers

NEW! The Dragon Web extension now gives Full Text Control in Chrome® and Firefox® as well as Internet Explorer, in compatible websites. In order to use Dragon in the supported browsers, you must enable this add-on.

Internet Explorer® 9 and up, Chrome and Firefox: Dictation and Full Text Control in compatible web edit fields. Command and control for all standard web controls, links and buttons, including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, iCloud and more.

For the latest on supported web browsers, please visit support.nuance.com (Note: there are differences among browsers in terms of Full Text Control and command capabilities)

Application support – web mail

NEW! Dragon 13 supports Full Text Control and Command and Control, including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Outlook®.com within Internet Explorer®, Firefox and Chrome. In order to use Dragon in these browsers, you must enable the add-on.

Application support – local email

Outlook 2010 and 2013 (32- and 64-bit): Full Text Control, Menu Tracking, and Natural Language Commands.

Application support – word processing

– Word 2010 and 2013 (32- and 64-bit); NotePad; WordPad, Windows 7 and 8; and DragonPad (word processor included in Dragon): Full Text Control, Menu Tracking, and Natural Language Commands

– OpenOffice® Writer 4.1 (ApacheTM): Full Text Control

– WordPerfect® X6 and X7 (English and French only): Full Text Control, Menu Tracking, and English Natural Language Commands

Dragon Voice Shortcuts for web search, desktop search and Dragon Help search

Dragon Voice Shortcuts collapse common multi-step tasks into direct voice commands. Search the web for information, products, and more, e.g. “Search news for keywords” or “Search Google® for 57 divided by 3.” “Open top site for keywords” command directly opens the top ranked page for keywords.

Dragon Voice Shortcuts for email

Send emails, schedule appointments or create tasks, e.g. “Create an email about…”

Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Facebook and Twitter

Quickly update social status with commands, e.g. “post to Facebook…” (does not open the site).

Text to Speech

A synthesized voice reads out loud editable text you designate.

Multiple sources per profile

Ability to create multiple audio sources (more than one type of audio input device) sharing a vocabulary within the same profile.

Mobile dictation

Allows transcription of recordings spoken by one person.

Built-in microphone support

NEW! Dragon 13 now supports microphones built into many of the latest laptops for optimal flexibility and convenience. You’re now free to dictate documents and speak commands directly into your laptop without using a headset.

Dragon 13 also automatically detects which microphones are available to you. You simply pick the recommended device you want to use.

Wireless dictation – Bluetooth®

Work untethered from your computer using supported Bluetooth microphones

New – Accuracy in Dragon 13 is enhanced when using a Nuance certified wideband (16 kHz) Bluetooth headset.

Wireless dictation – Dragon remote mic app

Dictate wirelessly with a mobile device: the free Dragon Remote Mic app works with iPhone®, iPod® touch (4th gen), iPad® or compatible Android® device.