Description Price Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred 9.0 $199

Dragon NaturallySpeaking^® Preferred enables small business and advanced PC users to create documents, spreadsheets, and e-mail—all by speaking! Talk to your computer and your words instantly and accurately appear in Microsoft^® Word and Excel^®, Corel^® WordPerfect^®, and virtually all Windows^®-based applications. Listen to incoming e-mail and documents read aloud. Search the Web by speaking URLs and links. Use dictation shortcuts that enable you to insert blocks of texts or bitmaps—such as your name, title, and signature—with a single voice command. Dictate directly into a PC or any Nuance-approved handheld digital recorder.  A noise canceling microphone is included.

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Minimum System Requirements

• Intel^® Pentium^® 4 / 1 GHz processor (or equivalent AMD^® processor)

• 512 MB RAM (1 GB Recomended)

• 1 GB free hard disk space

• Microsoft^® Windows^® Vista (32-bit versions only - not 64-bit), XP (SP1 or higher) Home and Professional, 2000 (SP4 or higher)

• Creative^® Sound Blaster^® 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording

• Microsoft^® Internet Explorer 5 or higher (free download available at www.microsoft.com)

• CD-ROM drive (required for installation)

• Speakers required for playback of recorded speech and text to speech features

• Nuance-approved noise-canceling headset microphone (included)

• A Web connection is required for activation