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Dragon NaturallySpeaking Premium 11.5 (Student/Teacher) (Win)
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Dragon Naturally Speaking Premium 11.5 (Student/Teacher) with FREE Noise-Cancelling Headset/Microphone
Nuance requires that upon receiving your software, you will be asked to contact the third-party academic verification organization, Identit-E, in order to complete your registration.
Accessibility and Productivity Tools for Students and Teachers!
Dragon speech recognition software is helping to enhance the educational process for students and teachers alike. It has been shown to improve core reading and writing skills for students of all abilities, including those with physical or language-based learning disabilities as well as English Language Learners.
Dragon lets students dictate papers and assignments three times faster than typing — with up to 99% accuracy. It also lets them control their computer desktop and applications by voice to get more done faster — whether they’re sending email, taking notes, doing research on the Web, or creating a presentation. Dragon is widely used in secondary business education and computer applications courses to familiarize students with emerging interfaces.
Plus, many teachers rely on the software as a productivity tool to help them manage their overwhelming administrative workload. With all these advantages, it’s no wonder that Dragon is being used in more and more elementary, secondary, and post-secondary school today—with great results.
Opening Up New Opportunities to the Academic Setting
- Improves core reading and rewriting skills for students of all abilities
- Helps students with language-based learning disabilities more easily express themselves in writing
- Provides accessibility for teachers and students with physical disabilities that hamper typing
- Bridges English Language Learners’ oral and written communication skills
- Prepares students to use emerging interfaces in the 21st workforce
- Enables teachers to prepare more detailed assessments of student work through dictation
Details:
For Students of All Abilities
Dragon has been shown to improve reading and writing skills for students of all abilities. Dictation requires students to read aloud, a practice that not only increases oral reading efficiency, but can drive improvements in word recognition and pronunciation as well as reading fluency and comprehension. Since reading aloud is not widely practiced as students progress to middle and high school, Dragon provides a great way to keep students’ oral reading skills sharp.
Many teachers are also using Dragon to help reinforce composition skills based on the "Six Traits of Writing.” Students brainstorm their ideas/content, organize their thoughts, determine their purpose/voice, develop their sentence structure, and apply overall writing mechanics by composing with their voice instead of paper and pencil or a keyboard. For many students, this approach yields better composition, improved grammar skills and expanded use of vocabulary.
Though it’s not specifically designed to automatically transcribe any lecture by any teacher, Dragon speech recognition can be used as a transcription solution by students and teachers that need to capture lecture content in writing.
For Physically Challenged Students
Students with physical disabilities, especially those who do not have use of their hands for keyboarding, use Dragon for accessibility purposes. It provides greater independence, eliminates the need for a dictation buddy, and helps these students keep pace with their non-disabled peers. Dragon’s also a great solution for students suffering from repetitive stress injuries, like carpel tunnel syndrome, that make keyboarding painful, if not impossible. It can also help prevent RSIs in the first place.
For Students with Learning Disabilities
Students with certain learning disabilities, especially those with language-based learning disabilities like dyslexia and working memory issues, use Dragon to help them with writing by taking the focus off the mechanics of composition—spelling, sentence structure, etc.—so it’s easier to transfer ideas into written words.
For English Language Learners (ELLs)
Research has shown that ELLs, also known as emergent bilinguals, can benefit from using Dragon to harness their oral English skills to advance their academic writing. Studies have also shown that Dragon can support ELLs with note taking, paraphrasing, fluency, word comprehension, and pronunciation – skills that can help drive academic success.
For Business Education Students
Dragon is being integrated into traditional middle school, secondary and post-secondary business courses across the US to prepare students for the 21st century workplace. Dragon is the perfect speech input technology choice for business education curriculum because it’s remarkably easy to learn; it’s highly accurate for the vast majority of speakers; it’s a proven student productivity tool; and it’s available in many languages.
For Teachers
With Dragon, teachers can read and respond to students' essays quickly and easily. They can add more comments and detailed notes because they’re not constrained by time-consuming hand-written feedback – not to mention poor penmanship! With a wireless headset, teachers reviewing assignments and providing dictated feedback are no longer tied so closely to the desk and computer. They can move around as they dictate notes to students or sit back and relax as they add comments to papers.
Applications:
STUDENTS:
Write and format papers and presentations Dragon’s fast, accurate dictation capabilities make it easier for students to transfer thoughts and ideas into written text without worrying about spelling mistakes. Dragon also makes it simple to edit and format documents by voice. It provides direct commands for formatting, deleting, and copying words and passages. For example, it enables students to name the target text and desired action in a single voice command, such as "Bold very.” They can even designate a whole passage by quoting its first and last word(s). Furthermore, Dragon provides fine control over the form, spacing and capitalization of items written in various contexts.
Take notes for papers and assignments
Dragon saves students time by letting them take notes by simply talking to their computers or speaking into a Nuance-certified handheld digital recorder for later transcription on their PC. No more cramped fingers from jotting down notes by hand. They can just dictate important facts as they read print or online material.
Conduct Internet-based research Students can use simple spoken commands to find information on the Internet or files on their computer. They can locate information quickly and easily by simply saying things like, "Search the Web for global warming articles,” "Search Wikipedia for George Washington Carver,” or "Search eBay for Batman comic books.”
Communicate with peers and teachers
With Dragon, students can send email and IMs to collaborate on group or classroom projects — entirely by voice. They can use their voice to compose and send both email and instant messages to classmates and teachers, enabling full participation in group projects that require ongoing communication, collaboration, and sharing of information.
TEACHERS
Prepare lesson plans and assignments
Because Dragon enables users to dictate three times faster than typing — with up to 99% accuracy —teachers can prepare lesson plans, syllabi, reading lists, worksheets, and more faster than ever before.
Assess Student Work
Teachers can use Dragon to provide more detailed feedback when assessing student work — from papers through research projects to tests — with unprecedented speed and ease.
Send and Manage Email
Like other professionals, teachers are often bombarded with up to hundreds of emails a day — from colleagues, administrators, parents and students. With Dragon, they can control email applications, and compose and reply to messages — all by voice — to keep up with the administrative aspect of their job.
A Nuance-approved noise-cancelling headset with microphone is included with purchase.
System Requirements:
The install process checks that your system meets the minimum requirements; if they are not met, Dragon NaturallySpeaking will not be installed.
- CPU: minimum 1 GHz Intel® Pentium® or equivalent AMD processor or 1.66 GHz Intel® Atom® processor. We recommend 1.8 GHz Intel Dual Core or equivalent AMD processor. (IMPORTANT: SSE2 instruction set required)
- Processor Cache: minimum 512 KB. We recommend 2 MB.
Free hard disk space: 3.2 GB (2.8 GB for localized non-English versions)
Supported Operating Systems: --Microsoft Windows 7, 32-bit and 64-bit --Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, 32-bit and 64-bit --Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, 32-bit only --Windows Server 2003 and 2008, SP1, SP2 and R2, 32-bit and 64-bit
RAM: minimum 1 GB for Windows XP and Windows Vista, and 2 GB for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003/2008. We recommend 2 GB RAM for Windows XP and Windows Vista, and 4 GB for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003/2008 64-bit.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher (free download at www.microsoft.com) C* reative® Labs Sound Blaster® 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording
- DVD-ROM drive required for installation
- Nuance-approved noise-canceling headset microphone (included in purchase). See details at support.nuance.com/compatibility/ (includes information on Bluetooth microphones, recorders, and Tablet PCs).
Note: An internet connection is required for product activation (a quick anonymous process).
*This edition of Dragon does not support dictation directly into Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems. For EMR support, please use Dragon Medical Edition.
Reviews
Ronald Frealey
June 27, 2011 - Excellent product, totally changed my workflows, perfect for health nuts
I'm able to dictate numerous things while riding an exercise bike and/or working out on my treadmill. Keeping fit while keeping up with my correspondence is pretty money.
Haven't had any major snafus with speech to text, gets whole emails with no problems. Some weirder last names give it trouble.
Joshua Cantu
January 3, 2012 - I LOVE DRAGON(s)
The $99 version is for students/teachers and the $159.95 version is for schools.
