Description Price Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred 11 $199 Dragon is licensed per speaker, but can be loaded on 3 computers. Each speaker needs a license.

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.

Downloadable Data Sheet: Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred (Click to view/ download)

Minimum System Requirements

• Intel Pentium4 or later or AMD Athlon 64 1 GHz minimum. We recommend 2.4 GHz (1.6 GHz dual core) or equivalent AMD processor. (Note: SSE2 instruction set required .)

• RAM- minimum 512 MB (1 GB for Windows Vista, and 2 GB for Windows 7). We recommend 1 GB (2 GB for Windows 7 32-bit, and 4 GB for Windows 7 64-bit)1 GB free hard disk space

• Supported Operating Systems :

  • Windows Server 2000
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows 2000 SP4
  • Windows XP SP2 and SP3, 32-bit
  • Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, 32-bit and 64-bit  
  • Windows 7, 32-bit and 64-bit 
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• Creative^® Sound Blaster^® 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording

• Microsoft^® Internet Explorer 6 or higher (free download available at www.microsoft.com)

• DVD-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