Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal

Details

Designed specifically for the legal community, Dragon Legal includes a special language model to help you achieve optimal out-of-the-box accuracy when dictating legal terms, automatically formats legal citations, and offers third-party correction features to speed document turnaround and reduce reliance on support staff. Create custom voice commands to build and format document templates. Use your iPhone or iPod as a wireless microphone. Dictate into a digital recorder for additional productivity on the go. Dragon Legal even provides security features, configuration options, and administrative tools for managing large user networks.

Fast, Accurate Dictation
Dictate naturally to create contracts, briefs, court documents, email messages and more — three times faster than typing — with up to 99% recognition accuracy.

Works with Most Windows-based Applications
Use your voice to dictate into and control virtually any Windows application, including the Microsoft® Office suite, Corel WordPerfect, and most case management programs.

Convenient Voice Shortcuts
Use simple voice commands to create files, send email, schedule meetings, open and close applications, save and convert documents, and search the Web or your desktop faster than ever before.

More Productivity Away from the PC
Use your iPhone or iPod as a wireless microphone for great recognition accuracy without being tethered to your PC by a traditional microphone. You can also dictate into a Nuance-approved digital voice recorder from anywhere, at any time and Dragon will automatically transcribe the audio files when you return to your PC.

No More Transcription Bottlenecks
Speed document turnaround and reduce dependencies on support staff with third-party correction features. An Auto-Transcribe Folder Agent manages the transcribed text and synchronized audio flow of digital voice recordings to streamline third-party review and correction. A Roaming User feature supports dictation and third-party correction from different network locations and computing devices while ensuring centralized control of master user profiles.

Time-saving Macros
Easily create or import custom voice commands that let you build and format document templates, insert frequently used text and/or graphics, or automate common workflow tasks like saving a document under a certain name, printing it, and attaching it to an email.

Ideal for Enterprise Deployments
Centrally manage voice profiles, custom vocabularies, feature access, and multiple installations over a network. Robust security features and administrative tools make Dragon enterprise ready.

Section 508 Certified
Meet government-mandated accessibility requirements for workers with disabilities. Prevent repetitive stress injuries and keep more employees on the job.

Features/Demos

• Feature Demos:

• Dragon Remote Microphone
• Improved Correction
• New Facebook and Twitter Commands
• Improved Formatting and Editing Commands
• General Dictation
• Searching the Web
  
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Features:

• Up to 99% speech recognition accuracy right out of the box
• Creation of  documents, reports, spreadsheets, or messages just by speaking
• Ability to compose emails or search the Web for information faster than ever with Dragon Voice Shortcuts
• Nuance Text-to-Speech technology that reads on-screen text in human-sounding synthesized speech
• Dragon Voice Shortcuts that let you create email, schedule appointments, and search your desktop using simple voice commands
• Creation of custom commands for inserting frequently used text and graphics or automating routine data entry
• Ability to use Dragon with a Nuance-approved digital voice recorder and automatically transcribe your recorded voice
• Support for multiple audio input devices; use Dragon with a wireless microphone, including Bluetooth
• Support for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, and virtually any other Windows application
• Audio playback of your dictation with the associated transcription highlighted on the screen for easier proofreading and correction
• Ability to import/export custom word lists that can include commonly used proper names or industry-specific terminology
• Preconfigured vocabulary that includes more than 30,000 legal terms
• Third-party correction features
• Dragon Voice Notations feature that  allow the speaker to make side comments that are saved as part of the recorded dictation but do not appear as part of the transcribed text
• Support for custom voice commands to quickly insert frequently used text and graphics
• Administrative security options to enable only select users to modify vocabularies; add/modify/create custom commands; and view/edit/export custom commands
• Dragon profiles centralized on the network ("Roaming" configuration)
• Ability to create AutoTranscribe Folder Agent
• Remote management of word lists, custom commands and vocabularies (Nsadmin.exe and Data Distribution Tool wizard)
• MSI installation.
• High-quality headset microphone included with purchase

What's New

New features and enhanced capabilities introduced with Dragon 11 and 11.5 Legal include:

Improved Audio Input Options
•    The new Dragon Remote Microphone application converts your iPhone, iPad or iPhone touch into a wireless microphone.
•    The minimum reading time required to train Dragon for use with a digital recorder was reduced from 15 to 4 minutes. The enrollment user interface now guides the user through a simplified, clear set of instructions to set-up Dragon for use with a portable device. 

Improved Corporate/Enterprise Usability  
•    Improvements to enterprise profile management make it easier to work with “roaming” user profiles based on specific network connections, and the enhanced open user dialog for large sites makes it faster to access multiple profiles.

Improved Speed and Accuracy
•    15% greater accuracy out of the box compared to Dragon 10.
•    Improved ability to learn from corrections of misrecognitions —whether the revisions are dictated or typed — to deliver continuous accuracy improvements over time.
•    Response times significantly faster than Dragon 10 for dictating, for selecting application menu items by voice, and for executing voice commands to perform application functions.

More Intuitive User Interface
•    New Dragon Sidebar of commands makes it easier to discover and access important but often overlooked features, commands, and options.
•    Recognition analytics alert you where there is an audio issue so you can achieve the best accuracy.
•    Elimination of on-screen distraction enables you to focus more on your thoughts and ideas for better communication.

Time-Saving Voice Commands
•    More Dragon Voice Shortcuts are included to consolidate multiple mouse clicks and keystrokes into a single voice command
•    New desktop and document navigation commands let you switch effortlessly between open windows by just saying the number of the selected window. Other commands make it simpler than ever to launch popular Windows programs on demand or to scroll up or down through pages of text within Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 programs.
•    Enhanced editing and formatting capabilities enable you to make multiple selections, edits or formatting changes at one time for improved productivity and time savings.
 

Tech Specs

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: 2.5 GB (3.2 GB for localized non-English versions)
• Supported Operating Systems:
o Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, 32-bit and 64-bit
o Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, 32-bit and 64-bit
o Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, 32-bit only
o Windows Server 2003 and 2008, SP1, SP2 and R2 SP1, 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)
• Creative® 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 Bluetooth microphones, recorders, and Tablet PCs).

*This edition of Dragon does not support dictation directly into Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems. For EMR support, please use Dragon Medical Edition
 

Reviews

What are customers saying about Dragon?

“As a lawyer handling a large volume of cases, office efficiency is a must. Dragon required virtually no training; ready to go right out of the box. I can honestly say Dragon NaturallySpeaking is the best office product I have ever used." Howell A.

“As Director of Contracts at a software company, I create, review and revise legal documents all day. I have tendonitis from repetitive motion (too much typing) so I use Dragon to dictate memos, emails, letters, notices, etc. and this saves me from the pain and strain typing puts on my hands. Not only that, Dragon is a great relief from eye strain as I can have my text dictated back to me after it is composed. Our entire company uses instant messaging as its preferred means of communicating with coworkers in other offices, departments and in a dozen other countries around the world. I use Dragon to dictate my messages and don't even have to hit the enter key to send them. A simple "click Send" command is all it takes. The more my hands are off the keyboard, the less pain I have, both literally and figuratively." Jacalyn

“Dragon has been able to accurately learn new and complex words and phrases easily. Without Dragon I would not be able to continue my career." Howard B.

“I am out of the office a lot and use my digital recorder to take notes and reminders of things that need to be taken care of. When I get back to the office I upload the digital recorder, and I am amazed at the accuracy of the transcription." Tom A.

“I can dictate a document probably quicker than someone writing, and the best part: the words are spelled correctly." Terry S.

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