Dragon Legal FAQ

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal 12:
Ignite Superior Performance

  • 20% fewer recognition errors and more accurate formatting minimize the need for corrections

• Smart Format Rules allow Dragon to adapt by detecting your format corrections – abbreviations, numbers, and more — so your dictated text looks the way you want it to every time

• More word choice options make correcting your dictated text faster and easier than ever before

• More natural-sounding text-to-speech voices read back editable text for easy proofing or multitasking

Ignite an Exceptional User Experience

• An interactive tutorial provides simulations to enable you to learn and practice good dictation, correction and editing habits so that you can become more proficient with Dragon in record time

• Automatic display of the Dictation Box provides full text control and a more consistent dictation experience across all applications and windows

• Use Dragon with two of the most popular web-based email applications — Gmail™ and Hotmail® — with Full Text Control and commands for the most frequent actions

• Use a Nuance-approved digital voice recorder or a compatible iOS device with our free Dragon Recorder app to record thoughts anywhere, at any time; Dragon automatically transcribes the audio files to text at your PC

• Use your iPhone®, iPod® touch (4th gen), iPad® or your compatible Android device as a remote microphone for greater freedom and flexibility

Ignite Better Business with a Enterprise-Ready Legal Solution

• Enterprise-ready security features, configuration options and administrative tools make it easy to manage voice profiles, custom vocabularies and commands, feature access, and multiple installations over a network

• 508-certified software meets government-mandated accessibility requirements for workers with disabilities and helps prevent fatigue and repetitive stress injuries for all employees

• Expanded capabilities enable you to export word properties in XML when exporting custom vocabulary for use in other user profiles

• Take advantage of the Auto-Transcribe Folder Agent (AFTA) which automatically manages the flow of transcribed text and synchronized audio of digital voice recordings to streamline third-party review and correction. (Supports .DOC, .RTF and .TXT. Runs a script (such as an email notification) when a transcription is complete)

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Computer Specs

We do not currently recommend AMD processors because they are lagging too far behind Intel.
Although NaturallySpeaking 11/12 and below will run on Windows XP, we recommend Windows 7/8 64-bit and minimally8 Gb of RAM. We only recommend Intel-based i7 Ivy Bridge quad core processors and if this is a new computer, we recommend adding 16 Gb of RAM for upcoming technology. New computer RAM is relatively inexpensive. The actual speed of the processor is not important but the amount of cache plays a significant role. Our favorite computer company is M-Tech. If an i7 isn't in the budget an i5 or i3 will work but the i3 would be our last recommendation because of the smaller cache. Even the i5 may occasionally time out. Note that while you can run NaturallySpeaking on faster processors, like hex cores, you probably won't notice any difference.
Note that DNS Ver. 10 will not run on Windows 8 and you may experience some issues with Ver. 11. Only Ver. 12 is completely Ver. 8 compatible.
If you are planning on installing Ver. 10/11/12 on an older computer make certain that your computer supports SSE2 instructions. NaturallySpeaking 10/11/12 requires that the processor support SSE2 in order to run properly.  To determine whether or not your computer supports SSE2 click http://cpuid.com/cpuz.php. You will also need to install SP 3 if you are using Windows XP