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Nuance
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9
Professional Edition
$899
www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/ |
Type Into The Mic, Please
If it seems like Dragon NaturallySpeaking has been around for ages, that’s because the first version of the software was released back in June of 1997-more than 10 years ago. Not surprisingly, it’s the most advanced speech recognition application available, although Microsoft’s Windows Speech Recognition engine does enable similar functionality in Vista.
According to Nuance, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 is the most accurate version yet, achieving 99% accuracy. Obviously, those claims are going to depend largely on the person using the software and the system running it. Fortunately, gone are the days when your customer had to train the software before diving in. Instead, Nuance provides a series of tutorials that’ll teach the user how to best take advantage of NaturallySpeaking's standard functionality. Customers in more specialized industries can create custom vocabularies so that the software is able to recognize non-standard words and phrases.
The beauty of Dragon NaturallySpeaking is that it works with any app. The entire Microsoft Office suite, Internet Explorer, Firefox, WordPerfect—the list of compatible programs goes on and on. The latest version works under Vista, too.
Nuance includes an approved headset with each copy of NaturallySpeaking Professional, which does the job it needs to do. However, for veteran users stepping up to the latest and greatest, consider an even more luxurious headset as a great upsell opportunity. Sure, the voice recognition package is already a tad pricey at $899 (compare that to IBM’s ViaVoice at $79). businesses that stand to benefit from accurate dictation will find Dragon NaturallySpeaking to be a far more advanced solution, though.
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Matrox
TripleHead 2 Go
Digital Edition:
$329
www.matrox.com |
Upgrade Your Desktop Real Estate
It’s no secret that running multiple monitors is a productivity boon. Some folks add a second display and are satisfied with the extra room to work. Others, like me, get the crazy notion that if two displays are good, three or four would be even better.
Of course, not everyone has the four-headed workstation card designed for quad outputs or enough money to buy a second graphics board with two more DVI connectors. Others don’t have a choice in the matter. Customers who’re accustomed to a multi-display setup but are relegated to a notebook in the office or on the road don’t have a whole lot of scalability at their disposal. Introduce those power users to Matrox’s TripleHead 2 Go Digital Edition. The slim external box takes either an analog or dual-link digital input, which it then turns into a trio of single-link DVI outputs. Previously, Matrox only offered the TripleHead 2 Go in analog trim, taking one VGA input for three VGA outputs. Naturally, the digital version falls further in line with the types of displays most SMBs are going to be using today.
Priced at $329, Matrox’s TripleHead 2 Go might as well be a second video card. Even still, road warriors itching for desktop real estate when they touch home base can use the kit to expand beyond a simple laptop LCD, spanning resolutions up to 3840x1024 across the three digital connections.
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