Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Dummies: Third Edition

Very light and easy reading, the guide simplifies the fairly complex program. New users of Dragon should have this book by their side. I did not give 5 stars, however, because it is a little out of date. Version 13 came out after the book. Additionally, I would have liked to see a little more depth to the program's problem areas. It is a finicky program that seems to need just the right combination of computer hardware and operating system version--at least as far as Windows is concerned. I would have hoped the book would have addressed these issues.

Do you know how incredibly liberating it is to say something and have it change into text? Sure that is dragon itself, but this book gives you a higher edge to it all. I know the basics of dragon, but it took my basics and took me more into advance. I can do just about everything online with this book as well as write my own. My favorite sections are the ones that really affirm that even though my accent was hard, it could learn it. It did! Oh and of course the cheat sheets with all the info on them. I kept them beside me for a time, and sometimes still glimpse at them, but I've become much better at the commands to move around myself, I hardly need the book cheats anymore.

I have been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for well over a decade. I am generally adverse to reading manuals.this becomes more problematic when they are in PDF files on the computer. The dummy manuals are designed for beginners and lazy people. I am the latter. Being able to jump from one page to another something in my lap is much more convenient and staring at a manual on the screen. Most of the dummy manuals are well done.

This was a good addition to the purchase of Naturally Speaking Professional Edition. When a question arose, it was quicker to seek an answer using this rather than the manufacturer's instructions. It did not answer every question involving the Professional edition but helped with those questions common to most editions. Overall well worth the moderate purchase price.

Well-written and informative book for NEW users of Dragon. Is quite up to date with the Version 12 information. Thought as an experienced user of Dragon I might pick up some information about tricks or techniques of which I was unaware, but found this to be a good trainer for basic orientation for new or casual user.

I remember the old Dragon Dictate my wife had that took 50 hours to train and cost a small fortune so I was pleasantly surprised by how far the program has come and how easy it was to train and use. Its made the work i'm doing fun again.

I WAS LOOKING FOR AN NSTRUCTION BOOK WHICH WOULD GIVE ME THE STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS FOR MY DAUGHTER WHO IS BLIND AND CAN NOT TYPE BECAUSE OF HER HANDICAP (NMO AN AUTO IMMUNE DISEASE).tHIS GAVE ME MORE OF A GENERAL INSTRUCTION.

There is a bit of a learning curve but once you learned its keywords you are very productive.The software does like a lot of memory and you may have to upgrade your computer memory to get the best performance.Also – the manual recommends you restart your computer daily – who does that anymore? This sounds like there is a memory leak.

I was not aware until recently that speech recognition is a reality, not just a dream, and I now have DNS. I have known and been grateful for "for Dummies" for years and now cannot imagine life without this one. It not only tells you how to install and use DNS but goes on to suggest other uses you hadn't even thought of. It warns you that training yourself is a long job and I am barely out of the starting gate.

If there is a fault in it, it is that it covers things in detail which happen pretty much automatically anyway, but that is not a big fault and might be more helpful to others than to me. If you haven't used voice recognition before, reading this could make the difference between getting on with it and giving up with it.

Working my way through this book, tremendous tips that have already made life an awful lot easier and saved me a lot of frustration in getting to grips with Dragon NaturallySpeaking

As always with the Dummy books you get clear advice. I have found this book very helpful, I do wish though that, because I have an Apple Mac that some parts could help me there

This is a fantastic book. A truly helpful item, you cannot go wrong purchasing this book. I am a very happy customer. Helps with using Dragon.