ICONS India starts shipping of Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12, delivering unprecedented accuracy

Oct. 11, 2012 - PRLog -- ICONS, Indian Distributor for Nuance a leading provider of speech solutions, today unveiled Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12, a new release of the world's best-selling speech recognition software that fundamentally improves the way people interact with their computers. From improved accuracy and faster performance, to an intuitive new interface, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 has been redesigned to let people spend more of their energy working and creating, rather than clicking and typing.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12, the fastest, most accurate and easy-to-use version of Dragon yet with more than 100 new features and enhancements that will let people stop typing and start talking, and get more done in less time than ever before.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking brings voice recognition to the PC, and allows individuals to simply talk to create content and command a computer. Dragon's powerful voice recognition software ignites new levels of productivity and convenience by enabling people to interact with and command their PC, cruise through email, update Facebook in seconds, surf the Web and create reports - just by speaking

Dragon 12 now boasts a 20 percent improvement to out-of-the-box accuracy, faster performance and new technology that learns your preferences as you use the software. Further, Dragon 12 works better than ever with Gmail and Hotmail, and extends the free Dragon Remote Microphone App experience to Android, turning compatible Android phones into a wireless microphone for Dragon for PC.

For years, people from all walks of life have used Dragon on the PC to be more productive, save time and capture their ideas at the speed of thought - at home, in the office, the courtroom, the classroom, the exam room, or even on the road.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 delivers the incredible accuracy and speed that people have come to rely on from the Dragon family, and includes many more features to help people speak their minds:

At Home - Whether it's capturing family stories, surfing the Web, updating a Facebook status or helping students cut homework time in half, Dragon NaturallySpeaking gives people an easy way to get more done in less time.
At Work - Dragon NaturallySpeaking allows busy professionals, students, teachers, writers and bloggers, to get their thoughts on paper as fast as they can speak them, including emails, documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
On the Go - Couple Dragon with a recording device and speak your notes, ideas and thoughts on the go. Dragon does the work later, transcribing the audio into text back at the PC.
Significant New Features Include:

Fast, accurate and Easy - Nothing comes between Users and their Words.

With significant accuracy improvements - up to 20% out of the box over Version 11, Dragon further personalizes and simplifies the PC experience to help them get more done - faster than ever. A new interactive tutorial is available to walk people through fun exercises that demonstrate best practices for dictating, editing and formatting to get up and running quickly. And, taking advantage of the latest multi-core processors in today's PCs, Dragon truly works at the speed of sound.

The More You Use Dragon, The More it Gets to Know You

Dragon has long adapted to a person's preferred style of writing as well as the audio characteristics of their voices including pitch, speaking style, accents and even speech impediments. With Dragon 12, the experience is further personalized with Smart Format Rules, a new technology that adapts to the way the user prefers to format their words. Dragon automatically detects word, phrase and format corrections, including abbreviations, numbers and more, so dictated letters, emails and documents reflect a person's own writing style every time.

Gmail and Hotmail - Dragon's Got Them Covered

Dragon 12 now works even better with two of the most popular web-based email applications - Gmail and Hotmail - offering Full Text Control and commands for the most frequent actions in Internet Explorer 9, Mozilla Firefox 12 or higher and Google Chrome 16 or higher.

No Wires Necessary - Enhanced Wideband Bluetooth and Dragon Remote Microphone App for Android Improve Wireless Options for Dragon.

Dragon 12 features support for the Dragon Remote Microphone App for iOS and now for Android devices. People can quickly and easily turn their mobile phone into a microphone for use with Dragon over a Wi-Fi network using the free Dragon Remote Microphone App. Dragon 12 also features enhanced support for wideband 16 kHz Bluetooth wireless headset microphones, providing increased accuracy through a higher-quality audio signal. When Dragon detects that a certified microphone is paired with the PC, Dragon 12 offers "Enhanced Bluetooth" as an audio source type. The improved audio quality eliminates the requirement for Bluetooth users to do initial voice training, allowing them to get started faster than ever (Bluetooth and Enhanced Bluetooth support available in Premium edition and higher)

Dragon Reads Back with Natural Text-to-Speech

Dragon 12's natural-sounding text-to-speech reads editable text-with fast-forward, rewind, speed and volume control-for easy proofing and multi-tasking

Additional features include:

Enriched Performance Assistant

Richer Help Menu.

More Ways to cutomize Options

New Voice Commands...more

"Dragon 12 is a remarkable leap forward in voice recognition technology. With Dragon's increased accuracy, speed and more than 100 new features and enhancements, the technology simply disappears and your ideas flow onto the screen in front of you," said Peter Mahoney, Chief Marketing Officer for Nuance and Senior Vice President, General Manager, Dragon.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Dragon has long been a leading speech recognition application on the desktop, used by millions of people around the world. As demand for speech has grown, Nuance has sought to make speech recognition accessible to more people, from more places and devices.

Availability
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Home and Premium are available immediately starting ICONS regional offices as well as its Pan-India network of reseller partners, software retailers and professional sales organizations. For additional information on features, editions, pricing and volume licensing programs, please visit http://www.icons.net.in

About ICONS

ICONS, is a 14 year old Mumbai based national distributor of specialized software & hardware products having expertise in three verticals of business:

Icons is the Exclusive authorized distributor for Nuance products in India. Icons has a pan-India distribution network through which it caters to a pool of clients with specialized software products like Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Speech recognition solution for windows), Dragon Legal, Dragon Medical, Andrea Microphones, MacSpeech Dictate (Speech recognition solution for Apple Macintosh), PDF Converters, OmniPage (OCR) & PaperPort (Desktop DMS). Please visit us at www.icons.net.in

About Nuance Communications

Nuance  is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance's proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.

ICONS, is a 14 year old Mumbai based national distributor of specialized software & hardware products having expertise in three verticals of business:

Icons is the authorized distributor for Nuance products in India. Icons has a pan-India distribution network through which it caters to a pool of clients with specialized software products like Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Speech recognition solution for windows),MacSpeech Dictate (Speech recognition solution for Apple Macintosh),PDF Converters, OmniPage (OCR) & PaperPort (Desktop DMS). Please visit us at www.icons.net.in