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BEWARE.What the ad is missing is no support for Naturally Speaking Vista x64. And looking at the V10 Specs this continues to be a problem.
I find it overly sensitive. I have been a fan of Sony products for many years, but this particular product is a frustration to me. When I left my previous company I had to leave the Dragon Software behind. The joy stick is a nightmare, for me at least.
I have more crashes on the Parallels virtual machine than I thought could be possible. I have trouble getting it to do what I want it to do. The right, left, up down is fairly easy, but in trying to push the button down the machine usually responds with an "up" execution. I have many of the frustrations that some of the other reviewers have mentioned. Hmmm. My biggest hesitation in doing so was that I would have to give up being able to dictate to text unless I ran Windows.
So I bought Parallels, installed it. Bought the recorder and software and installed it too.
Why did I give it two stars. I also bought it to go with the Dragon Systems speech recognition software that it came bundle with.
What a nightmare. The push to execute feature of the joy stick, when I get it right, usually takes two or three pushes to actually perform the intended operation.I tried to upgrade using the coupon for the full version of Dragon, but they would not accept the code, and asked full payment instead.
Phooey.Finally, I switched to an Intel based Mac two and a half years ago when I changed companies. If anyone has any suggestions for me I am all ears, otherwise this recorder will end up getting tossed into Lake Washington the next time I go across the floating bridge.
Must be nostalgia and benefit of doubt from all my other many good Sony experiences.
The direction sheet is unreaable and measures 3 ft. I hate this device for many reasons. It takes more time to figure it out than it is worth. I would throw it out the window but am afraid I might hit someone and get sued. So upset. I have been trying to use it along with the dragon program for months now and I give up.
as you unfold it and try to use it. You need to be a computer genius to make this work at all. by 3 ft. The recorder has one tiny, tiny button in the middle that does everything or if you aren't good with it it does nothing you ask it to do. I can not even find out how to turn it off so I have to take the batteries out each time and then re-insert them. I am going to use my daughters cheap one and maybe actually get something accomplished.
I spent over 250.00 and wasted untold hours of my research time.
After multiple calls all over the world and getting a whole new shipment of exactly the same wrong thing, Amazon finally saw the light and through a very convulted process was able to satisfy the order. When I received my order the software enclosed was the recorder edition NOT the preferred edition promised in the spec sheet. Since you can get the recorder for about 200.00 elsewhere the selling point for me was the preferred software. Basically they refunded me the price of the Dragon 9 preferred software form my ICD order and then I bought the software from another one of their listings. So in the end - thanks Amazon (although I do think things could be a lot less complicated)
Instead it comes with a very abbreviated lite version called Naturally Speaking Recorder Edition. This is a great ICD that does a very accurate job of voice to text translation. However, the product does not come with Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred as described. You'll have to take advantage of a "special offer" from Nuance, fork over another $30 and reinstall the product to get the benefits of the Preferred edition. If you plan to dictate from a headset or use MS Word, you will want to upgrade.
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