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Forget it.
I will never buy another product from this manufacturer. I have a legal copy of this program, and on the weekend my motherboard died. I had to buy a new board then reinstall all my software, and when I got to DNS8 it told me I'd registered too many times and I had to buy a new copy. <
>Hidden somewhere in the site I found reference to uninstalling the previous install whilst online to allow me to install it again. So, I dug out my old hard drive, set it up temporarily, connected to the internet and uninstalled. Went to the new machine and installed and ... no dice. Same message. <
>This is the worst example of product activation, and when I went to customer support they wanted my credit card number in order to charge ME $9.95 to install a legally purchased product. I will now explore other means because I fully intend to use the software I paid a lot of money for. <
>And in case anyone from the company ever reads this (unlikely), I'm going to use all my online clout to tell people just how annoyed I am. I only get one thousand three hundred unique visitors per day to my websites and blogs, but that adds up to quite a few people over a couple of months and you can be damn sure every one of them will hear about this. I once wrote a lengthy blog post praising your product. Now it's time for the addendum.

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It sort of works
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>I bought DNS 8 Standard to use mainly on trips so I could keep a diary of the trips. <
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>When I tried it, the voice recognition was so-so. <
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>The worst part was that after about 3 pages the "file" fills up and you have to begin a new one. <
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>Now maybe there is a way around this, but I and no one else will be able to find out from Nuance. Their customer [dis]service is down at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. [I could make reference to whale droppings, but that wouldn't be polite.] <
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>I emailed them about this and was told to call for an answer. However, that would be my one and only free call. <
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>I really think, Nuance needs competition. <
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>Hello there Microsoft!

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Finally voice recognition that works in normal, noisy environments.
I have been aware of NaturallySpeaking for over 15 years. We initially utilized this software to assist people with severe disabilities such as cerebral palsy to be able to have basic commands understood. More recently five years ago I bought edition 4.0. I found it to be frustrating when ever there was any background noise so I basically quit using it. When I saw the 8.0 being advertised as the voice recognition software specifically for a small business atmosphere, I thought I would try it one more time. Being a slow typist it has truly changed my life for the better. Only 45 minutes were required to set up the speech-recognition files when the occasional mistakes occur during dictation if you correct those and change those right at that time, I never see that same misunderstanding happening again. I have recommended it to two friends who are buying it. It really does allow you to sit back in your chair relax, drink your coffee and dictate reports, answer e-mail or whenever it is you might need to do. I can't think of any $70 expenditure that has given me so much back in such a short time. I almost always have my headset on when I'm in front of the computer because anything that involves typing or entering data I used the DragonDictate to do.