Dragon Reviews & Insights

Dragon supports hands-free typing by commands and provides the opportunity to speak emails and documents. It has powerful keyboard shortcut capabilities by saying the word "press" for example "press Windows and D" and this works effectively. It makes more sense to say "Show Desktop" in Dragon. This assists with users who struggle to use keyboard. It is also possible to program your own autotext or language by using step by step commands. It can assist with workflows as you can open programmes by voice. It has potential to complete forms using macro recorder that will record a mouse movements to automate tasks.

Dragon is well suited for occasional dictation whereas for short tasks it may be less appropriate. Step by step commands can take a lot of time to program however these would be worthwhile long term if it is a repetitive task. Dragon is a new language to learn and this can be overwhelming. By following the guide this will support you for future use and it is possible to learn by using the "click" command which replicates the mouse click. With this scenario you can say what you see for example in Word, say click home then click centre which will centre the document