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Question re: Dragon Naturally Speaking
Sep. 7th, 2008 10:40 amJust has a clean-out of my deadletter folder, and found spam... sorry, "promotional offers to our wonderful customers who registered their previous software purchase from us", from the people who made the OCR software bundled with my scanner some years back. Who also own Dragon Naturally Speaking. And they want to sell me the shiny new edition of Dragon for half price, in order to shift lots of copies in the first month.
Now there's a coincidence, because my next job after wading through the recent email was to do some preliminary hunting for a cheap copy of Dragon. The catch is that I registered that software from my US address, and the coupon is only good on Nuance's US site. Fair enough, since with the usual "change the currency symbol and leave the number the same" attitude to pricing software in the UK, it's *still* cheaper to buy it in the US and pay the $65 shipping charge, if I want the bundle with the Preferred edition and the Bluetooth headset. Possibly even after I get stung for VAT and import duty by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise.
However... Back when I last used it, somewhere around version 4 or 5, it came in separate editions depending on which country you were in. This was important, because the American version had serious trouble understanding a British accent, and vice versa. Does anyone know if this is still the case with V10, or if they now have a generic one that includes all the accents the thing understands? (And a British spelling dictionary.)
There's also the issue of whether a US spec Bluetooth headset will work in the UK. Having been burnt once too often by strange region-coding issues on things that you'd expect to be used by international travellers...
Now there's a coincidence, because my next job after wading through the recent email was to do some preliminary hunting for a cheap copy of Dragon. The catch is that I registered that software from my US address, and the coupon is only good on Nuance's US site. Fair enough, since with the usual "change the currency symbol and leave the number the same" attitude to pricing software in the UK, it's *still* cheaper to buy it in the US and pay the $65 shipping charge, if I want the bundle with the Preferred edition and the Bluetooth headset. Possibly even after I get stung for VAT and import duty by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise.
However... Back when I last used it, somewhere around version 4 or 5, it came in separate editions depending on which country you were in. This was important, because the American version had serious trouble understanding a British accent, and vice versa. Does anyone know if this is still the case with V10, or if they now have a generic one that includes all the accents the thing understands? (And a British spelling dictionary.)
There's also the issue of whether a US spec Bluetooth headset will work in the UK. Having been burnt once too often by strange region-coding issues on things that you'd expect to be used by international travellers...