A Buyer’s Guide to Speech Recognition Software

Dragon NaturallySpeaking® is the World’s most successful speech recognition software program. 1450 is the world’s largest distributor of the Solution Series of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, including their Medical, Legal and Professional editions.

Once you’ve made up your mind that speech recognition software is for you, please use the following pages to determine the best method of accomplishing your goal of successfully implementing it.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is available at a number of retail establishments that you’re likely to find in the commercial district of your community. They commonly have available to you at those locations the Standard and possibly the Preferred editions. While we acknowledge that those software programs are exciting, powerful, and reasonably accurate, if you are expecting to use your software in a business environment, it is our STRONG recommendation that you more seriously consider either the Professional, Medical or Legal edition, depending upon your particular situation. Yes – we too sell the Preferred edition. However, if you are planning on using it to run your business, rather than to write emails to your friends, our experience would indicate that you will soon be disappointed that you did not purchase the more powerful Professional edition of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. And, of course, should you be either a physician or other healthcare worker, the Medical edition is most appropriate, and similarly for attorneys and the Legal edition. Please read our article about Dragon NaturallySpeaking comparison for more information.

Now, having determined that you need Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional, Medical or Legal – where do you turn to? 1450 has been selling Dragon NaturallySpeaking to the overwhelming majority of speech recognition dealers in the United States and Canada since 1997. We know more about the strengths and weaknesses of the reseller channel maybe even then we care to know. However, this knowledge can save you money, time, lost productivity, and more importantly it can provide you with the highest probability of a successful installation of this amazing productivity software. Some of our resellers are very good at shipping boxes at low cost. Some of them are very good at hardware analysis. Others are expert at on-line training while still others have a phenomenal success rate when they actually go to your office, install the software, provide you with all of the necessary related hardware and train you and your staff on how to use Dragon. In fact, many of our resellers specialize in one or more vertical markets, such as healthcare, and have done many successful networked installations of the software. Yes – you can go to your local retailer and give a bunch of boxes of unknown software to your network engineer and hope for the best. However, our years of experience would indicate that the probabilities of your being ecstatic that you purchased this software increase dramatically when purchased through the proper channel. And, again, our strong opinion is that the Value Added Reseller Channel is the proper channel through which any business person should acquire Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

So – how can we impart these years of experience to you? On the following pages we have a variety of tools for you to use to learn more about the reseller channel. And, of course, we’d be delighted to hear from you by phone to give you more information. Please call 1.866.865.1450.