If your a freelance writer, or if you just write a lot on your computer, boy do I have a gem for you!

Dragon Naturally Speaking is a fantastic piece of software that will do wonders for you. Simply talk into a microphone and everything you say will be "dictated" or typed into a text editor of your choice. You can use it with Notepad, WordPad, MSWord or any other windows text editor of your choosing.

Pros:

• Since you can probably talk a lot faster than you type, you can create extremely long pieces of text work in a matter of a few minutes
• It's up to 98% accurate. It has a built in spell check feature, but you still may need to revise the grammar.
• Voice recognition! Not only can you use it to write up articles or other text documents, you can pretty much use it to run your computer.
  
• It can do just about everything, run programs, turn off your computer, create new documents, edit all parts of a document. It can even surf the web!
• Easy to use!

Cons:

• You may have to learn how to talk correctly (Gasp!!)
• Price
• So many commands. If you want to learn how to use this product to its fullest, your going to have to learn all the commands and trust me, there are a lot!
• It has problems deciding what to dictate and what not to dictate. I wouldn't recommend using this if you have a cold, for example. It will try to figure out what you are trying to say with all the sniffles and coughs.
• When your setting it up, speak clearly or your going to have hell with this software.

There are several different version of this software. Ranging from personal use to professional use. I have only purchased this product for personal use. Coming in at around $150 (depending on where you get it) it will put a whole in your wallet! But the pros greatly out weigh the cons! The amount of time it saves is invaluable.

I have been a freelance writer for about 5 months now and I can tell you that I have almost tripled what I made the past 4 months when I got this product simple because I was able to write up more articles in a shorter amount of time. If you write for a living, I urge you to get this as soon as you can. You will be amazed at how fast you will be able to pop out quality articles, ebooks or ezine ads with this.

Even if your just a computer geek, surprise your friends and family by running your computer by voice commands. It's voice protected as well, which means that it will not understand anything other people tell it. When you go through the initial setup process it keeps track of your voice. Every pitch and every tone will be "remembered" by the program. If someone jumps on your computer and tries to use it under your settings, nothing will happen!

Sadly, there is no demo or 30-day trial. I am afraid you're just going to have to take our word for it. I must admit that I to was extremely skeptical when I was purchasing this product, but hey, it comes with a money back garuntee so I figured, 'what the hell, it's worth a shot'.

Was I disappointed? No, in fact I was surprised that it worked as good as it did. At $150-$180, you get what you pay for...which is a lot!

I recommend this to everyone who does a lot of writing or to people who want to run their computer by voice recognition. Here is the link you can get it at...

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Preferred Speech Recognition