I SPEAK DRAGON 2009 – AUDIO FILES

1. I SPEAK DRAGON 2009 – AUDIO FILES

2. Dragon Customer Ronald Banks “I am a licensed psychologist in private practice, specializing in mobile forensic psychological assessments. I administer psychological batteries in the field (juvenile justice facilities, foster homes) on a weekly basis. I needed a quicker, more efficient method to complete my evaluations in a timely manner especially with upcoming court dates looming. It is critical that I have timely submission of the evaluations so that the children do not languish in the court system longer than needed. With Dragon I use a digital voice recorder to dictate a report immediately, sometimes while driving back to my office. A report can be completed and emailed to the court within minutes. Without Dragon Naturally Speaking a report used to take 10+ hours to type. Dragon has enabled me to expedite reports and help to facilitate the treatment services the children desperately need to improve their lives.”

3. A Deputy Chief Operating Officer Using Dragon “I am the Deputy Chief Operating Officer of a federal funded organization and the correspondence, email and reports associated with this position used to be overwhelming. That was before I starting Speaking Dragon, now it is manageable! Having to reply to 75-125 emails a day, do field inspection reports, write letters and meeting minutes in addition to my normal tasks and projects would now be impossible for me without the use of my Dragon NaturallySpeaking office assistant. I say assistant because it has truly become exactly that to me! I love being able to put on my microphone and get 4 hours of work done in less than 1 hour. It is so helpful to quickly put that mic on and dictate notes on something I am reading that will require a report or pull my recorder out while out in the field and dictate my inspection findings then just convert that into my report and have it instantly 99% completed. Professionally I do not think I could now survive without Dragon.”

4. A School Social Worker Using Dragon “As a school social worker, part of my job is to visit and counsel with parents and children. But, this also requires lots of word processing and notes, filling in forms, and case management reports. ... It is very time consuming and becomes difficult to multi-task ... Some years ago, I began looking for a better and faster way to do my reports, so I could spend more time with parents and children, and counseling them in their homes. With Dragon, I began dictating my notes between home visits. Instead of taking 1 1/2-3 hours to create a social history, I was only taking 30 minutes or less. When one compares how much time and money is saved using Dragon, it pays for itself in a very short time period.”

5. A Clinical Psychologist Using Dragon “I am a clinical psychologist and I use DNS to dictate my assessments and session notes. Doing so has allowed me to save considerable time and also to be more thorough in my session notes. The time saving is particularly important as I have only limited time between patients and prefer to do my notes when the information is freshest. Furthermore, the time saving does not compromise the thoroughness of my notes. To the contrary, using DNS allows me capture my thoughts more naturally and to record them in detail with less overall time expenditure.”

6. A Clinical Psychologist Using Dragon “As a Manhattan based clinical psychologist, I dictate notes following each contact with a patient. As the director of one of the state's busiest group practices I am responsible for making sure each new patient I interview gets assigned to the proper therapist on my staff. Furthermore, I am responsible for my own private caseload. Using Dragon since version 8 came out, I have cut my record keeping down at least 75%. In addition to my staff of 20 therapists I have 5 kids; time is valuable -- I will never go back to typing treatment notes.”