This week we shine the spotlight on Mike Bednarski, our customer of the week! As a 12 year-old with dyslexia, Mike has struggled with writing and reading comprehension for years. In his story from last year’s I Speak Dragon contest, he attributes his newly-found confidence to Dragon software and says he feels he has now [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Customer of the Week – Mike Bednarski!
Posted in Customer of the Week, Dragon Dictate, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, tagged Customer of the week, Dragon, Dragon blog, Dragon Dictate, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, I Speak Dragon, learning disabilities, speech recognition, voice recognition, writing on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Customer of the Week – Karen Howes!
Posted in Customer, Customer of the Week, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, tagged Customer of the week, Dragon, Dragon blog, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, learning disabilities, productivity, speech recognition on March 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This week, we shine the spotlight on Karen Howes, our customer of the week! Karen is a Special Needs teacher working with students at the Bournedale Elementary School in Massachusetts. She first became familiar with Dragon NaturallySpeaking when trying to find an alternative solution for one of her students, Jackleen, who had difficulty writing and [...]
Dragon Thursday Tip (Mac) – Online Resources
Posted in Dragon Dictate, Resources, Tips, tagged Dragon, Dragon blog, Dragon Dictate, Dragon resources, Education, mac, speech recognition, tips, training on March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For our Thursday tip, we want to make sure you’re getting all that you can out of Dragon Dictate for Mac. Remember to check out all of our great online resources: To find the command cheat sheet and user workbook go here. For all of our Ask the Dictator videos go here. These are great [...]
Ask the Dictator – Kids Using Dragon
Posted in Ask the Dictator, tagged Ask the Dictator, assistive technology, Dragon blog, Dragon Dictate, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, Kids using Dragon, learning disabilities, speech recognition, voice recognition, writing on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week on Ask the Dictator, Peter “The Dictator” Mahoney answers some common questions that people have about kids using Dragon. Check it out here: If you have a topic that you’d like to suggest for a future episode, let us know right here in the comments, or better yet, go to our Ask [...]
Customer of the Week – Dr. Hopper!
Posted in Customer, Customer of the Week, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, tagged Customer of the week, Dragon, Dragon blog, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, productivity, speech recognition, voice recognition, writing on November 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week, we shine a spotlight on Dr. Mark Hopper, our Dragon customer of the week! Dr. Hopper, one of the winners of our 2011 I Speak Dragon contest, is a professor who uses Dragon to “work with words.” Read Dr. Hopper’s full story in his own words here! I am a college professor. Sometime [...]
Customer of the Week – CJ!
Posted in Customer of the Week, tagged assistive technology, Customer of the week, Dragon blog, dyslexia, Education, speech recognition, voice recognition on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week, we shine the spotlight on CJ Wallace, our Dragon customer of the week! CJ is a fifth grade student with dyslexia. Before he began using Dragon, it was difficult to keep up with his peers in class. Watch this video to hear CJ explain how Dragon made it easier to capture his thoughts [...]
Customer of the Week – Brandon!
Posted in Customer, Customer of the Week, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, tagged assistive technology, Customer of the week, Dragon, Dragon blog, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, speech recognition, voice recognition on November 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This week, we shine the spotlight on Brandon Snow, our customer of the week! Brandon is an Arizona State University senior who hasn’t let cerebral palsy impact his academic success. Snow and his father describe Dragon speech recognition as a dramatically life-changing assistive technology for students. “Dragon helps me dictate more concrete thoughts, and I’m [...]
Ask the Dictator: Episode 48 – Nuance Joins the Liberated Learning Consortium
Posted in Ask the Dictator, tagged Ask the Dictator, assistive technology, Dragon blog, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, learning disabilities, Nuance, speech recognition, voice recognition, voice writing on October 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In this week’s episode of “Ask the Dictator”, Peter discusses the recent news that Nuance has joined the Liberated Learning Consortium, (LLC), an international group of technology providers, colleges and universities working to advance information accessibility in higher education through the use of speech recognition technology. Nuance joins IBM as the second technology company to [...]
Dragon Customer of the Week – Gregory
Posted in Customer, Customer of the Week, Education, tagged Dragon, Dragon blog, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, speech recognition, voice recognition, voice writing on March 31, 2011 | 4 Comments »
There are so many amazing people using Dragon, and we’d like to start sharing some of their stories here each week. There are a lot of people who struggle with writing, and with simply expressing their thoughts via the written (or typed) word. It’s been encouraging to hear from students who have been using Dragon [...]
Dragon Speech Recognition in Education
Posted in Education, Webinars, tagged Dragon, Dragon blog, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, learning disabilities, speech recognition, voice recognition, voice writing on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A lot of folks know that Dragon provides an alternative to the keyboard for students with physical challenges. What you may not know, however, is that Dragon can also help ESL and ELL students, as well as students with various learning disabilities make huge leaps forward in reading, writing and spelling. Tune in on Thursday, February [...]
