I needed this software for work following an arm injury. Unfortunately, it has caused so many more frustrations from basic use then just attempting to type with one hand. The free voice recognition software on my phone works 500 times better. Sometimes I cannot believe how wrong it hears the words that I am saying, and going back to revise everything is incredibly time-consuming. Additionally, it has strange little pop-ups that get in the way of text that I am trying to read or click on. As it is, I am now just sticking to my phone, and emailing text to my work computer so that I don't have to use this software.

Okay, let me say first off that my five star rating is conditional.
You have to be REALLY good with tech to install this sucker.
I'm moderately tech savvy but I would never have been able to install the dragon software. This is one thing they just have to fix because it's ridiculously hard.
In fact for me it was no problem because I just had the main problem-solving guy from our company's IT department install it for me.
Despite the installation complexity, I gave it five stars because for the eight months I've been using it, it's just great.
It's accurate and it's easy to correct mistakes. I've no complaints with it at all. It's the best Dragon has ever made.

I've been using voice recognition, Mostly Dragon, For 17 years. I never type anything more then one short sentence. Every document, e-mail, etc. that I have created all these years has been done with voice recognition.
So, I have a tip:
With each new version of voice recognition software that I use, I have found that over time, The voice files get so huge and complex that they begin to degrade and then the software makes more and more mistakes and becomes becomes less and less useful.
So, what you can do is use the new software for a couple months to get its vocabulary just where you want it.
Then, back up your speech files and save them somewhere where you can find them.
When the software starts going all to hell, uninstall the software, reinstall the software along with your backed up speech files.

The Dragon Naturally Speaking Premium 13.0 is AWESOME!!!! I have to dictate many anecdotes and with this program it's a breeze. I am still learning the program but for the most part I am getting so much done rather then typing it all out. Just right out of the package and knowing a few commands right now I am still doing so much . I feel once I get all the commands down and play with it more it's going to be a life saver!.....it already is : )

There is a steep learning curve beginning to speak in written language, and verbalizing capitalization and punctuation----but that's a problem for the user (me) and not fault of the software. Once the user does his/her part, the software is great!! The more you use the program, the better it gets---the software adjusts to an individuals speech, it sort of learns to understand you better as you go along by updating you user profile at the end of every session. The PREMIUM version is worth getting because you can put your user profile on a flash drive and move to to another computer that has Dragon.

Dragon takes time to learn - did it back in 2000. Wanted to learn and use on a current assignment; however, it took over my computer adn I couldn't use Word in the traditional manner. Removed Dragon to permit me to develop the documents for the current assignment.