High Value Prizes Offered as Nuance Launches “Speech Recognition Success @ Work”

May 18, 2010 - PRLog -- London, UK,  - Nuance Communications , a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, has launched the ‘Speech Recognition: Success @ Work’ Story Competition, which invites business users of Dragon™ NaturallySpeaking® and MacSpeech Dictate to win great prizes. Simply by sharing their stories about how the products have enhanced and transformed their professional lives, and the role they have played in their organisations’ success, each of the qualifying competition entrants* will receive a promotional code for a 25% discount on an upgrade of Dragon NaturallySpeaking or MacSpeech Dictate. The first prize winner will be rewarded with five hours of speech recognition training sponsored by Nuance. The second prize is an iPod Touch featuring the latest speech technology from Nuance, while the third prize is a copy of Nuance’s award-winning PDF Converter Professional 6. A panel of judges selected by Nuance will choose the best success stories from three categories.

The ‘Speech Recognition: Success @ Work’ competition enables users to submit their stories online and through video clips, blog stories or community site entries**, with prizes for the top three entries across all of the categories. To enter the competition, participants can submit their entries between May 12th to July 30th by visiting http://www.nuance.co.uk/dragon-at-work/, and selecting the category they wish to enter. A current and active email address must also be submitted with their entry. Winners will be announced and contacted by Nuance in the summer of 2010.

The ‘Speech Recognition: Success @ Work’ categories include:

Speech Recognition transformed…Company Growth and Cost Savings - This category is for companies that can show demonstrable business growth, cost savings or improvements in customer service as a result of deploying Dragon NaturallySpeaking or MacSpeech Dictate.

Speech Recognition transformed…Productivity and Career Prospects - This category is for people who have ramped up their productivity, improved their performance at work, or have been helped up the career ladder, thanks to desktop speech recognition technology.

Speech Recognition transformed…Quality of Life at Work - This category is for businesses that were able to meet Access to Work requirements by offering Dragon NaturallySpeaking or MacSpeech Dictate to their workforce. It is also for those users for whom speech technology has changed their lives, by making it possible for them to use their computers more easily, or helped them overcome the challenges of a broken limb, repetitive stress injury, or any other injury that previously prohibited comfortable use of the keyboard and mouse.

“Against an ever more demanding business backdrop, increasing numbers of professionals have identified the business benefits of using Dragon NaturallySpeaking and MacSpeech Dictate to transform they way they work. The software has helped many businesses to save money, increase productivity or optimise customer service. With this competition, Nuance is encouraging businesses to share their successes to inspire others and so that we can celebrate and reward their achievements. It is also a great opportunity for businesses to share how Dragon NaturallySpeaking and MacSpeech Dictate have made them a leader in their respective business field.” said Steven Steenhaut, Senior Marketing Director, Nuance Communications.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking enables business professionals to enjoy measurable productivity gains by creating documents and emails up to three times faster than manual typing, while also enabling them to surf the Web and to control their entire PC, simply by speaking. Dragon NaturallySpeaking turns speech into text at up to 160 words per minute, with up to 99% accuracy levels. Dragon NaturallySpeaking’s accuracy is indispensible in industries such as legal and healthcare, where document accuracy is vital, and mistakes could have serious, long-lasting consequences. Dragon NaturallySpeaking adds speech recognition to nearly every Microsoft Windows-based application, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Internet Explorer, as well as Corel WordPerfect, FireFox and more.

As the world’s most accurate and best selling desktop speech recognition product for the Windows and Apple operating systems respectively, Dragon NaturallySpeaking and MacSpeech Dictate are used by millions of businesses globally, across industries as diverse as legal, healthcare, education, marketing, design consultancies, media agencies, marketing agencies, professional services, recruitment, human resources and real estate agents. The ‘Speech Recognition: Success @ Work’ competition enables professionals to share how Dragon NaturallySpeaking and MacSpeech Dictate have enabled them win new business, expand their operations, maximise productivity, save money, increase accessibility or optimise customer service.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking and MacSpeech Dictate are multifaceted products that deliver many business benefits that can contribute to an organisation’s success. They can negate the need for expensive transcription services, which drives lower costs. Or, when using them to respond promptly to email queries or requests for information, they can positively impact customers’ perceptions of a business’ responsive approach to customer service and satisfaction. Furthermore, they can help organisations comply with Access to Work regulations, and thus open a door to a talent pool that might typically find use of the keyboard and mouse uncomfortable or problematic. Dragon NaturallySpeaking and MacSpeech Dictate can also help with the rehabilitation of an experienced member of staff who, through an accident or an RSI-related condition, would struggle with keyboard or mouse use.

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