Carl2:
You are right about multiple installs. My Dragon 10 manual says that copies may be installed on multiple computers, for a single user (for instance, on a laptop and a desktop, or at home and at work), but cannot be used simultaneously. If more than one user profile is required, a separate license is required for each user.
Will:
Dragon has some very specific system requirements. When I bought mine, it wouldn't work on any of my computers, because it required a processor with an SSE2 instruction set. I had to actually buy a refurbished Pentium that had SSE2, just so I could use Dragon 10.
I now have a new Desktop and laptop, both with Windows 7. But I haven't installed Dragon or Hal on either of them yet, because I'm waiting for the next release of Hal before I tackle it. Which leads me to Art's comment...
Art:
Yes, the windows 7 speech recognition does seem pretty good! When I first got my new laptop, I played with the voice recognition for a while, using my Logitech USB headset, and I was quite impressed with it's accuracy. But since I haven't put Hal on Win7, I've yet to test it.
I had read some opinions that Dragon is still more accurate, but I don't know from experience. Has anyone reading this had a lot of experience using the Win 7 speech recognition with Hal? Can anyone say how Windows 7 SR compares to Dragon 10, while using Hal? It would be really interesting to hear about the comparison when using Hal.
- Chaz