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Of course, if the founders of Dragon Systems had been reluctant to face long odds, they might never have set out to turn an ordinary personal computer into the modern equivalent of a 1950's steno pool.

Google: The tech giant agreed to a record $391.5 million privacy settlement with a 40-state coalition of attorneys general for charges that it misled users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings even as the company continued collecting that information.

Meta: The parent of Facebook said it was laying off more than 11,000 people, or about 13 percent of its work force.

Amazon: The company appears set to lay off approximately 10,000 people in corporate and technology jobs, in what would be the largest cuts in the company’s history.

Now, that plant is getting help from an unlikely source: the Chinese government.

Apple: Apple’s largest iPhone factory, in the city of Zhengzhou, China, is dealing with a shortage of workers.

Microsoft alone could change the rules by simply knitting speech technology into future versions of its ubiquitous Windows operating system. What Dragon Systems has besides balance-sheet strength and good products, is a young and extremely fluid market niche that it already shares with big scary competitors like I.B.M., Royal Philips Electronics N.V. And one cannot gauge the success of an initial public offering by the testimonials of injured journalists. Ask folks who still have a Sony Betamax in the closet.

In fact, I now find it so much faster to dictate an article than to type it that I would continue to use Dragon's product even if typing were once again a pain-free option.īut great products do not always add up to great investments.

As a result, this column (and everything else I have written over the last year, from personal letters to a nearly finished book) was written with the help of the company's Dragon Naturally Speaking software, which converts words spoken conversationally into a computer's microphone into words typed on the computer's screen.

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In the interest of full disclosure: Early in 1997, I was hit with a mild but stubborn case of carpal tunnel syndrome that continues to make long typing sessions painful. Its two 50-something founders can remember when computers filled entire rooms, not just entire briefcases.

#Dragon dictate for pc software

Dragon Systems, a developer of speech-recognition software in Newton, Mass., that is scheduled to sell shares to the public sometime in the next few weeks, is not your typical software debutante.