BACN Bits & Bytes segment from September 2013: Michael North explains how Dragon Naturally Speaking saves him 12 hours per week.

1. Or How I got back 12 hours a month and
learned to love the computer again

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I have to create one 9 page report a month
I give advice via email once or twice a day
I answer lots of various emails every day
I have learned to not love my computer anymore

3. • Dragon took me 15 hours to get good at it.
• It was faster than typing after 1 hour.
• You still have to insert punctuation and still speak
punctuation in. You get over that quickly.
• I would never use it for anything but emails and
reports.

4. • My 9 page report is now 12 pages and I complete it
in 40% of the time.
• I only use Dragon on emails longer than a page to
reply but what a time saver when I do.
• It frees up my mind to think more as I type. This is the
biggest benefit so far.
• I really do save 12 hours a month of typing every
month, sometimes more.

5. • You really do save time from the start.
• You easily save 40% on anything longer than a
page of text and the longer it is, the more you will
save.
• I really do have 12 hours a month of time I did not
used to have.
• NOTHING I have ever added as an app, tool,
upgrade or whatever made as big an impact