There has been a lot to confusion about Dragon's announcement that it will now support dictation directly into Corel WordPerfect, and the corresponding announcement about legal editions of products from both Dragon Systems and Corel. I will attempt to clear up some of the confusion here.
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| First of all, Dragon Systems has developed code which allows you to dictate directly into Corel WordPerfect with all of Dragon NaturallySpeaking's award-winning error correction and other features. When you dictate directly into WordPerfect, your experience is very similar to that of dictating directly into Dragon NaturallySpeaking's own editor. This code is working and should be available to the general public within a few days. |
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| In order to use the code which Dragon Systems has developed for WordPerfect, you must use a modified version of WordPerfect called Rev D. Corel has a patch for the WordPerfect Suite called "Service Patch 3" which will bring WordPerfect up to Rev D. (There are other things inside of this patch besides support for Dragon NaturallySpeaking.) |
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| Unfortunately, Dragon Systems is not authorized to distribute Service Patch 3. Instead, Dragon Systems has to wait for Corel to release Service Patch 3 before Dragon Systems own code becomes useful. |
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| I believe that Corel is very close to putting Service Patch the rate on their web site. And as soon as they put that code on their web site, I expect Dragon will respond by putting the code which supports WordPerfect on Dragon's Web site. This should allow existing customers of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred Edition and Deluxe Edition to use WordPerfect. |
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| And other point of confusion has been the use of the term NaturalWord. Dragon Systems is actually change the definition of "NaturalWord" to mean integration directly with word processors. At the present time, NaturalWord include support for both WordPerfect and Microsoft Word. This means that when you get NaturalWord in the future, you will beginning support for both Microsoft Word and WordPerfect at the same time. |
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| Earlier (and probably in other places on the site) I still refer to NaturalWord as support only for Microsoft Word 97, and treat the support for WordPerfect as a separate add-on. But from now on the two will be inseparable. |
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| The final point of confusion is in the announcement of various legal versions of products.initially, when Dragon Systems and Corel announce their partnership, they indicated that Dragon NaturallySpeaking would be bundled with the new legal version of the WordPerfect suite. One week later, Dragon Systems and Corel announced that Dragon NaturallySpeaking would be bundled with all editions of the WordPerfect suite, including but not limited to the legal edition of the WordPerfect suite. |
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| The legal edition of the WordPerfect suite is a product from Corel. It includes WordPerfect and other programs some of which are specific to the legal marketplace. Besides the fact that Corel is bundling Dragon NaturallySpeaking with this product, Dragon has no direct involvement with the legal addition of the WordPerfect suite. |
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| (By the way, all Corel product which include Dragon NaturallySpeaking include Dragon NaturallySpeaking Personal Edition only.) |
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| Then, a week or two ago, Dragon Systems announced its own legal product. Dragon's legal product is unrelated to Corel's legal product. Basically, Dragon's legal product is the Deluxe Edition Dragon NaturallySpeaking with a special vocabulary designed for the legal marketplace. There may also be some other features in the legal edition of Dragon NaturallySpeaking of which I am unaware. As soon as I know more, I will let you know. |
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| (1) Support for WordPerfect should be available on Dragon web page very soon, as soon as Corel puts their own Service Patch 3 on their site. |
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| (2) NaturalWord net refers to both support for Microsoft Word and support for WordPerfect. |
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| (3) There are two different legal products, one from Corel and one from Dragon Systems and they are not related. |
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