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Dragon Speech Recognition Helping students reach their full potential Dragon speech recognition software allows you to enter text and control your Mac or PC by voice instead of using a keyboard and mouse. Just say words and watch them appear on the computer screen. Tell your Mac or PC what to do and it obeys your commands.
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Dragon speech recognition software is helping to enhance the educational process for students and teachers alike. It has been shown to improve core reading and writing skills for students of all abilities, including those with physical or language-based learning disabilities as well as English Language Learners. Dragon lets students dictate papers and assignments three times faster than typing with up to 99% accuracy. It also lets them control their computer desktop and applications by voice to get more done faster whether they’re sending email, taking notes, doing research on the Web, or creating a presentation. Dragon is widely used in secondary business education and computer applications courses to familiarise students with emerging interfaces. Plus, many teachers rely on the software as a productivity tool to help them manage their overwhelming administrative workload. With all these advantages, it’s no wonder that Dragon is being used in more and more primary, secondary, and post-secondary school today, with great results. -- Improves core reading and rewriting skills for students of all abilities -- Helps students with language-based learning disabilities more easily express themselves in writing
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-- Provides accessibility for teachers and students with physical disabilities that hamper typing -- Bridges English Language Learners’ oral and written communication skills -- Prepares students for emerging interfaces in the 21st century workforce -- Enables teachers to prepare more detailed assessments of student work through dictation
For Students of all Abilities Dragon has been shown to improve reading and writing skills for students of all abilities. Dictation requires students to read aloud, a practice that not only increases oral reading efficiency, but can drive improvements in word recognition and pronunciation as well as reading fluency and comprehension. Since reading aloud is not widely practiced as students progress to middle and high school, Dragon provides a great way to keep students’ oral reading skills sharp. Many teachers are also using Dragon to help reinforce composition skills based on
the “Six Traits of Writing.” Students brainstorm their ideas and content, organize their thoughts, determine their purpose/voice, develop their sentence structure, and apply overall writing mechanics by composing with their voice instead of paper and pencil or a keyboard. For many students this approach yields, better composition, improved grammar skills and expanded use of vocabulary.
For Physically Challenged Students Students with physical disabilities, especially those who don’t have use of their hands for keyboarding, use Dragon for accessibility purposes. It provides greater independence, eliminates the need for a dictation buddy, and helps these students keep pace with their non disabled peers. Dragon’s also a great solution for students suffering from repetitive stress injuries, like carpel tunnel syndrome, that make keyboarding painful, if not impossible.
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For Teachers With Dragon, teachers can read and respond to students’ essays quickly and easily. They can add more comments and detailed notes because they’re not constrained by timeconsuming hand-written feedback, not to mention poor penmanship! With a wireless headset, teachers reviewing assignments and providing dictated feedback are no longer tied so closely to the desk and computer. They can move around as they dictate notes to students or sit back and relax as they add comments to papers.
For Students with Learning Disabilities Students with certain learning disabilities, especially those with language-based learning disabilities like dyslexia and working memory issues, use Dragon to help them with writing by taking the focus off the mechanics of composition, spelling, sentence structure, etc. so it’s easier to transfer ideas into written words.
For English Language Learners (ELLs) Research has shown that ELLs, also known as emergent bilinguals, can benefit from using Dragon to harness their oral English skills to advance their academic writing. Studies have also shown that Dragon can support ELLs with note taking, paraphrasing, fluency, word comprehension, and pronunciation – skills that can help drive academic success.
For Business Education Students Dragon is being integrated into traditional middle school, secondary and post-secondary business courses across the UK to prepare students for the 21st century workplace. Dragon is the perfect speech input technology choice for business education curriculum because it’s remarkably easy to learn; it’s highly accurate for the vast majority of speakers; it’s a proven student productivity tool; and it’s available in many languages.
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“Performance is outstanding and recognition speed is virtually instantaneous. In my experience, the recognition accuracy in Dragon 11.5 is so improved that I only need look at my dictation when I mispronounce a word.” - Steve Smith
Dragon Dictate 2.5, Educational (single user Mac) RRP £124.99 ex | £149.99 inc | 94579
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Professional Education (single user PC) RRP £297.02 ex | £356.42 inc | 94569
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Nuance Education Licensing | www.cancomuk.com | 01483 500 568
Nuance Volume Licensing Nuance offers educators the opportunity to take advantage of the advanced features and network deployment benefits of their top of the range professional software with an education volume licence program that is specially designed to suit the requirements of staff and students in every qualifying organisation, university, college or school. Dragon Classroom Packs and The Dragon Schools Licence: The Dragon Classroom Pack delivers great value for schools and includes licensing for up to 5 installations (for usage by an unlimited number of school users) of either Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional for PC or Dragon Dictate for Mac plus the necessary software media. The Dragon Schools Licence offers exceptional value, allowing for up to 100 installations of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional and Dragon Dictate - enabling schools to mix and match PC and Mac solutions as required. Both options come with a Dragon Education Support Pack.
Speech and Imaging Higher Education Licensing: Their Higher Education licensing options have been designed to offer the highest levels of flexibility and value whilst taking into account the differing usage requirements of
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each technology. Dragon speech recognition titles are available as 5, 10 and 25 packs suiting the localised requirements of speech technologies, whereas PDF Enterprise and PDF and Imaging Suite licences are available as full site-wide licences covering the entire institution simplifying installation, reporting and software asset management of core technologies.
Save over £8000 when you buy the 100 user school licence! Dragon Dictate Schools Licence (Max 100 users, Mac / PC mix) £895 ex | £1074 inc | 72573
Volume licensing
SRP ex VAT
Schools - Speech Licensing NaturallySpeaking Professional Classroom Pack (max 5 installations)
£499
Dragon Dictate for Mac Classroom Pack (max 5 installations)
£499
Dragon Schools Licence (max 100 installations, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional and/ or Dragon Dictate)
£895
University / Higher Education – SPEECH LICENSING Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional HE 5 Pack
£1395
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional HE 10 Pack
£2495
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional HE 25 Pack
£5495
Dragon Dictate for Mac HE 5 Pack
£595
Dragon Dictate for Mac HE 10 Pack
£1145
Dragon Dictate for Mac HE 25 Pack
£2495
UNIVERSITY / HIGHER EDUCATION – IMAGING LICENSING PDF Enterprise HE Site Licence
£3495
PDF & Imaging Suite HE Site Licence (PDF Enterprise & OmiPage Professional & PaperPort Professional)
£4995
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Nuance Products | www.cancomuk.com | 01483 500 568
Nuance product range Dragon Dictate for Mac - Education Dragon Dictate for education has gained broad acceptance as a costeffective accessibility tool for students with physical disabilities. In computer labs and classrooms across the country, speech recognition software is increasingly becoming a productivity tool for students of all abilities. RRP £124.99 ex | £149.99 inc | 94579
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional - Education Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 Professional is enterprise-ready speech recognition software that lets users interact with PCs by voice - three times faster than typing - to drive productivity and cost savings. Use Windows applications to create documents, send email, search the Web and more - just by talking. RRP £297.02 ex | £356.42 inc | 94569
PDF Converter PDF Converter for Mac, the better choice for anyone working with PDF, features industry-standard PDF viewing, editing and creation. It also features the world’s most accurate PDF conversion to editable formats using OmniPage technology so you can unlock information in PDF documents. Available for higher and further education only. Please call for latest pricing.
Omnipage As a leading document imaging solution, OmniPage is the fastest and most precise way to convert documents into editable digital content that looks and acts just like an original digital document complete with columns, colours, pictures and graphics. There is a version of OmniPage designed to handle every document conversion and OCR need from the home office to high volume business processes. Available for higher and further education only. Please call for latest pricing.
PaperPort PaperPort is the most productive and cost-effective way to scan, organise, find, and share scanned paper, files, and photos. PaperPort delivers anytimeanywhere access to files in the cloud. It also combines the efficiency of document management, the convenience of perfectly scanned document, and the power of PDF document creation – all in one easy-to-use application. Available for higher and further education only. Please call for latest pricing.
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Testimonials “I use Dragon to correct college student assignments. It allows me to quickly address corrections and recommendations to the writer in a comfortable and easy manner. When correcting papers one tends to use very limited explanations to the writer, but with Dragon one can easily explain complex ideas and elaborate issues very easily. I have influenced many faculty to use it and especially those that are doing research and writing books.” - Teacher
“Dragon has absolutely changed my life! I am what you might call a cyber professor, I teach Humanities and Anthropology to students around the world entirely online. In order to make a living this way, I have to teach a lot of classes. With the volume of students I teach, I read a lot of emails, mark a lot of essays and facilitate many discussion boards every week. When my classroom-based colleagues ask me what my secret is, I tell them quite simply that it’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Dragon allows me to effectively and efficiently provide my students with the attention and feedback they deserve. It works with all of my learning management systems, and I can navigate the web with ease.”
“Our sons dyslexia was frustrating and his dysgraphia made handwriting extremely difficult and exhausting. It took a bit of practice and he was frustrated when the Dragon didn’t understand him to start with, but he has now been able to write wonderfully imaginative stories with the help of the Dragon, as well as complete other projects in school.” - Parent
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Apple | www.cancomuk.com | 01483 500 568
Apple in Education - unleashing pupils’ productivity and creativity With the Mac, pupils have a robust set of learning tools at their fingertips. They can communicate and collaborate with each other; connect to external devices such as cameras, scientific probes or projectors; and copy their work onto CDs or DVDs. With included software, such as the award-winning iLife digital authoring suite, students can express themselves by creating movies, photo books, music, websites and podcasts; manage their calendars and to-do lists; access a graphing calculator; and much more. These innovative Apple solutions foster the development of the creative and critical thinking skills which are so important for today’s learners.
iPad | from £387 With a large Multi-Touch screen and thousands of apps available, iPad lets you learn and play like never before. With loads of great features, like the large, Multi-Touch display, the ability to carry an entire library with you, and access to thousands of educational apps, an iPad is the perfect choice for your studies. iPad 16GB Wi-Fi - £322 ex | £387 inc | 71346
MacBook - the notebook for everyone | from £792 Features next-generation NVIDIA graphics, a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of memory. That means MacBook can tackle any homework assignment, and with outstanding battery life of up to 7 hours, you can stay productive wherever you go. MacBook - £660 ex | £792 inc | 73111 (institutions only)
iMac - the ultimate all-in-one | from £883 The new iMac features next-generation quad-core processors and the fastest graphics ever in an all-in-one computer. It also brings Thunderbolt I/O technology for lightning-fast data transfer, and new FaceTime HD camera to make full-screen HD video calls, all from a beautiful widescreen LED-backlit display. iMac 21.5”, 3.06GHz i3 - £736 ex | £883 inc | 73077 (institutions only)
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Cancom | www.cancomuk.com | 01483 500 568
Cancom - experts in education solutions Cancom specialise in education solutions, professional services and on-site maintenance contracts. We have many years of experience in working with Schools, Colleges and Universities. Our Apple certified team focuses on providing high quality customer service, robust installations and competitive prices. Working with Cancom Education means your school, college or university will always be at the forefront of learning technology. We pride ourselves on supplying professional solutions and training, and only work with top brands such as Apple, Adobe and Microsoft to provide highly cost effective solutions for every classroom.
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