Any Physicians Using Macs?
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From: Mark Conrad on 29 Jun 2010 15:05 If so, in 36 short hours the cost of Dragon medical will go from $1,600 (USD) all the way up to $2,200 I received mine at the (present) price, yesterday. I run it on a MacBook Pro. (Boot Camp partition) No increase in features naturally, just a price increase Nuance effectively controls the speech recognition market world-wide. The "Small Practice" edition will also be affected. Mark-
From: Steve Firth on 29 Jun 2010 17:39 Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> wrote: > If so, in 36 short hours the cost of Dragon medical > will go from $1,600 (USD) all the way up to $2,200 No one cares.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 29 Jun 2010 17:56 On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:05:48 -0700, Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> wrote: > >If so, in 36 short hours the cost of Dragon medical >will go from $1,600 (USD) all the way up to $2,200 No justification, just monopololistic gouging? Ace. There are other voice rec engines coming through these days, by the way. My company does a fair bit of IVR work, and I'd expect various others to be dipping their toes in the retail market relatively soon. Cheers - Jaimie (why does gouge look like it's spelt wrong?) -- "Don't drag me down to your level, meat." -- Red Robot #C-63
From: Rowland McDonnell on 29 Jun 2010 18:19 Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> wrote: > If so, in 36 short hours the cost of Dragon medical > will go from $1,600 (USD) all the way up to $2,200 > > I received mine at the (present) price, yesterday. > > I run it on a MacBook Pro. (Boot Camp partition) > > > No increase in features naturally, just a price increase > > Nuance effectively controls the speech recognition > market world-wide. > > The "Small Practice" edition will also be affected. It occurs to me that while this price increase is an outrageous example of a monopoly provider abusing its position: it's still cheaper than having a secretarial type following you around taking dictation. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: James Jolley on 29 Jun 2010 18:42
On 2010-06-29 22:39:05 +0100, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) said: > Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> wrote: > >> If so, in 36 short hours the cost of Dragon medical >> will go from $1,600 (USD) all the way up to $2,200 > > No one cares. True enough and this is obviously troll bating on his part, giving american currencies. Oh and Steve, watch out for McFucktard, he's off on one again. |