Nuance PowerMic III handheld-

Dragon Ratings: 6 Dragons

The perfect handheld microphone to use with Dragon Medical 2.0/3.0/3.2:

This is a very high quality microphone - designed for the professional - and with a number of unique features making it highly convenient and accurate with speech recognition software and particularly well suited for use with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. The PowerMic III microphone offers simplified single-handed, thumb-control operation for dictating, navigating, reviewing, and editing speech recognition generated documentation.

This microphone integrates seamlessly with Dragon Medical Practice 2.0 or 3.2. Integration with Dragon Medical 2.0 or 3.2 is particularly rich and allows use of microphone button to accomplish a series of functions.

Features:

• Hand-held
• High accuracy
• Reasonably good noise cancellation
• Programmable buttons
• Excellent ergonomics
• Designed for integrated use with Dragon Medical                                               
• USB interface with PC
• No need for drivers.

Comments: This is a unique and highly functional microphone. In our testing it appears to be more accurate and more noise canceling than the otherwise similar Philips SpeechMic. In addition to its comfort, convenience, and excellent acoustic properties, a unique aspect of this microphone is its integration with the MEDICAL version of Dragon 2.0 /3.0 /3.2. See additional notes below on compatibility. Special note for non-Medical users: this microphone has full functionality, and in particular the ability to program the individual buttons, only in the Medical version of Dragon version 2.0 /3.0 /3.2.