If you have purchase Dragon NaturallySpeaking and are having some troubles with the product, then here are some resources that you can turn to.

Dragon Systems Technical Support

You can write to Dragon Systems technical support for help by sending e-mail to support@dragonsys.com.  Dragon has a special technical support department which is dedicated to answering your queries via e-mail.  However, the e-mail load is often very large, so it may take a couple of days for them to get back to.

Here are some tips which will help Dragon's technical support help you:
 

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If you have gotten previous communications from Dragon, then make sure you quote any correspondence which Dragon has sent to you in your message to Dragon.

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Make sure that you add your name and return e-mail address to your e-mail.

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If you cannot get Dragon NaturallySpeaking to run at all, then make sure the subject of your message indicates that Dragon NaturallySpeaking does not run and you are stuck.

Voice-Users Mailing List

There is a mailing list where a number of users of voice recognition systems exchange information.  You can sign up for the mailing list at the following web address http://voicerecognition.com/voice-users/.

If you subscribe to the mailing list, then you will be sent e-mail every time somebody submits information to the mailing list.  I recommend that you actually sign up for the Digest form which will limit the amount of e-mail you get to one or two per day containing a summary of all of the correspondence.  If you subscribe to the mailing list but not the Digest form, then be prepared to receive between 10 and 30 e-mails per day from users of the voice-users mailing list.

Submitters to the voice-users mailing list include users of Dragon NaturallySpeaking and other products.  The people who monitor the list are very knowledgeable and you can often get answers to your questions by submitting them to the voice-users mailing list.

Comp.Speech

There is an Internet newsgroup called comp.speech where some people ask questions about Dragon NaturallySpeaking.  If you post a message to this newsgroup, then you may get an answer to your query from other users of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Comp.speech is a standard newsgroup which most Internet providers should carry.