You frequently become frustrated by typing — you can't type the words as fast as you're thinking them and staring at a blank page tends to make you forget what you wanted to say. You're not a fan of spelling, or you simply dislike the inconvenience of having to sit at a desk in front of a screen. Yet there are parts of everyday life that make typing a necessity, whether it's for work, school or correspondence with friends and family. By taking typing out of the equation and bringing in the ability to speak what you need written out, then productivity, creativity and speed in which you complete your tasks increase. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 does exactly that — takes your spoken words and translates them into written text with speed and accuracy.With this software, you can turn you speech into text and get your work done up to three times faster than typing. Use Dragon to compose and send e-mail, search the Web, save files, switch windows, launch applications, control your PC and more using only spoken words. Stop contending with the hassle of typing and use Naturally Speaking on many of your everyday Web and Windows applications, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, Corel WordPerfect, Microsoft Outlook and Windows LiveMail. You can even use speech to write and send e-mails through Gmail and Hotmail. With greater accuracy than ever before, Dragon can be customized with smart format rules that recognize your commonly used abbreviations, acronyms, phrases, proper names and much more so that your document always turns out exactly how you want. So put on the included noise-canceling headset microphone and get to work. You're about to accomplish all of your typing without ever touching the keyboard.