Mature student looking at productivity software for medical school/ career. in the uk

Poseidon8490 · April 20

Hi so i am very outdated and have been making life very hard for myself. I have Good hardware for gaming 5900, 2070 and corsair 7.1 wireless headphones now is the time to put it to work. I'm looking at Dragon Professional and before I pull the trigger looking for feedback. Currently, I'm on a nurse associate foundation degree. depending on where I go next I'm looking at 2-5 years of additional schooling with a dissertation and ending on a masters (needed to specialise in medicine) so I want the software to last I will want to put in chemical formulas and display things like blood pressures in the correct format, i also want it to do emails and other day to day tasks as well. I'm prepared to pay what is needed here. My main worrie is the licences when this pc gets a motherboard cpu update in the future. Looking at the dragon store, I don't see a option to buy a medical Dragon One software package in the UK. I'm fed up of minimal wage in my mid-30s so lets hear what everyone is doing i cant keep working like it's the early 200'0s here.

LogicalDrm · April 20

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So you are looking for speech recognition software? Because "productivity" is category of products. For example, OneNote falls into that category as it increases productivity. So you need to be more specific about the features you are after if you want recommendations.

As for you worry about licenses. There are usually 3 types of licenses. Ones that lock with account (can be both subscription and lifetime), ones that are activated from server and ones that are activated locally (lock into mobo/hardware). Dragon Professional has server activation. So when you activate it, it checks whether license is real and free to be used. According to their support sites, you can free license by uninstalling software while connected to internet. If there would be the case where you PC just dies or gets stolen etc. support can deactivate it for you. I have done that once with another software. Just show them proof of purchase.

E: $300 for license is also really hefty price for a student. Not gonna judge you on it. But I recommend you think whether getting dictation software while working on degree is worth it for your studies and future career.

Edited April 20 by LogicalDrm

Poseidon8490 · April 20

1 hour ago, LogicalDrm said:

E: $300 for license is also really hefty price for a student. Not gonna judge you on it. But I recommend you think whether getting dictation software while working on degree is worth it for your studies and future career.

Thank you for moving it. It's actually £679.00 so 840usd. I can afford it its whether it is worth it is the bigger question, and if anyone on here is using any other alternatives to Dragon. I've just used the dictation software on Word for the first time, it's a game changer. 1'4 of the way through the word count in less than 5 minutes.

I am definitely looking at speech recognition software. also interested in any other software that could massively speed up workflow as well. Features I want are auto-grammar and a good dictionary for medical terminology. if i could like some sort of software for Harvard referencing would be a bonus as well as paraphrasing.

LogicalDrm · April 20

22 minutes ago, Poseidon8490 said:

Thank you for moving it. It's actually £679.00 so 840usd.

https://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/Custom/pbPage.dragonProINDV-learnMore This is what I saw since I was also seeing that higher price and "volume pack" next to it. Up to 9 users I think. So if you could get others to get same, it would get really cheap really fast.