DESC: Dragon NaturallySpeaking Essentials is the ideal, affordable introduction to continuous speech recognition for users age 9 and older. It's powerful, fast, fun, and accurate, yet easy to use. Initial training can be completed in only a few minutes. To dictate into virtually any Windows application, simply click on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking button to load the program, and then click on the microphone icon. Now speak naturally into the included headset microphone at up to 160 words per minute. Your words appear immediately in e-mail, word processing documents, Internet chat rooms, and Instant Messaging programs - you can even navigate the Internet by voice!