The good: Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 8 features intuitive voice commands, impressive command-driven typing and mousing capabilities, handy transcription tools, accurate voice recognition, and support for PDAs.

The bad: Dragon has large memory requirements, isn't Mac compatible, and requires a steep voice-command learning curve; in addition, tech support is costly.

The bottom line: Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 8 does a great job of letting you take care of most computing needs with voice commands instead of the keyboard--a godsend for those who suffer from repetitive stress injuries.

Specs: License qty: 1 user; License type: Complete package; Min Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP1 or later, Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1 or later  See full specs >>