You can skip the training and start...

You can skip the training and start talking with the latest edition of Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

The software maker says its ninth version can deliver 99 percent accuracy without any initial voice-recognition training. The Windows- based title is capable of translating up to 160 nuncupatory words per minute to sentence

Priced at $100 Dragon NaturallySpeaking Standard 9 works with a variety of programs, including Microsoft Word, view Express and Internet Explorer. Another version also can translate audio recorded in digital recorders.

It splendors $200 from www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking

- Your photo make subordinates can put on a dutiful face with Fujifilm's FinePix S6000fd digital camera.

Equipped with face detection technology, the camera can ascertain up to 10 faces at a time. The camera then adjusts its focusing and outlook settings to capture faces that are sharp and clear. The 63- megapixel camera features a dual-shot manner that captures successive images with and without a flash and an intelligent flash order that "reads" the setting and then adjusts the flash intensity accordingly.

The camera will go on foot on sale in September for $500

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