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I watch The Science Channel quite often, every single day. I work late hours and usually catch re-runs of shows I missed, and see a lot of commercials for Science Channel shows. I don't mind those. What I DO mind is the seemingly never ending Dragon Naturally Speaking Speech Recognition software commercials. I get annoyed from the first SIGHT of that commercial. They keep talking and and talking and talking, about the SAME. DAMN. THING. I have NEVER been so annoyed that I'd look up somewhere to complain about a commercial before, until this.
I'm surprised this complaint got as many replies as it did. I posted this in July of 2011 and it's now April 2012 and the commercial has changed, but it's STILL way. TOO. LOOOOOOOONG! It's also funny that when you type in dragon commercial, "dragon commercial too long" comes up and this is the first result. Discovery should really take note of this already.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
I agree that this commercial is too long. To redundant and just on too much. I often turn the channel or mute the t.v when it comes on. I was amused to read the other comments others left about this commercial and the spokeswoman on it and about her hair. So I looked her up. Her name is Kate Paulsen. Her profile is on http://neactor.com/profile/KatePaulsen
I love the kid "it's like a puzzle I can't put together". The grandmother looks like a tired out worn wash cloth. Just gotta love the crime scene investigator "if it can understand this Texas accent if can understand anyone".
Most annoying commercial! Buy the way Dragon. I would never buy this product because of a cheap, lame commercial. Here are stations that have interesting programs, and they have to fund the programming by a horrible commercial.
Change the channel!
I hate this Dragon commercial so much that I change the channel and usually never return!
I tried to use Dragon Speak this morning only to find I needed an upgrade. But, after 4 attempts it would not upgrade and I could not use Dragon Speak. I tried everything I know and still could not get it to work. So I uninstalled it and tried to run an older version, that didn't work either. I have been a long time customer, started with Dragon 6, but no more. I would not in good faith recommend this product.
Try transcribing for Nuance--the parent company--if you'd like to see just how effective the software is. Dragon may be able to understand a thick Texan accent but it sure as hell can't understand one from the Midwest. It understands a myriad of other accents, SOMETIMES, but it never will autocorrect (or "become accustomed to the way you speak"), no matter how many reports I hear from the same dictator. Although, that statement is partially true because it DOES change the wrong recognition--just never to the correct words. When the Michigan-born dictator says, "S1, S2 audible" and Dragon hears "S1, Thomas", you can be sure there are fundamental programming problems--ones that go far beyond the piss-poor production company they hired to make that fast-talking, multi-tasking mom look like she died several decades ago!
Thank god for remote controls, Would never buy this crap because the commercial pizz&&ed me off, and somebody get that girl a hair stylist, she is about as homely as they come...
Thank you for all your wonderful posts. My wife thought I was crazy about how I couldn't stand their latest commercial with the emaciated, bad jeans wearing alien. I now find myself in good company.
Scott
not only that, but start researching this Nuance menace a little more. If your company has anything to do with speech recognition they will buy your company before it really gets going or if you refuse on the moral reasoning of "I should be able to be in this market too", drown you with legal fees until it's bankrupt. And because of how software patents work in the US, they essentially patent the problem to be solved (not just the solution). They don't patent Dragon Speak blah blah implementation, they patent FCKING Speech Recognition. they now own speech recognition and can take legal action against you for opposing Nuance. Eli Whitney didn't patent cotton picking, he patented the cotton gin. in fact he was required to show exactly how it works. Nuance can just patent speech recognition and the government will take their word for it because they policies aren't computer literate enough to understand it anyways. On top of that they don't have to develop speech recognition any more than from 20 years ago because their strategy disallows competition. If Eli Whitney could've done that we'd still be using cotton gins to this day, guarantee it.
I completely agree. I would never buy this software simply due to the most annoying commercial I've ever seen. And it just goes on and on and on. Every time it starts its time to change the channel.
OH MY FRIGGING GOLLY GEE...it is holiday time and those damn Dragon 5+ minute late night commercial is starting to come back!
for the last few years I simply had to stop watching Discovery ID and a few of the other shows because of the ABUSE of that commercial. It ranks way above the crappy commercials that use a doorbell when they don't have to use a frigging doorbell...but I digress. DRAGON will never, and I say NEVER get a dollar from me even IF I needed to use their software. I would quit a job IF they required me to use their software...that's how bad the hate is for the abusive commercials they use. IF I fall asleep while TV is on, guess what wakes me up? DRAGON commercial! And I get so damned pissed off that I will then start timing the remaining part of the commercial. It was over 5 mins long! Must have been more before I woke up, got pissed and grabbed my iphone to time the abuser.
I complained to Dragon for the last 3 years when the holiday blitz starts and I hope each year they will listen to consumers complaint and make a commercial short and sweet, but noooooooooooo. I stopped watching discovery ID for a couple of years and just started watching again for a few months. Looks like I will have to stop watching it again till the commercials stop.
I don't know if the Science Channel or Discovery ID runs these commercials anymore BECAUSE I don't watch any of the channels that abused us with the Dragon Software commercials. Just said NO MORE. I don't even know if there is a Science Channel or Discovery ID anymore. I'm being serious. I have not watched anything on those channels since 2016. The Christmas season of abusive ads broke me. I only mention this fact in hopes that these cable companies realize they have gone too far.
I have misplaced my disc for Dragon Naturally Speaking Premium 13. I called the company to see if it was possible to get a download of the program with the product key I have. The man on the other end was outright obnoxious toward me.. If I would ever encounter him on the street I'd squash him like the insect he is. I have essential tremors and need the software for when i am seriously shaking. However I will now be looking elsewhere and if i do find my disc I won't use it. Instead I will shove it up that idiot's back side.