About Us

Jim Bendewald is the owner of CompuTALK, based in Madison Wisconsin, which has been in business since 1992 and the speech recognition business since 1995.  It began when a couple of disabled clients wanted speech recognition.  Jim started as a reseller for  Kolvox which sold the Kurzweil speech engine.  In those days speech recognition was all "discrete speech" meaning one word at a time.  It was slow and produced many errors.  But discrete speech was still an excellent tool for those with disabilities.  

About a year later Jim became a reseller for IBM ViaVoice and became a Dragon dealer in 1997.  In 1998 Dragon came out with the first continuous speech recognition program.  It did not have the full-featured capability of Dragon Dictate but the accuracy was radically improved.  

CompuTALK is currently selling and supporting Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.  It is the most advanced, powerful and accurate program ever.  Jim provides training and technical support for businesses and individuals around the country using over-the-internet training.  New this year is the training SpeakEASY DVD for saving time and money. 

One area of specialty is creating custom macros specific for the client's needs.  Custom macros help the user to make NaturallySpeaking the most productive tool on their computer.  Jim also has the CompuTALK Custom Macros which is a collection of general macros that are easy to remember and fast to execute.  

Jim has written two booklets called QuickNotes and QuickMacros.  QuickNotes lists standard commands built into Dragon NaturallySpeaking.  QuickMacros provides directions (with screenshots) for how to build ones own custom macros.  These booklets help users be more productive while using Dragon NaturallySpeaking.  CompuTALK remains committed to serving its customers with care and professionalism.  

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