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9000US dollars at launch
DragonDictate, launched in 1990, cost $9,000 as a system of software and a speech recognition board.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The $9,000 system consists of software and a speech recognition board”
U.S. Company Introduces First Speech 'Typewriter', Deseret News, Deseret News, 1990, Paragraph on the hardware and price.
Open the original- What it measures
- The price was for the system only. The same report says it needed an IBM PC AT compatible computer with eight megabytes of RAM and an Intel 80386 processor.
- What it does not show
- A 1990 price in US dollars, not a current price. It does not include the computer the system ran on.