Of all the high-tech fantasies the sci-fi movies have tantalized its escapist audiences with, surely that bit about giving your computer spoken orders is one of the most alluring. Ever since “Star Trek,” we’ve dreamed of being able to say, “Computer: display all known sources of dilithium crystals in the Kraxon Nebula!”

So far, the closest we can get is strapping on a headset and dictating, using a program like Dragon NaturallySpeaking to do the typing. that software

is great for anyone who can’t type or doesn’t like to. And it does lets you speak the names of menu commands and “click” hyperlinks on a Web page. But that’s not the same as telling the computer what to do in conversational language.

NaturallySpeaking 10, available Thursday, takes some baby steps in the right direction. It doesn’t turn your computer into the “Star Trek” mainframe; you can’t tell it, for example, […]

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