![]() ![]() The Mac developer has programmers that are no where close to the PC version’s capability. The Dragon 2.0 for Mac is from a different developer. I used it all the way up to Dragon 12 on PCs. An amazing ability but that is why I went to Dragon Ver 3. Via voice had many “commands” that would close the program while talking without saving. I conduct 500 reports a year, which means 3 to 4 hours per day dictating. I have used the dictating programs for over 12 years. Your article doesn’t sound true at all from an experienced Via Voice, and Dragon user. ![]() I am hoping this will improve with Dragon Dictate 3 – whenever that happens – and that people who wasted their money on Dictate 2.5 will be offered a free upgrade. Given that Dragon Dictate 2.5 costs more the DNS 11, for significantly less functionality, I can only declare it a complete waste of money. Given the extent to which I use DNS I am seriously revaluating my migration to Mac and feel I have complete wasted my money on Dragon Dictate. I am now using DNS 11 again with Word for PC and Outlook for PC, through Parallels for my longer emails and text documents. I just want to dictate to spell to correct and to edit with ease both orally and on the keyboard – whichever suits my purpose at the time.ĭragon Dictate is a long way short of DNS. I do not wish to control my computer through oral commands and I don’t want to have to learn a plethora of additional Dragon Commands. Given that its ability to correct, spell and modify dictated text is very limited and cumbersome compared to DNS, I find myself frequently returning to the keyboard and finding it sends Dragon Dictate into a SuperNova. It has a “Golden Rule” that you should alternate between typing and dictating. I recently migrated from PC to Mac and bought Dragon Dictate 2.5. I am a long term user of Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 which I have found excellent. What Microphone is the best for Speech recognition?.How to buy Macspeech Dictate in Australia.Dragon Naturally Speaking arrives on the Macintosh!. ![]() Dragon Dictate (Dragon Naturally Speaking v11) on the Mac.Dragon Dictate Version 4 vs 3 – is it worth the upgrade?.NEW: ‘Dragon for Mac’ (Dragon Dictate 5) Review.Note to Australian Customers: you don’t need to select the ‘international language version’, just the normal US version comes with Australian and UK speech files. There is a ‘download only’ option which is great for international customers but you’ll need to find your own microphone. If you live in the USA it is available directly from Nuance (Macspeech):Ĭlick here to go to the Official Dragon site. At the very least find a friend who has a copy and give it a trial! That’s what I did and I was hooked. I use it every day, and I’d totally recommend that you try it out if you do a lot of typing or transcription work. Dragon Dictate is in my opinion still slightly behind the PC version. There must be some difference between the way Dragon Naturally Speaking and Macspeech Dictate handle the retraining of words. With Dragon Naturally Speaking if I retrained a word it would never mistake it again. There are a few (small) weaknesses, the main one being that the correction and editing is not quite as good as with the PC version. €˜At the core of MacSpeech Dictate is the world-renowned speech recognition engine, Dragon NaturallySpeaking.’įor those who have been limping along with iListen or Via Voice – you won’t believe the difference! The latest version – Dragon Dictate 2.0 – achieves almost full accuracy with just 5-6 minutes of training. It is now up to version 2.0 which has been renamed ‘Dragon Dictate’. So personally it’s been a 10 year wait for Dragon Naturally Speaking to arrive on the Macintosh – but finally it’s here! After using Macspeech Dictate since it’s release 2 years ago, I can say Macspeech Dictate is far and away the best dictation software for the Mac. Viavoice wasn’t as good as Dragon Naturally Speaking but it did the job (and meant I could get rid of the PC!) I used ViaVoice for the next 6 years. Not long after that, IBM released Viavoice for the Mac. I would dictate to the PC and then copy files to my Mac on a thumb drive!ĭragon Naturally Speaking was by far the best voice recognition software – but sadly it was not available for the Apple platform. I’ve been waiting for almost 10 years for Dragon Naturally Speaking to arrive on the Macintosh! And finally it’s here – Dragon Dictate.ĭespite being a long time Apple user user, in 1999 I purchased a PC (yes that’s right!) just to run Dragon Naturally Speaking. ![]()
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