Category: dragon
Dragon Naturally Speaking – keeping it going with Catalina
I am starting an FAQ about dragon for users who would like to keep their current version of Dragon going for as long as they can. (Dragon have closed down all their technical support, including their old forums.) Read on for details.
How to dictate a new line using Google assistant dictation
Now that dragon speech recognition is no longer available on Macintosh computers I have not been able to find a good dictation solution for OSX. Built-in Apple dictation is woeful and Siri is not great. So my go-to solution for dictating emails is to use Google assistant on my Android phone. The main problem I…
Fixing the ‘Scratch That’ and ‘Correct That’ bug in Dragon and High Sierra
SUMMARY: Dragon Version 6 is problematic with High Sierra. This article describes somewhat of a fix – ‘reset’ the Dragon preferences and dictate into Text Edit.
A note to Dragon Users about High Sierra.
According to Nuance Dragon 6.0.8 is compatible with High Sierra. But in High Sierra the ‘scratch that’ command doesn’t work. The correction window doesn’t work either. These are pretty crucial to an everyday user of Dragon. So unless you absolutely need to be running High Sierra, I’d suggest you stick with Sierra and run Dragon…
Dragon 6.02 – some thoughts on Nuance’s release and testing of Dragon professional
Today Nuance released Dragon version 6.02. I’d love to be able to review Dragon version 6.02 right now but because the major problem with Dragon is stability it is something that I can’t just review in 24 hours. I will be giving Dragon 6.02 a good workout over the coming few days and I will give…
Dragon 6.01 released
Nuance just released an update to Dragon for Mac yesterday. What’s more, I received a personal phone call from Jeff Lieman, the manager of Engineering at Nuance, encouraging me to try out and review the new version. He was very generous with his time and chatted with me about some of the new features of…
Dragon for Mac version 6 Review
UPDATE 15/10/2016: I have now been using Dragon 6.0.1 for a couple of weeks, you can read my thoughts here. UPDATE 28/9/2016: I received a personal phone call from Jeff Lieman, the manager of Engineering at Nuance, encouraging me to try out and review the new version, Dragon 6.01, which was released today. I will try it out…
Dragon Professional for Mac – what bugs do we need fixed?
The upgraded version of Dragon Dictate (Dragon Professional) version 6 is due to be released any time soon. There are still many bugs in version 5 that the various upgrades have not fixed ye yet. Indeed many of them are a hang-over from version 4. What are the main bugs we need to test the new…
Dragon for Mac version 6
Nuance are about to release a new version of Dragon for Mac called ‘Dragon Professional Individual for Mac.’
How to play iTunes songs on a digital TV (from a USB drive).
We were on holidays in a unit and there was a TV where we were staying. I didn’t have any cables but thought it would be nice to play some music from my Macbook air through the TV. The TV had a USB port. Here’s how I got my iTunes songs onto a USB drive and then onto the…
Dragon dictate now works with OS X Yosemite 10.10
The first three weeks of Yosemite has been painful because Dragon Dictate has not been working properly. It would not read my old profiles and would not let me train a new one without crashing. I rely fairly heavily on Dragon Dictate to do most of my writing/typing so this was a bit of…
Dragon Dictate version 4: Review
I’ve been playing around with Dragon Dictate version 4 for a few weeks now so it’s probably time I did a review. This review is for people who had never used Dragon Dictate before. Click here for a Review of the newer ‘Dragon for Mac’ (released September 2015.)
Dragon Dictate version 4, is it worth the upgrade?
I have written a review of Dragon Dictate version 4 here. For those of you who already have Dragon Dictate version 3, the big question is ‘Should I pay for the upgrade?’ I don’t think it’s worth the upgrade and here’s why. STOP PRESS: Time to upgrade! Version 5 was released today (15 months later). Read more…
Dragon Dictate Version 4
I have just received a free version of Dragon Dictate version 4 to review. I installed it yesterday and first impressions are that it is slightly better than version 3 in recognition. This is surprising because I thought version 3 was so good that it would be hard to improve on. I’m putting it through it’s paces.…
Dragon Express
Last week Nuance released a new app called Dragon Express in the App store. A cut-down version of Dragon Dictate. I’ve never seen an app with worse reviews!
Dragon dictate 2.5 problems
Yesterday Nuance released to Dragon dictate 2.5.
Macspeech dictate is renamed ‘Dragon Dictate’
This month Macspeech have released a major upgrade of Macspeech Dictate and they have also renamed it to include the Dragon branding Dragon Dictate.
Dragon Dictate Released!
Dictate 2.0 “learns” better than any previous version via training in the Recognition window, as well as through the Vocabulary Training feature.