DragonDictate, Dragon Dictate, or Dragon for Mac , is your own speech recognition software. The older program, DragonDictate, was originally developed by Dragon Systems for Microsoft Windows. It has now been replaced by Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows, and has since been acquired by Nuance Communications. Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.0 (originally named MacSpeech Dictate) is only supported on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Nuance's other products for Mac include MacSpeech Scribe.
Video DragonDictate
Original DragonDictate
DragonDictate for Windows is a native speech recognition app from the Dragon System and uses discrete speech in which the user must pause to say every word. It has been replaced by Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which allows the introduction of continuous speech and correction and training of words through the keyboard. NaturallySpeaking remains the only Windows program, now in Version 13. DragonDictate for Windows is still available but has not been updated since Windows 98 is the current operating system.
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Dragon Dictate for Mac
Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.0, an upgrade for MacSpeech Dictate, was announced on September 20, 2010 by Nuance Communications, MacSpeech product developer. This enhancement combines several features of NaturallySpeaking into MacSpeech software. Dragon Dictate for Mac does not have other NaturallySpeaking features, such as coaching incorrectly recognizable words by simply retyping using the keyboard. The initial reviews by David Pogue's notes,
I am pleased with the strength, control, speed and accuracy of Dragon Dictate. It does, however, have room for improvement.
For example, in the world of dictation software, teaching software to know its location in your text documents is a big challenge. If you never touch the mouse, the program always knows where it is in the text - because it has kept all the text itself.
But if you click to edit somewhere, it's blind. No longer know where the document exists.
On Windows, Nuance has used some clever tricks to address this issue in the most important programs, such as Word and Outlook. But on a Mac, the program does not know what you've done manually, by clicking. So you can say something like "select fishmonger," and the program correctly selects that word. But if you then say "italics that" or "take advantage of that," the program operates on the wrong words, italicize or limit something a mile away from the choice. Strange.
(This issue does not occur on the word processor included in TextEdit or Dictate.)
Dragon Dictate for Mac has absolutely no support for Spanish users.
See also
- List of voice recognition software
Leading users
Peter David - author of comic books, novels, television, movies, and American video games. David started using DragonDictate after a stroke in December 2012.
References
External links
- Official website for Nuance Communications
- The DragonDictate/Speech Recognition FAQ
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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