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Dragon Dictate 3.0 (Mac) (Old Version) Sep 28, 2012 by Nuance Dragon. 3.1 out of 5 stars 326. Software More Buying Choices $49.77 (5 used & new offers).
Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, V6, makes it easy to get started with speech recognition with a new engine- Delivering up to 99% speech recognition accuracy! Create documents such as reports, emails, forms and notes in record time! DragonDictate, Dragon Dictate, or Dragon for Mac is proprietary 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 It has now been replaced by Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows, and has since been acquired by Nuance Communications.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 for Mac offers improved recognition of Canadian, SE Asian, Indian, and Australian English accents. Gain powerful voice control in Word 2016 Dragon for Mac provides support for Word 2016 with Full Text Control and built-in commands lets you effortlessly mix talking and typing. Save transcribed files as Microsoft Word documents. A Dragon for Mac v5 upgrade license will allow you to upgrade from either of the previous two versions, Dragon Dictate for Mac v3 and v4. Operating Systems. You can run Dragon for Mac 5 on OS X Mavericks (10.9), Yosemite (10.10), and El Capitan (10.11). This is the first significant advancement we see in v5.
Dragon Dictation makes it possible to transform voice to text and put your thoughts down anywhere anytime. All you need is the app installed on Windows, Mac, iPhone or Android phone and your voice. Let’s have a look what Dragon software you’d better choose and how to correctly use Dragon Dictation app for smartphones.
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How to Dragon Dictate on iPhone and Android
On the official Nuance Communications site you will find apps for home users, journalists and bloggers as well as apps for business users, drivers and medical workers. The one we observed is Dragon Dictation. It’s great for every day using. You can download Dragon Dictation app for iPhone or Android absolutely free or charge.
- Open the Dragon Dictation app.
- Set the Region you are in. It is required to precise the language of recognition.
- Choose the Tap and Dictate button and begin to dictate.
- When you are through, tap the Stop button. You will see a written text of your message. You can correct it using the keyboard.
- Now you can copy the text to carry it over to any other app.
At the same time you may publish the dictated text on Twitter, send a message or an email with it.
If you want to change the language, go to Settings and choose the right one there. You can set other features like name recognition here.
Now, let’s run a test and check what this app can actually do.
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Dragon Dictation Test
To make sure that Dragon app is as brilliant as it sounds, we dictated 5 text pieces to check the quality of recognition.
1. The first one was a short phrase from a famous Lullaby:
Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star.
Great result, but that was easy.
2. The second one was a long and sophisticated tongue twister:
Whether the weather is right, or whether the weather is not
Whether the weather is warm, or whether the weather is hot,
We’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not
As you can see, the written variant is not 100% correct.
3. The third piece is the description of Freemake Blog. We didn’t train these phrases so they looked natural with pauses and different intonation.
Freemake Blog is the place where we, Freemake team, share our findings of new and interesting apps, software and websites across the Web. Here you’ll learn about latest tech trends, visit hot destinations on the Net, get acquainted with web influencers and laugh at our funny discoveries. Feel free to contact Freemake Blog team.
Unfortunately, the app fails here.
4. The fourth one is said in Scottish English:
Dinnae fuss, Gonninae dae that!
Which means “Don’t worry, I’m not going to do that”. And it was a complete fail. So as it is impossible in the general mode, for dialects recognition create a profile and modify Accent.
Well, if you live in Scotland, try to speak general English when you use Dragon Dictation app.
5. And the last one is a French phrase we decided to try a different language.
“J’ai le mal de la Seine” – I adore river the Seine.
This time the app showed a nice result again.
Dragon Tips and Tricks for Advanced Users
Using Dragon app for a long time but your text leaves much to be desired? Try these tips and tricks to improve the quality of your speech recognition:
- Don’t dictate if the background is noisy.
- Position the microphone near your mouth.
- Try to use the same volume, pace and tone every time you dictate.
- If you want to use punctuation, say the items’ names like comma or full stop.
While dictating, you are welcome to use the following voice commands:
Give me help, Set for Arial (or any other font), Bold that, Delete previous character/5 words, Spell, Select “Twinkle” (or any other word), New line/paragraph, Undo that, etc.
To see the complete list of commands, ask the Dragon app: “What can I say?”.
The Good:
- Dragon App is free for smartphones where you most need it.
- It is really fast at typing your words.
- Your text can be easily shared on social networks.
- Can be used on the go.
- The interface is stylish and user-friendly, so you don’t need to be a software pro to use it.
- The app is very useful for students as they can easily epitomize their lectures.
- It is as well helpful for language learning as you can obtain a right pronunciation using it.
The Bad:
- No note storage.
- You need a reliable Internet connection for dictating.
- If you use 3G or 4G, it might lead to expensive network charges.
- There is no button to erase all the dictated text so you have to delete it with the keyboard, which is not so convenient.
- The result isn’t always precise.
- The proper pronouns are mostly not correct.
Verdict:
As you see the Dragon Dictation App is the most suitable for short and prepared phrases. Nonetheless, it is a great app to write your ideas down hands-free.
Dragon Desktop Options
Apart from numerous iPhone and Android apps, Nuance Communications also develop software for computers. Dragon Software in its turn is not free. There are four options for Windows users:
- Dragon Home for $74.99 is great for bloggers and students for dictating lectures, blog posts and varies to-do’s.
- Dragon Premium for $174.99 has more options than Dragon Home. For example, it lets you dictate via Bluetooth set. Dragon Premium is perfect for capturing documents, surf the Net, send emails, etc.
- Dragon Professional Individual for $300 gives powerful customization features and is a must-have for working with business documents.
- Dragon legal Individual for $500 includes a specialized legal vocabulary and lets you work with contracts, briefs and other docs just by using your voice.
Those who prefer to use Mac can benefit from two options:
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- Dragon for Mac for $300 that is fully customizable and can work with presentations, emails, spreadsheets and, of course, documents.
- Dragon for Mac medical starting form $999 lets capture or improve clinical documentation fast and easily.
Check how it works on Mac:
Dragon Dictation’s working principles are similar to those of Siri, Google or Cortana, it recognizes speech and then converts it into words. It is really easy to use and can amaze you with a quick and precise result.
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It’s been over 2 years since Dragon 6 was released but it still has bugs. As with previous Dragon releases the speech recognition is excellent but the stability is problematic.
My suggestion is to stay with Dragon version 5 if you own it. It strikes the best balance between accuracy and stability. However, if you are running the latest version of Dragon for Mac 6, here are some tips on how to get it working with the least amount of spinning beach balls.
1. Try a different version – version 6.0.7 may be better with Mac OS Sierra (10.12)
In Dragon 6.0.8 and High Sierra the ‘scratch that’ command doesn’t always work and the correction window doesn’t always work.
I am now running 6.0.8 with High Sierra and unfortunately I can’t tell whether it is High Sierra or Dragon 6.0.8 that is causing more crashes. Either way, 6.0.7 with Sierra was better.
Prior to 6.0.7 I found the most stable version to be 6.0.5.
2. Use a new profile.
Delete your old profile and start again. The recognition is so good in the new version that you won’t really need your old profile anyway. It seems to have more problems when you import your old voice data.
3. Delete the old version of Dragon.
When you install Dragon it tries to use your old preferences, but in this process some of the preferences can get corrupted. See this post on how to do this: http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6851/kw/uninstall
4. For stability purposes, do not dictate into ‘supported Apps’ like Apple Pages and Microsoft Word.
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Dragon seems to be at it’s worst with Apps that are supported with ‘Dragon Integration’. This includes Pages, Word and Text Edit. Stay away from them. For some reason Scrivener seems to be OK, Unsupported apps may work better.
5. Try not to do too much clicking with the mouse.
In previous versions it was OK to mix a combination of speaking and typing but version 6 doesn’t cope as well with that.
6. Try not to do too many corrections when you are dictating.
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When dictating into Apple Pages Dragon crashes almost every time I try to do something other than straight dictation. The correction in version 6 seems to be buggy still.
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