Dragon Dictate 4 also lets you mix dictation and editing in Pages 4.3-that’s Pages ‘09, not the latest version. Not everyone will appreciate some of the new features in Dragon Dictate 4, but if you use Gmail on the Web for your email, a new browser extension lets you manage Gmail using voice commands. Using SpeechWare’s USB 6-in-1 TableMike, with the boom peeking out below my Thunderbolt display, I’ve been dictating articles and blog posts, and read a number of articles from the Web, using Dragon Dictate 4, and in all cases, the quality of the recognition was excellent.ĭragon Dictate 4 looks exactly like its predecessor, but there’s something new under the hood.
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Recognition quality is radically improved over Dragon Dictate 3. But with version 4, I now feel, for the first time, that I can dictate without paying too much attention to the words on my screen, and go back and edit after I’ve finished speaking. I’ve seen, over the years, how Nuance has refined and tweaked its speech recognition engine. But as I wrote when I compared OS X’s dictation and Dragon Dictate, back in 2012, “If, however, you want to dictate regularly, for more than short, occasional texts, Dragon Dictate is the way to go.”ĭragon Dictate 4 is now available, and, while the list of new features doesn’t look impressive, there’s something new under the hood. In between, the company flirted with the short-lived Dragon Express app, but abandoned that pretty quickly it didn’t offer good enough accuracy, and OS X, since Mountain Lion, includes basic speech recognition functionality that replicates much of what it did. Nuance has taken a while to find their path on the Mac, since they bought out MacSpeech, whose earlier MacSpeech Dictate was good, but flawed.
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Over the past few years, Nuance has been refining the software, taking it from a pretty good speech recognition app to something one can now rely on.
#DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING MAC 6.0 REVIEW UPDATE#
It’s been nearly a year and a half since the last update to Nuance’s speech recognition software, Dragon Dictate, was released.