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Dragon learns when you perform an initial microphone volume calibration (you read for about 40 seconds to set the volume of your microphone) but as you use the app, Voice Training improves, but Dragon’s ability to start correctly transcribing your voice immediately is an improvement from previous versions. Nuance has rewritten the speech recognition engine. Dragon does work very fast and accurately – you talk and there’s a slight pause, then the text spews out. It does a remarkably good job, although it transcribed ‘Nisus’ as ‘nicest’ (t’s pronounced ‘nice us’) but that sort of thing is to be expected, with a product name like Nisus.

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So now I can just talk, and with a word processor open – in this case my faithful favourite Nisus Writer Pro – I just talked … this very text, as a matter of fact. Now you can use your Macs built-in mic or any better quality mic you have that can plug into your Mac. This is a bigger change than you might think, as it used to demand you buy a Dragon mic to make the software work at all. Dragon is happy to type in any app and Dragon offers the same accuracy in all of them.Ī small menu appears at top right of your screen (above) and a dialogue with a red Mic logo on it – click that and it goes green, and you’re in business.

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But you have to admit, being able to chat at your Mac and have it type out what you’re saying has its attractions – plenty of people have never really got to grips with typing but that doesn’t mean their thoughts shouldn’t be turned into editable text.ĭragon does more than that – it also enables spoken commands (a la Apple’s built-in VoiceOver)Īfter installing, the latest Dragon Dictate (which just had an incremental update to add El Capitan compatibility) asks permission to access Accessibility in System Preferences so it can use the built-in mic, and then a short welcome screen takes you through a few other steps: it asks you to put in your serial number (or go for the 14-day free trial), then to register with name and email address, and then you get the option to set which microphone you’re using, in case you have something better than the Mac’s internal mic, and some text to speak with so Dragon can evaluate your speech and your audio environment.Īlso, this new version no longer needs you to enter text into the Note Pad within the application. This quite venerable, by now, dictation software has reached a new high, but a lot of this territory has been since covered by Siri and even the straight dictation software in Mac OS.

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