![]() This also helps train Dragon Dictate to properly handle your transcriptions. When you do find errors, you just type in the text box and change the text. Now I sat there and clicked within the text and that area became highlighted and I could either accept it or ignore it. Now working with my iPhone, I recorded dictation for the required 90 seconds for training purposes and using Dragon Dictate, it asked if I wanted to open it, I did, and a transcription of what I had read appeared in a dialog box, sans punctuation. What you wind up doing is setting up a new profile for transcription in addition to the one you’ve already created for yourself. There were very few apps that I could not open by speaking “Open XXXX.†The ability to utilize both the application on the Mac and the IOS version, just in case an idea pops into your mind while on the road or not at your desk, makes working on a project or sending an email so much easier.ĭragon Dictate has added a transcription feature, which, if you are the one making notes using a smartphone or a digital audio recorder, will make your life a heck of a lot easier. I found it much more efficient to say “Open Links†select the numbered link that I wanted and say “Choose link 42†for example to compose and email. Understand that you will still have to work with the system as Dragon Dictate does not understand a pause within a sentence so you would have to say “commaâ€, “semi-colon†or at the end of the sentence say “period.†There are still those times that you will still have to work with your hands to move a cursor to where you want it or to open an application, but overall the ability to utilize speech is an absolute pleasure. You can then speak “Click Compose†and a new message opens, which you can then follow up by speaking your text and end by telling Dragon Dictate to Send Message. Nuance has also updated the software to work more closely with Gmail. A good example is the ability while using Dragon Dictate to speak “Open Mail†and Apple’s Mail application opens. The thing that really makes Dragon Dictate a great product to work with is the ability to verbalize the command to “open†an application. I was also able, as the only user, to install Dragon Dictate on my Macbook Pro and copy my initial voice profile over to the Macbook and begin to utilize the software immediately. Since I am the primary user, my profile was all that I needed. If other members of your household want to utilize Dragon Dictate after you’ve installed it and created your profile, they too would need to create a profile. If you follow the directions, read the paragraph to include punctuation, you should be up and running in short order. As you are reading and the system is learning, the words you have read will then turn green in the dialog box. The Voice Profile itself only took me several minutes to read through the paragraph as provided by the software, providing a sound level and voice training for the system to utilize. Once I plugged in the USB microphone and selected it, I just followed the directions on installing the downloaded version. I registered the software as required (more on that later) and followed the instructions on using the microphone. I immediately noticed that it was a lot faster then the previous version, v 2, that I had used. Setting up Dragon Dictate was not hard, nor was it long and cumbersome. For my tests, I utilized the USB microphone VOIP headset with mic that I had on hand. To input your speech, you will need to utilize a USB or Bluetooth microphone, your Mac’s internal mike or by using an IOS/Android device using the Dragon Remote Microphone app. ![]() You do this by providing the software with a sample of your speech so that it learns what your voice sounds like and your way of pronouncing different words. Now you don’t just sit down and begin to dictate without first teaching Dragon Dictate to learn your individual voice. To use Dragon Dictate 4 for Mac, you have to have an Intel based Mac, (sorry, no Power PC Macs for those of you still using one) running OS 10.8.3 or 10.9 and a minimum of 4 GB of RAM. It’s taken them 2 years to provide the latest version to Mac users. ![]() Nuance has updated Dragon Dictate for the Mac to version 4. Since then Apple finally provided their own version of dictation when they offered up Dictation in the Mountain Lion version of OS X. The first time that Mac users could finally say that proper dictation had arrived was when Nuance offered Dragon Dictate for the Mac. It seems that the Mac has always been the Johnny-come-lately to the party as far as dictation was involved. Times have finally changed for Mac users when it comes to dictation on the Mac. ![]()
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