

What little respect that I had for Nuance as a 25 year Dragon user on multiple platforms has really gone down the drain. Probably the best option will be PC emulation on the Mac to run Dragon Naturally Speaking V15, but I shudder to think what that is going to cost as my MacBook Air has only 4 GB of memory, which is not sufficient to do PC emulation along with DNS15. A PC is not the answer for me I have been on that route for too many years.
#Dragon dictate for mac 4.0 full
Dragon’s accurate speech recognition, customizable capabilities, easy-to-use interface and full transcription exibility means you get more done. Dictate, edit, transcribe and control your computer all by using your voice. Now with it's demise there is a huge void in the Mac world for voice recognition dictation. Dragon Dictate for Mac, version 4 is the ultimate productivity tool that enables you to save time and get more done. I learned to write necessary new words down on paper and then add them to the program one at a time after dictating and avoiding any on screen voice recognization of correction and editing commands and with this scheme the program was serviceable for me for complex report dictation. The program can only learn one new word at a time for the vocabulary file, having to save the entire file after each addition, really time consuming and frustrating but probably necessary because of it's frequent crashes. The program does work well for straight forward speech recognition to get thoughts down on the screen rapidly, saving edits for the keyboard. Dragon Group Client Installation Guide v15.6 (PDF) Dragon Group Citrix Administrator Guide v15.6 (PDF) Dragon Group Professional Group Nuance. Training is working again and Dragon Dictate has stopped crashing.
#Dragon dictate for mac 4.0 update
I was going to write a post on a workaround for this problem, but Nuance released an update today version 4.0.6 which fixes the problems. Also includes tips and notes to help you use the software more effectively. I rely fairly heavily on Dragon Dictate to do most of my writing/typing so this was a bit of a dud.

Yes, their program did not work as well on a Mac because the control and correction features were bug laden and caused multiple crashes. Provide details on installation, optional settings, voice commands and dictation of different types of text.

It really is a loss for Nuance to completely pull out of Macintosh support.
