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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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Dragon NaturallySpeaking Premium (formerly Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred) was retired with the release of v15. Instead, for a more advanced version of Dragon, Dragon Professional will help you get a lot more done a lot quicker. Create documents, spreadsheets, reports, e-mails, and surf the web with simple shortcuts – just by speaking.

1. This means you can install Dragon on one computer located at one physical address. We also allow you to install this one copy on a secondary computer for back-up purposes. For the latest editions of Dragon speech recognition, specifically Dragon for Mac, the license is per user (not per machine).
2. Jan 10, 2013  Dragon Dictate 3 for Mac is, as the name might suggest, a choice tool for dictation. While it does offer voice control too, that's not its primary selling point, and on the Mac the built-in tools.
3. Dragon NaturallySpeaking (also known as Dragon for PC, or DNS) is a speech recognition software package developed by Dragon Systems of Newton, Massachusetts, which was acquired first by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products and later by Nuance Communications, formerly known as ScanSoft.
4. Shop Best Buy for Dragon Naturally Speaking and Dragon Dictate software for your Mac or Windows PC. Shop voice recognition software options available at Best Buy.
5. Jan 07, 2019  Mac OS update no longer working for Dragon Dictate using Mohave OS. After 2 months of waiting for the Mohave Dragon Mac update, today their support told me that the Mac update is on hold. They're not able to manufacture the update and may drop.
6. Dragon for Mac supports Nuance-approved digital voice recorders for advanced recording functionality and can automatically transcribe the audio files to text back at your Mac. You may prefer to take notes by recording your voice into an audio device for later transcription, or you can work with the Dragon Anywhere mobile app for immediate, professional-grade dictation.

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.

1. Open the Dragon Dictation app.
2. Set the Region you are in. It is required to precise the language of recognition.
   
3. Choose the Tap and Dictate button and begin to dictate.
   
4. When you are through, tap the Stop button. You will see a written text of your message. You can correct it using the keyboard.
5. 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.

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.

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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.

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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:

• 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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UPDATE 15/10/2016: I have now been using Dragon 6.0.1 for a couple of weeks, you can read my thoughts here.

UPDATE 28/9/2016: I received a personal phone call from Jeff Lieman, the manager of Engineering at Nuance, encouraging me to try out and review the new version, Dragon 6.01, which was released today. I will try it out over the next few weeks and give you an update.

I’m so disappointed with the latest version of Dragon for Mac 6 released yesterday that I’m not even going to write a review. I will make some comments though for those who might be thinking of upgrading.

Dragon for Mac 6 (renamed Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, v6) crashes every few minutes. It does crazy mistakes like “againn”, “consistsnt” and “won’tt”. There have been a couple of times it has taken complete control of my computer and spat out endless garbage like ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ

I cannot even force quit it because it is an invisible application. I cannot go into activity monitor to quit because I have lost control of my keyboard. I’ve installed it on my Macbook Air but it’s too unstable to put on my main Mac.

Here are some comments from actual users:

“profound disappointment.”Kevin“this version of Dragon is so much garbage that I thought I might be able to warn others”Zach“Upgrading to dragon 6 is the worse decision I have made in a long time.”Max“shouldn’t Nuance be beta-testing new releases with users so these bugs get squashed before a general release?”Jon“I find it surprising that this version has been released when it clearly contains so many errors.”Peter“I am also frustrated with version 6, and like Zach, I’ve been a user since the MacSpeech iListen days.”Stephen“Now instead of just messing up and quitting, the 6.0 version just stops working and gives you a spinning beach ball.”Mary“getting a little tiresome”adsub“very disappointed that Nuance would put out such an unstable version.”Mark“it is not a positive experience.”David“Getting Dragon version 6 for the Macintosh to work for me was a huge pain.”Fletch“What good is improved UI when the guts don’t work.”Andrew“Big promises for Dragon 6, but a complete failure on delivery. Don’t buy it!”Tersh“It has crashed more than 10 times in 6 days in the course of doing very ordinary dictation tasks.”Steve“by far the worst release I’ve seen as far as bugs and erratic behavior in a program version that’s virtually useless”Mark“I feel like Charlie Brown, each time they come out with a new version I think that it will be different but then they pull the football away.”

And my favourite:

“The only “Deep Learning” taking place here is that I must not allow myself to be ripped off yet again!”Arnold

We know we are desperate if people are suggesting solutions like this:

“why don’t you try Dragon for Windows (using a Windows bootcamp partition or a virtual machine)?”Marius

I am very disappointed because previously this was one of my favourite pieces of software.

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You can read more on the Nuance customer forums here.

A final note, be wary of reviews like this one that are overly positive – they are selling the software!

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http://nuance-community.custhelp.com/posts/040ada05f3?commentId=20754#20754

ReplyKevinsays:September 3, 2016 at 2:59 am

Thanks for the heads up, though it is no less than I was expecting. At least you can get a 30-day refund if they do not manage to fix the problems.
As a side issue, I have been experimenting with open office, Neo office, and Libre office as alternatives to Word and Pages.
Personally, I had a pleasant surprise; Libre office is a delight to use, and while there ARE problems with Dragon, dictation does at least mean saving time again, instead of spending entire sessions problem-solving and cussing.

ReplyKevinsays:September 3, 2016 at 3:09 am

@ Wayne With you 100% on the upgrade/update issue. I bought 5 1 month ago and have been beset with problems. Now instead of receiving updates to fix the issues, I am receiving regular mailings asking for more money to upgrade my dodgy software for more dodgy software.

ReplyWaynesays:September 5, 2016 at 3:58 pm

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It seems to be worse in the applications that it claims to integrate with, e.g. Pages, Word. It kind of works okay if I am dictating into an application that it does not recognise, like Mail, or Safari, or text edit, so maybe that’s why Libre Office works.

ReplyKevinsays:September 5, 2016 at 5:16 pm

I think that Nuance are having real problems and maybe are actually incapable of fixing this.

In another post, I described how Dragon 5 crashes when I try to transfer text from the Dragon Pad, their own app!!
I reported the fault and requested assistance three days ago. So far no reply apart from the automated response (you know, the one that says I may be charged for assistance)

ReplyKevinsays:September 10, 2016 at 2:59 am

OK, they replied after 5 days. First attempt was to delete the Dragon plist file, but it made no difference, crashes continued at a continuous pace.
Then they asked me to completely remove D5 and then reinstall.
They also provided a download link to version 5.02
Reinstalling may be an issue if you did not purchase the digital download service, though you can still buy it for about 7 dollars (I am in Thailand, so am a little hazy on US currency.)
The complete removal instructions are:

A. Completely removing the installation files of the software.

1. Click Finder.
2. Click Go from the menu bar at the top of the computer screen.
3. Press and hold the “Option” key of the keyboard.
4. Select Library and release the “Option” key.

Go the exact locations below and delete the file or move it to the trash.

a. /Library/Application Support/Dragon folder
b. /Library/Preferences/com.dragon.dictate.plist
c. /Library/Preferences/com.dragon.dictate.plist.lockfile
d. /Library/Caches/com.dragon.dictate folder or Dragon folder
e. /Library/Save Application State/com.dragon.dictate or Dragon folder

5. On the left side of the window, select Applications and delete the Dragon Dictate.app

B. Running a Repair Disk Permission.

1. Click the magnifying glass icon on the upper right of your screen
2. Search for “Disk utility” without the quotations.
3. On a new window that will show up, you will see the available HD of the computer. Highlight the one with the name “Macintosh HD”
4. After highlighting it, at the top of it click the icon that says “First Aid” > Select Run and follow all onscreen prompts.
5. Empty the trash
6. Reboot your computer
7. Reinstall Dragon Dictate 5

Mike Zlotniksays:September 30, 2016 at 1:23 pm

I wish I had read this before I bought it. I had veresion 5 which version 6 ate. It is great for a minute or so and then it crashes or types garbage. Vocabulary editor does not work! Terrible stuff produced by incompetent fraudsters.

ReplyJohn S. Birchsays:October 20, 2016 at 9:50 am

I’ve been a Nuance user for years, way back to version 2 or 3 of Dragon Naturally Speaking, and can’t begin to tell you what a bitter disappointment I’ve found Dragon-for-Mac v6.

I’m 85 and have Alzheimer’s disease, and had high hopes that this product would make my life as a writer easier when I first saw your promotional material.

This application crashes constantly and you’ve clearly released it long before it was ready. I feel utterly cheated, and swindled out of the 100-odd $$$s “special offer” that I could ill afford.

Sincerely,

John s. Birch, New York City.

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I’m disappointed in Dragon 6, it’s not much better than 5 on the Mac. Not only is it expensive, but you can’t use it at all without doing the training. I purchased a specific headphone to use with Dragon and it’s no better than the built-in microphone for recognition. To add insult to injury, my company updated my laptop, and now Nuance wants me to either buy it all over again (no!) or pay them an extra premium (no!). I’ve made digital purchases on the internet for years and I’ve never been treated like this.

ReplyNancysays:November 25, 2016 at 7:19 am

I upgraded Dragon for Mac and I cannot believe how buggy it is! It’s amazing that anyone would try to sell such a problematic product. One reviewer said it is so buggy it should come with it’s own exterminator. The cursor jumps to random paragraphs and erases word, sentences, paragraphs. It puts random letters throughout my document. The spelling is atrocious. I spend so much time editing for these crazy problems, Dragon is no longer the useful tool it once was.

ReplyAndrewsays:February 6, 2017 at 8:27 pm

I have been persisting with Dragon 6 for Mac for the last 4 months, hoping an update would fix most of the terrible issues described above. My experience to date is that Dragon 6 is by far the worst version ever. My latest version was 6.0.5. I tried downgrading to Word 2011, thinking Word 2016 (Office 365) could be the problem. It wasn’t! I finally pulled the plug and requested a refund. I am now back to using Dragon 5.0 Mac with Word 2011 and my productivity is reasonable again. I won’t be in such a hurry to upgrade in the future! There is no point in adding new sales features, when basic functionality gets lost in the process.

ReplyGlen Fishersays:April 25, 2017 at 3:44 am

Dragon 6 worked fine with Word on my Mac – up until now. Now I get garbage everywhere – split words, the cursor popping up in strange places, garbled sentences. Have tried closing and reloading Dragon, closing and reloading Word, rebooting my computer – nothing works. Might as well throw the programme in the garbage, like the garbage it is generating.

Oh, and this is a bloody expensive programme! especially when it doesn’t work reliably.

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Don Johnsonsays:January 2, 2018 at 9:01 pm

I decided to try Dragon v6 (6.0.8) because I wanted to upgrade to OS X 10.11.6 Reading the mixed reviews I read a well written one on Amazon that helped me make the jump – So glad I did. The training period is much shorter than my version 4. It is accurate, faster and the cursor does not jump around as in prior versions. After 2 weeks the program is stable (no crashes) and a pleasure to use. I use an old Nuance USB headset with a 2014 Macbook Pro 2.8Ghz. i7 The program works really well with Scrivener, Word for Mac 2011 and of course TextEdit. I am a librarian and have put it though the paces dictating difficult text and it is so close to 100% accuracy.
Big Kudos to Nuance for finally getting it right.

ReplyMariasays:

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October 23, 2018 at 11:13 pm

I bought this product back in April and it has never worked properly and over the last two months it has been impossible to use. It now crashes every time I say “wake up”. I cannot even get started. I have had some technical support from a company call Hands Free Computing. They have been trying hard to help, but it is a faulty product. The most outrageous thing is that Nuance doesn’t solve the problem and apparently there is no way I can get a refund. They are completely unnaccountable. This is a extraordinary that they get away with it. I wasted my money and now they have announced that they are discontinuing Dragon for Mac leaving everyone in the lurch. They say they will give 3 months technical support but the product has not worked and it is not likely to work.

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