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Nuance Debuts Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.5

Monday July 25, 2011 6:28 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Speech recognition firm Nuance today announced the launch of Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.5, bringing a number of new features including compatibility with the company's recently-released Dragon Remote Microphone app for iOS devices. Nuance is of course also apparently working closely with Apple on its "Assistant" function currently under development in iOS 5.

Among the other key additions in Dragon Dicate for Mac 2.5 is support for combining voice input with manual keyboard/mouse input in compatible applications such as Word 2011.

Dragon Dictate 2.5 allows users to seamlessly combine dictation with manual input from the mouse and keyboard while working with Microsoft Word 2011. This ability to “mix talking and typing” within Microsoft Word was the most requested product enhancement from Dragon Dictate customers. In addition, Dragon Dictate 2.5 offers built-in voice commands for Microsoft Word 2011 to format text, insert tables and graphics, and control many menu items by voice. Dragon Dictate 2.5 also works with other popular Mac applications: Apple’s Pages, Mail, TextEdit, iChat, Keynote, iCal, Safari, and more.

Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.5 also includes better formatting and editing control and enhanced commands to recognize multi-step functions such as posting to Facebook or Twitter and searching computers, Mail, or various search engines.

Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.5 is priced at $179.99 for a digital download or $199.99 for a boxed product. A package including wireless headset is also available for $299.99. Current users of Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.0 receive a free upgrade to the new version, while upgrade pricing for those on earlier versions comes in at $99.99.
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Shrink
11 months ago
Paired with Dragon Remote Microphone - seems to be working great for me.

Dragon Remote Microphone is an Iphone app that allows you to use your Iphone as a mic, instead of the headphone cable-attached gizmo that comes with the boxed version.

I know you can use a Bluetooth mic, but this works nicely, too.

I guess I have been lucky- my experience with Dragon apps has been excellent.

BTW - The iPhone app is free. Me like free!
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lhotka
11 months ago
Gee maybe this one won't crash every 5 minutes. Had to return the previous version because it was so buggy.

Disappointed that it took almost a year to get an update out.
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tlinford
11 months ago
I use this software because I suffer with inflammatory arthritis, affecting my hands.

I year after paying for an update last year, that made things worse, rather than better, I had been using the old version which I maintained.

I had been appalled by Nuances lack of response to customers through the old MacSpeech forums (previously very good).... MacSpeech website took a few months to transition the new corporate map.

I am very glad that those who bought version 2.0 are getting 2.5 for free (I hope it works with Lion, anyone know?) because I would not have parted with more cash for it! I hope this lives up the the promise.
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pruppert
11 months ago
I will throw in my two cents here. I been working with the Dragon Dictation app for Mac over the past week and have been quite impressed. It is generally about 95% percent correct. Probably will get better with training.
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tlinford
11 months ago

I will throw in my two cents here. I been working with the Dragon Dictation app for Mac over the past week and have been quite impressed. It is generally about 95% percent correct. Probably will get better with training.


I have been using the new update for a few days, in word, doing mixed typing and dictation.... It seems to work!

This is what should have been delivered a year ago.... but I won't be to grumpy about it..... but all those people who bought the expensive legal and medical packages must we well hacked off!
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tlinford
11 months ago
Not only have they got Dragon for Mac working .....

look at this!

http://www.nuance.com/dragon/remote-microphone/index.htm

You can now take advantage of, not only a wire free microphone, but you can take advantage of the voice signal processing if the iPhone to generate even more accurate speech recognition!
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