

I did not alter the dictated text other than to add HTML Italicize. Those two paragraphs, were dictated to DD, after which the words were copied to the Clipboard and pasted in the MDN comment window. In other words, articulation is to speech, what Dragon Dictate is to taking complete control of the Macintosh, using the power of your voice. Take your typical moron, whose native tongue is a dialect only two-year-olds can understand, and it could take months for them to learn DragonDictate’s proper command dialect. I concur Paul, the noise from any source has to be understood.

While the feature may sound trivial to non-users, Nuance notes that it ‘was the most requested product enhancement from Dragon Dictate customers.’ Mixing keyboard, mouse, and voice no longer disrupts the program’s internal document map.”

“If you’ve ever used voice recognition, you know that on plenty of occasions it is simpler just to lean forward and tap out a complex name than to spell it letter by letter Dictate made this a dicey proposition.”Īdvertisement: Limited Time: Students, Parents and Faculty save up to $200 on a new Mac.Īnderson reports, “With version 2.5, Dictate finally ditches the Golden Rule, at least in compatible apps like Microsoft Word 2011. “The problem was bad enough that Nuance, the developer behind Dictate, laid out a “Golden Rule” against ever using the mouse or keyboard while speaking to the program,” Anderson reports. “Or rather, you can, but your document will probably suffer.”
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The new version, a free upgrade for Dictate 2.0 users, addresses one of the most common complaints about the program: you can’t use the mouse or keyboard while entering text with your voice,” Nate Anderson reports for Ars Technica. “Dragon Dictate for Mac, the only viable option for Mac speech recognition, turns 2.5 today.
