Dragon Dictate 2.5 (Mac)

Product Details

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• ASIN: B0051O8ENK
• Release Date: 12 Aug 2011
  

By : Nuance Communications, Inc.
Price : £119.99

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
With Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.5 speech recognition software, you can enter text just by speaking. Control your favourite Mac applications – including Microsoft Word 2011 -- using only your voice. With Dragon Dictate you can produce reports, email, articles, books, research notes, online content, and more — quickly, easily, and accurately. Use your iPhone or iPod as a wireless microphone at your Mac. You’ll get more done faster at home, at work, or wherever life takes you. Dragon Dictate provides amazing accuracy and requires just minutes of training to get started.

What’s New in Version 2.5
Enhanced Hardware and Software Support
Microsoft Word 2011 Support: Dictate 2.5 allows users to seamlessly combine dictation with manual input from the mouse and keyboard.
New Audio Input Options
Dictate comfortably and conveniently – via an iPhone without a traditional headset
Free Dragon Remote Microphone application (available in the Apple app store)
Converts a user’s iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4, iPad and iPad 2 or iPod Touch 4th gen running iOS 4.2 into a wireless microphone via WiFi
New Facebook and Twitter Commands
Update Facebook by saying, “Post to Facebook”, “Post to Facebook [text],” or “Post that to Facebook”
Capture tweets by saying, “Post that to Twitter.” Additional Twitter commands include “Tweet [text]" (English only) and "Post to Twitter [text]”
Improved Formatting Control
Formatting Enhancements: Individual preferences can be set for dates and time (e.g., June 18, 2011 vs. 6/18/11), numbers and units of measure (e.g., five vs. 5), addresses, abbreviations, and more. Users can also set a preference to insert two spaces after a period, if they choose.
Numbers Mode: Version 2.5 introduces Numbers Mode, which can be particularly helpful for users that frequently dictate many numbers in a row, such as inputting figures or product codes into a database.
Vocabulary Editor Improvements: Users can now delete words from the built-in Dragon vocabulary.
User Interface and Usability Enhancements
Auto Sleep Microphone: If the microphone is on but does not receive input after one minute, the microphone will automatically go into Sleep mode.

Key Benefits
TURN TALK INTO TEXT
Instead of a keyboard, use your voice to produce text.
UNLOCK YOUR CREATIVITY
Transform ideas into text at the speed of thought -- don’t let typing get in the way of your ideas or productivity.
WORK COMFORTABLY
Control your Mac in a relaxed, hands-free manner without being tied to your keyboard
MULTI-TASK LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Tell your Mac what to do, like “Reply To This Message” or “Open Microsoft Word” or “Jump To Google” to work faster and smarter. Create voice commands that automate complex workflows on your Mac.
WORK YOUR WAY
Customize Dragon Dictate for Mac with personal vocabulary and voice commands that reflect the kind of work you do.
BE PRODUCTIVE ON THE GO
Turn your iPhone or iPod into a wireless microphone for use with Dragon on your Mac.
BUILT FOR MAC
Dragon Dictate for Mac was built to give you the experience you expect from your favourite Macintosh applications -- an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that dramatically boosts productivity. What’s more, Dragon Dictate for Mac works with Microsoft Word 2011 and your favourite Apple applications, including Mail, iChat, iCal, TextEdit, Pages, Safari and many more.
With Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.5 speech recognition software, you can enter text just by speaking. Control your favourite Mac applications using only your voice. With Dragon Dictate you can produce reports, email, articles, books, research notes, online content and more. Use your iPhone or iPod touch as a wireless microphone at your PC with the free Dragon Remote Microphone app. You'll get more done faster at home, at work or wherever life takes you.
Key Benefits
TURN TALK INTO TEXTInstead of a keyboard, use your voice to produce text. Speak your thoughts, and watch your words appear on screen in your favourite Mac applications with amazing recognition accuracy.
UNLOCK YOUR CREATIVITYDragon Dictate for Mac keeps up with your mind. Transform ideas into text at the speed of thought. Start being creative and productive with only your voice - don't let typing get in the way of your ideas or productivity.
WORK COMFORTABLYControl your Mac in a relaxed, handsfree manner without being tied to your keyboard. Instead of using your mouse, just speak commands to launch and control applications. Move the cursor or click anywhere on screen simply by voice.
MULTI-TASK LIKE NEVER BEFORETell your Mac what to do, like "Reply to this message" or "Open Microsoft® Word" or "Jump to Google" to work faster and smarter. Create voice commands that automate complex workflows on your Mac.
WORK YOUR WAYCreate a digital world, powered by your own voice. Customise Dragon Dictate for Mac with personal vocabulary and voice commands that reflect the kind of work you do
BUILT FOR MACAn intuitive, easy-to-use interface that dramatically boosts productivity. What's more, Dragon Dictate for Mac works with Microsoft Word 2011 and your favourite Apple applications, including Mail, iChat, iCal, TextEdit, Pages, Safari

 

Dragon Dictate 2.5 (Mac)

 

Technical Details

• Say words and watch them appear on your screen in your favourite Mac applications – including Microsoft Word 2011
• Transform ideas into text at the speed of thought
• Don’t let typing or spelling slow you down.
• Tell your Mac what to do, like “Reply To This Message” or “Open Microsoft Word” or “Jump To Google” to work faster and smarter.
• Turn your iPhone or iPod into a wireless microphone for use with Dragon on your Mac
• Create voice commands that automate complex workflows on your Mac.Dragon understands and obeys your voice commands.
• Dragon even gets to know you better over time so recognition accuracy keeps increasing
• Control your Mac in a comfortable, hands-free mode without being frustrated by your keyboard and mouse
• Dictate documents, send email and instant messages, search and surf the Web, -- using just your voice Dragon adapts to your voice and the words you use.
• Personalize Dragon with your own word lists of acronyms, proper names and other unique phrases.

Customer Reviews

I've used Dragon on Windows but replaced my computer with a Mac and so bought the latest version of Dragon.
I was so full of hope but clearly we are a number of years away from being able to happily dictate without problem!
Despite training for hours and hours, Dragon still chooses to default to certain spellings or mishears me to the point of it being ludicrous. I would say I have to close it down at least twice a day when it starts to play up or slows down and I have to wait 10 seconds or so before it types out what I've said. Personally, manual typing is much faster but I'm obliged to use Dragon because I have RSI.
Good points: when working well, it's fast and it's great to be able to dictate and send e-mails without moving a muscle. It uses apostrophes correctly.
Bad points: it is sometimes almost starts typing backwards, deleting words. It needs rebooting regularly. It simply refuses to recognise words that I have put in the vocabulary and have trained. Despite the fact that I speak extremely clearly, it frequently uses words that I haven't dictated.
I'd love to know if there is a way to navigate round websites as once I got into a website, I then have to revert to using the mouse to go to the various windows in that website

This is a very effective piece of software and for someone like me who transcribes a lot of recorded interviews it's much faster and leaves me RSI free. It has some annoying quirks - for example if I say 'coffee' it always comes up with 'Coffey'. But these are quite rare. It actually loses a star because of the mic headset. The mic can sometimes hear the recording through the headphones, which plays havoc with the transcription process. So I have to use a separate set of headphones. Having said that, I recommend it highly. For me, the ROI was fast and it paid for itself within a few uses.

 

Dragon Dictate 2.5 (Mac)