Microsoft Office 365 offers two versions – Online Version and Offline Version.
DragonDictate, Dragon Dictate, or Dragon for Mac is proprietary speech recognition software. The older program, DragonDictate, was originally developed by Dragon Systems for Microsoft Windows.It has now been replaced by Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows, and has since been acquired by Nuance Communications.Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.0 (originally named MacSpeech Dictate) is supported only. Dragon Medical Practice is speech recognition software, and includes features such as customizable macros, Speech-to-Text analysis, automatic transcription, Multi-Languages, voice recognition, and audio capture. With regards to system requirements, Dragon Medical Practice is.
Online versions of the Microsoft Office applications (such as Word, Outlook and Excel) through a web browser,Offline versions enables you to download desktop versions of the Office applications.
Offline version is suitable for all functions of Dragon Naturally Speaking.
The following Nuance Desktop products support dictation only when running Office 365 Online (Online Version):
Dragon Professional Individual
Dragon Legal Individual
Dragon Professional Group
Dragon Legal Group
Note: Full Text Control and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are not supported when running Office 365 Online.
Dragon Legal Individual
Dragon Professional Group
Dragon Legal Group
Note: Full Text Control and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are not supported when running Office 365 Online.
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The following Nuance Desktop products are not supported when running Office 365 Online:
Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 13 and earlier
PDF Converter Professional
OmniPage
PaperPort
PDF Converter Professional
OmniPage
PaperPort
Note: Nuance Desktop products may have application add-ins (such as toolbar buttons) that are typically enabled in Microsoft Office desktop applications to improve the experience. When running Microsoft Office Online, these application add-ins will not be enabled. Additionally, using Dragon to dictate into Office Online applications may require the use of the Dragon Dictation Box.
To take advantage of all the features of Nuance Desktop products, we recommend using a local installation of Microsoft Office. Certain subscription plans to Microsoft Office 365 include the local desktop version of Microsoft Office
DragonDictate, Dragon Dictate, or Dragon for Mac is proprietary speech recognition software. The older program, DragonDictate, was originally developed by Dragon Systems for Microsoft Windows. It has now been replaced by Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows, and has since been acquired by Nuance Communications. Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.0 (originally named MacSpeech Dictate[1]) is supported only on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Nuance's other products for Mac include MacSpeech Scribe.
Original DragonDictate[edit]
DragonDictate for Windows was the original speech recognition application from Dragon Systems and used discrete speech where the user must pause between speaking each word. The first version, 1.0 was available only through a few distribution and support partners. It included a Shurecardioid microphone headset. Later it was replaced by Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which allows continuous speech recognition and correction and training of words via the keyboard. NaturallySpeaking remains a Windows-only program, and since 2016 distributes in Version 15. DragonDictate for Windows is still available but has not been updated since Windows 98 was the current operating system.
Dragon Dictate for Mac[edit]
Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.0, an upgrade for MacSpeech Dictate, was announced on September 20, 2010 by Nuance Communications, the developer of MacSpeech products. The upgrade incorporates some of the features of NaturallySpeaking into the MacSpeech software. Dragon Dictate for Mac lacks other NaturallySpeaking features, such as training mis-recognized words by simply re-typing them using the keyboard. An early review by David Pogue notes,
I’m thrilled about the power, the control, the speed and the accuracy of Dragon Dictate. It does, however, have some room for improvement.
For example, in the dictation software world, teaching the software to know its location in your text document is a huge challenge. If you never touch the mouse, the program always knows where it is in the text — because it has deposited all that text itself.
But if you click to edit somewhere, it’s blind. It no longer knows where it is in the document.
In Windows, Nuance has used some clever tricks to overcome this problem in the most important programs, like Word and Outlook. On the Mac, however, the program has no idea what you’ve done manually, by clicking. So you can say something like “select fishmonger,” and the program correctly selects that word. But if you then say “italicize that” or “capitalize that,” the program operates on the wrong words, italicizing or capping something a mile away from the selection. Bizarre.
(This problem doesn’t happen in TextEdit or Dictate’s own included word processor.)[2]
In October 2018 Nuance announced that it was dropping Macintosh support for its products.[3]
See also[edit]
Notable users[edit]
Peter David - American writer of comic books, novels, television, movies and video games. David began using DragonDictate following his stroke in December 2012.[4][5]
References[edit]
- ^Nuance - Dragon for Mac
- ^Finally, Professional Dictation Software for the Mac David Pogue, September 23, 2010
- ^[1] Mac users burned after Nuance drops Dragon speech to text softwareOctober 30, 2018
- ^David, Kathleen (January 15, 2013). 'Your Semi Daily Peter David Report for Jan 15 2012'. peterdavid.net.
- ^'Peter David, Post-Stroke, Returns Home'. startrek.com. February 11, 2013.
External links[edit]
- Official website for Nuance Communications
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