There is no 'bold on', 'underline on' etc command. Amazingly, there is no 'go to end of line' command. I'm having to learn a slew of new commands that seem pointlessly different, for example 'undo last action' instead of 'undo that' or 'right arrow' instead of 'move right', etc. A minor complaint is the lack of standardisation in commands between NS and Dragon for Mac. I'm also noticing dictating here into Chrome that there is a real issue with confusion about capitalisation which I haven't found with Word.Īlso they haven't totally eliminated the confusion that the app sometimes experiences when you amend using voice and keystrokes. For example, when you insert new dictated text into existing text, there are too many little glitches like trailing spaces at the start of the insertion and no space at the end, and/or unnecessary capitalisation, and/or a lack of necessary capitalisation.
#Dragon for mac 5.0 review windows#
I understand that Nuance don't put anything like the resources into Mac versions that they put into Windows products and it still shows. But it's good to be able to dictate straight into Mac Mail, for example. That wasn't such a problem before because the vast majority of my dictation is done into Word and the Parallels interface is so good that for all intents and purposes you can dictate into a Mac word document with NS – you just choose to open the Word document on your Mac in Windows and all the changes are saved in the Mac document when you close it. For the first time ever, I am dictating this into a browser on my Mac. Also, you can dictate straight into Mac apps. Secondly, for a Mac user, far more control over the computer, which obviously you don't get running NS on a virtual machine.
I assume the recognition engine is the same as used in the latest version of NS, and it's terrific – extremely accurate without any training. So I don't know to what extent this new version is an improvement on the last version of DragonDictate.Īnyway, the positives. I have not bothered with any Dragon for Mac product since DragonDictate 2, which was appallingly bad – highly restricted functionality as compared with NS, and worst of all, it went haywire when you tried to correct using a combination of voice and keystrokes. I am a rusted-on Mac user, and for a number of years I have run Dragon NaturallySpeaking on my Mac with a Windows virtualisation app (Parallels). It is the latest version of what used to be called DragonDictate for Mac. Here are some first impressions of 'Dragon for Mac 5', which I downloaded at a special offer price and installed last week.
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