[Trainer-Talk] Speech Recognition software for Mac

[Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]]

Thanks, Maurice - I appreciate your feedback.  I think I'm going to go ahead and purchase two copies of Dragon for Mac 6, even without Nuance's technical support (not that we get much for its Windows versions!) for our accessibility testing lab. https://ocio.nih.gov/ITGovPolicy/NIH508/Pages/NATLab.aspx


Gary

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  Hello, it is a shame that nuance has decided did to stop supporting this product. I use it heavily. Because the Apple alternative which appears to be a dressed up Siri, that’s just simply not ready for prime time. Where is Dragon six standalone professional for the Mac still seems to do the job quite well. The reason why I continue to use this apparently discontinued product, is simply because it works with a small amount of errors. As opposed to the Apple product I don’t think it was meant for people who really do need dictation software. I did Beta test Apple’s dictation software.

I’m not going to speculate here as to why Nuance decided to discontinue supporting Dragon for the Mac. Because now there is no leverage to push Apple to improving the product.

Sincerely Mauri d Mines.


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On 21 Nov 2019, at 11:18, Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E] via Trainer-Talk
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> Now that Nuance has stopped producing Dragon for Mac, what speech 
> recognition software applications has anyone found to use successfully 
> on Mac notebooks?  Is anyone using Dragon for Mac v.6, simply without 
> official support from Nuance?
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