The problem starts any time the user wants to make a change. The software does a pretty good job of following my voice and putting words on the screen. But Dragon Dictate for Mac is in a class of its own for software bugs.
![]() ![]() Dragon Dictate Review Series Of YouTubeThis gives you a good basic overview of Dragon Express in action, interesting on the post to twitter that the you can not dictate to click the OK button but still need to mouse click, which clearly shows the cut down nature of this software. If you have more questions on Dragon Express which I have not covered head over to the Nuance – Dragon Express FAQ.Be warned, it’s a hefty download at 1.21Gb (Lion only – OS X 10.7) – virtually all of that download will be the dictionary that Dragon uses that holds words and context.Have you tried Dragon Express? Let me know what you thought by leaving a comment.Below is a video demo of Dragon Express for Mac in action from the “Ask The Dictator” series of YouTube video from Nuance. I would like to see a discount off Dragon Dictate 2.5 if you have Dragon Express installed but until Dragon Dictate appears in the Mac App Store this is a tricky one to manage and therefore isn’t yet available. Not quite a free trial but a good general overview of the Dragon speech recognition technology and the great work Nuance are doing in the Apple space. From the Dragon Express window you can then post or route the transcribed text to any active app – so for example into TextEdit, twitter, Facebook, Google+, email or a Word or Pages document.If you are interested in giving speech recognition a try then this is an excellent and cost effective way to see what it is all about.The Mac app is defiantly worth a try and in the FAQ it does mention a discount if you upgrade although I have a feeling that probably just applies in the US, I am still trying to clarify this. The iPad app is just a gimmick if you like to see how voice recognition works without the ability to train a profile, your audio is just recorded and sent to to a Nuance server for generic processing. Interesting, I have struggled to find the press release (the link on the Nuance page goes nowhere).The key difference between the iPad app and the app for the Mac is the ability to train. At the time of posting this blog post there were only five comments on the YouTube video, most of them highly critical – I state again, using the in-built MacBook or iMac mic will not give highly accurate results, do yourself a favour and buy yourself a USB noise cancelling headset and mic before you try this software.Thanks for stopping by and for leaving a comment. New photo booth effects for macI plant to download the app and give it a try in the next week or so. Using a good quality noise cancelling mic with this app will make a difference I am sure. I am with you, Plantronics make some great quality mics and are also very well priced.
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