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With Dragon Dictate speech recognition software, you can use your voice to create and edit text or interact with your favorite Mac applications. Far more than just speech-to-text, Dragon Dictate lets you create and edit documents, manage email, surf the Web, update social networks, and more - quickly, easily and accurately, all by voice. Dragon dictate free download - Dragon Dictate, Dictate, Express Dictate, and many more programs. Record and send dictation directly from your Mac. Free to try Publisher: NCH Software Downloads.

Dragon Dictation makes it possible to transform voice to text and put your thoughts down anywhere anytime. All you need is the app installed on Windows, Mac, iPhone or Android phone and your voice. Let’s have a look what Dragon software you’d better choose and how to correctly use Dragon Dictation app for smartphones.

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How to Dragon Dictate on iPhone and Android

On the official Nuance Communications site you will find apps for home users, journalists and bloggers as well as apps for business users, drivers and medical workers. The one we observed is Dragon Dictation. It’s great for every day using. You can download Dragon Dictation app for iPhone or Android absolutely free or charge.

1. Open the Dragon Dictation app.
2. Set the Region you are in. It is required to precise the language of recognition.
   
3. Choose the Tap and Dictate button and begin to dictate.
   
4. When you are through, tap the Stop button. You will see a written text of your message. You can correct it using the keyboard.
5. Now you can copy the text to carry it over to any other app.
   

At the same time you may publish the dictated text on Twitter, send a message or an email with it.

If you want to change the language, go to Settings and choose the right one there. You can set other features like name recognition here.

Now, let’s run a test and check what this app can actually do.

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To make sure that Dragon app is as brilliant as it sounds, we dictated 5 text pieces to check the quality of recognition.

1. The first one was a short phrase from a famous Lullaby:

Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star.

Great result, but that was easy.

2. The second one was a long and sophisticated tongue twister:

Whether the weather is right, or whether the weather is not

Whether the weather is warm, or whether the weather is hot,

We’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather,

Whether we like it or not

As you can see, the written variant is not 100% correct.

3. The third piece is the description of Freemake Blog. We didn’t train these phrases so they looked natural with pauses and different intonation.

Freemake Blog is the place where we, Freemake team, share our findings of new and interesting apps, software and websites across the Web. Here you’ll learn about latest tech trends, visit hot destinations on the Net, get acquainted with web influencers and laugh at our funny discoveries. Feel free to contact Freemake Blog team.

Unfortunately, the app fails here.

4. The fourth one is said in Scottish English:

Dinnae fuss, Gonninae dae that! Macbook pro 2008 takes long time to download. Software to download videos from sony handycam to macbook pro 15.

Which means “Don’t worry, I’m not going to do that”. And it was a complete fail. So as it is impossible in the general mode, for dialects recognition create a profile and modify Accent.

Well, if you live in Scotland, try to speak general English when you use Dragon Dictation app.

5. And the last one is a French phrase we decided to try a different language.

“J’ai le mal de la Seine” – I adore river the Seine.

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This time the app showed a nice result again.

Dragon Tips and Tricks for Advanced Users

Using Dragon app for a long time but your text leaves much to be desired? Try these tips and tricks to improve the quality of your speech recognition:

• Don’t dictate if the background is noisy.
• Position the microphone near your mouth.
• Try to use the same volume, pace and tone every time you dictate.
• If you want to use punctuation, say the items’ names like comma or full stop.

While dictating, you are welcome to use the following voice commands:

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Give me help, Set for Arial (or any other font), Bold that, Delete previous character/5 words, Spell, Select “Twinkle” (or any other word), New line/paragraph, Undo that, etc.

To see the complete list of commands, ask the Dragon app: “What can I say?”. Visual studio download for mac.

The Good:

• Dragon App is free for smartphones where you most need it.
• It is really fast at typing your words.
• Your text can be easily shared on social networks.
• Can be used on the go.
• The interface is stylish and user-friendly, so you don’t need to be a software pro to use it.
• The app is very useful for students as they can easily epitomize their lectures.
• It is as well helpful for language learning as you can obtain a right pronunciation using it.

The Bad:

• No note storage.
• You need a reliable Internet connection for dictating.
• If you use 3G or 4G, it might lead to expensive network charges.
• There is no button to erase all the dictated text so you have to delete it with the keyboard, which is not so convenient.
• The result isn’t always precise.
• The proper pronouns are mostly not correct.

Verdict:

As you see the Dragon Dictation App is the most suitable for short and prepared phrases. Nonetheless, it is a great app to write your ideas down hands-free.

Dragon Desktop Options

Apart from numerous iPhone and Android apps, Nuance Communications also develop software for computers. Dragon Software in its turn is not free. There are four options for Windows users:

• Dragon Home for $74.99 is great for bloggers and students for dictating lectures, blog posts and varies to-do’s.
• Dragon Premium for $174.99 has more options than Dragon Home. For example, it lets you dictate via Bluetooth set. Dragon Premium is perfect for capturing documents, surf the Net, send emails, etc.
• Dragon Professional Individual for $300 gives powerful customization features and is a must-have for working with business documents.
• Dragon legal Individual for $500 includes a specialized legal vocabulary and lets you work with contracts, briefs and other docs just by using your voice.

Those who prefer to use Mac can benefit from two options:

• Dragon for Mac for $300 that is fully customizable and can work with presentations, emails, spreadsheets and, of course, documents.
• Dragon for Mac medical starting form $999 lets capture or improve clinical documentation fast and easily.

Check how it works on Mac:

Dragon Dictation’s working principles are similar to those of Siri, Google or Cortana, it recognizes speech and then converts it into words. It is really easy to use and can amaze you with a quick and precise result.

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Installing Dragon Naturally Speaking on an Intel based Macintosh

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is the recognized leader in continuous speech recognition technology. Until recently, owners of Apple computers have been unable to use this software and have been limited to the use of iListen and IBM ViaVoice. Now, with Intel based Apple Macintosh computers and the presense of Parallels, Apple users have the option of installing and using Dragon on a 'virtual operating system' on their systems. The process is described here.

Prerequisites for this include the following:

• An intel based Macintosh
• Parallels Software
• Windows XP or Vista installation Disk
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking
• All necessary microphone hardware (we recommend using a good quality microphone and a USB adapter

We have found the following method, adapted from the method presented by 'Webair' on the Parallels Forum, to be an effective method of running Dragon NaturallySpeaking on an Intel based Macintosh.

Preliminaries:Before using this method it is important that you accomplish the following:

1. Install Parallels Desktop on your Intel Mac
2. Set up a virtual operating system using Windows XP using Parallels
3. Install Dragon NaturallySpeaking on the Windows XP virtual machine using the standard methods of Dragon installation
4. Before actually setting up a microphone and configuring a new user in Dragon, follow the steps listed below.

Configuration: With the preliminaries accomplished, your system should be configured as follows:

• In the Mac OS please go to the 'System Preferences' - 'Sound' - 'Input' - highlight your device in the list (this will make it the default audio input device for Mac).

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• Set the input volume in the Preference pane so that the microphone input level peaks near the middle of the bar range (editors note: alternatively set the level in the mid to upper range)
  
• With your virtual machine stopped, Start Parallels Desktop, choose your virtual machine (VM). In Configuration Editor in the USB Controller section turn'Autoconnect USB devices' to OFF (or un-check the 'Enabled' button).

• In Configuration Editor, in the Audio tab, choose the Default Audio as the input device.

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• Run the virtual machine.
  
• Voice settings for Playback and Recording in the Windows XP Control Panel should be left at “Intel[r] Integrated Audio”.
  
• Start and run NaturallySpeaking in the normal fashion. With no other audio input available, it will default to the 'intel integrated audio' during audio set-up.

Notes:

In our experience, the above method allows use of NaturallySpeaking on the Windows 'Virtual Machine' and dictation into all text input windows on the Windows side, but will not provide input into documents on the Mac side, even in the 'coherence' mode.

Another peculiarity of this method is that with when a USB microphone is disconnected, the link between the Macintosh and Windows side is lost and does reconnect unless the virtual machine is closed and re-opened (a 5 second process). It is not, however, necessary to actually restart the Windows operating system to reconnect - you need only open and close the virtual machine. For some 'road warriors' this may have implications. Likewise for the user that has the need to connect and reconnect the USB microphone or device throughout the day, this poses a minor annoyance.

Comments on these recommendations? Have you discovered a better method of setting up Dragon NaturallySpeaking on an Intel-based Mac? Please share your findings with us and we'd be delighted to post them. Contact: jon@speechrecsolutions.com