Go to a document or other text field and place the insertion point where you want your dictated text to appear. Press the keyboard shortcut for starting dictation, or choose Edit > Start Dictation. The default shortcut is Fn Fn (press the Fn key twice). For a long time if you wanted or needed to use a speech-to-text dictation program on your Mac, your only choices were MacSpeech Dictate (now defunct) and Nuance’s DragonDictate Stop Typing: Better Learn To Dictate Text with Dragon Dictate for Mobile Devices [iOS] Stop Typing: Better Learn To Dictate Text with Dragon Dictate for Mobile Devices [iOS] Nuance's iPhone apps, Dragon and Dragon.
Version 6.0: Note: Now requires OS X 10.11 or later.
Faster And More Accurate Than Ever:
- Up to 15% improved accuracy out of the box without training
- Continuous learning-even during dictation-for individually adapted accuracy improvements that enhance the user experience
- Optimal accuracy achieved for speakers with accents or in slight noisy environments such as in a cubicle environment.
Updated Application Support:
- Apple Pages
- Apple Keynote
- Apple Numbers
- Microsoft Outlook 2016
- Scrivener
Formatting and other Recognition Improvements, for Minimal Editing:
- 'three double two five' -> '3225'
- 'two point five million' -> '2.5 million'
- 'oh point five' -> '0.5'
- 'quarter of five' -> '4:45'
- 'eight pounds fifty' -> '£8.50'
- 'John dot Smith at Nuance dot com' -> [email protected]
- Better overall handling of Roman numerals
Improved User Interface and Experience:
- Clearer Full Text Control indicator on the new Guidance Window for an enhanced dictation experience
- Improved Status Window, Correction Window and streamlined Profiles management
- New License preference pane to manage licenses or subscriptions
- New automated backups of commands and vocabulary
- Improved Command management
- Faster startup time with optimizations throughout
Enhanced Transcription:
- Simplified user interface and better speaker management
- No training is required for transcription; you no longer need to initially transcribe and correct a short 90-second clip to achieve transcription accuracy
- Acoustic and language model adaptation are automatically leveraged for the current user
- No training is required for third-party transcription*; there is also better separation of current user data versus third-party speaker data
Mac Text To Speech Online
Transcription Batch Mode:
- Now use Batch Mode and save time if you have multiple audio files to transcribe. In the Transcription Window, simply drop as many files that you need to have transcribed to the 'Audio Files to Transcribe' list, and Dragon Professional Individual for Mac transcribes them all together, quickly and efficiently.
Improved Online Help:
Dragon Speech To Text Software
- Enhanced Help that gives users easier access to top searches
- Changing content on main help page with highly used topics
- Short tutorial videos integrated in Help for areas of high interest
- New troubleshooting sections
- Expanded navigational text that gives users more information/context
- More task-based dialog box help