Dragon Professional Individual is the latest version of speech recognition software from Nuance. It delivers fast speech recognition at work that is up to 3 times faster than typing to boost productivity. Dragon speech recognition software turns your spoken words into text and executes voice commands, quickly and accurately. The all-new Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, V6, a smarter next-generation speech recognition solution empowers busy professionals to complete documentation and reporting quickly and accurately on the Mac, so you spend more time on activities that boost the bottom line.
Compose emails and instant messages and write documents by speaking the words to your computer with the help of this powerful speech recognition software
Formerly known as Dragon NaturallySpeaking Home, Dragon Professional Individual provides users with the possibility to create documents by just speaking the words to their computers. The software tool can be used to compose emails and instant messages and to write documents fast.
With the help of this application, users can even surf the Internet by speaking the commands or search queries. Thus, the interaction with the computer peripherals is minimized, and users can sit back and relax while the tool does the work for them.
According to the developer, Dragon Professional Individual provides up to 99% accuracy when it comes to recognizing spoken words, and can transform speech into text up to three times faster that the average person can type. It can also offer considerable time savings to all those who take advantage of its capabilities.
The software program can learn to recognize user's voice instantly, and has been designed to continuously improve its responsiveness and accuracy as it is being used. Thus, users can take advantage of its capabilities to dictate and edit text in almost all applications, including Microsoft Office, web browsers, and instant messengers.
The program installs fast and can be used immediately after the installation process has been completed, even if the user does not possess advanced computer skills. There are on-screen help and tutorials that allow people to learn more about the capabilities of the program as they use it.
System requirements
- RAM: Minimum 2 GB for 32-bit Windows 7, 8 & 8.1; 4 GB for 64-bit Windows 7, 8 & 8.1 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012
- CPU: Minimum 2.2 GHz Intel dual core or equivalent AMD processor. Faster processors yield faster performance.
- Free hard disk space: 4 GB (8 GB for electronic download)
- Internet Explorer 9 or higher or the current version of Chrome or Firefox for Online Help
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- 15% more out-of-the-box accuracy than Dragon 12—means that Dragon gets you, and you get things done, faster than ever
- Learn from Sent Email tool now works with Web-based email such as Gmail and Yahoo! Mail—you have more potential sources to let Dragon familiarize itself with the words and phrases you might write
- The new Vocabulary Editor interface makes it easy to search Dragon’s vocabulary, add new words and customize each word’s unique properties
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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:
- Install Parallels Desktop on your Intel Mac
- Set up a virtual operating system using Windows XP using Parallels
- Install Dragon NaturallySpeaking on the Windows XP virtual machine using the standard methods of Dragon installation
- 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).
- 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.
- 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:
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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.
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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