#Dragon dictation software for mac for mac#

Most software developers either ignore the Mac market or look at the Mac OS as an afterthought. Windows dominates the market with an 88% share so that's where the money is. From watching television, you would think that the Mac OS is used on half of desktop, notebook and tablet computers but it's actually less than 10%.

#Dragon dictation software for mac for mac#

Dragon versions for Mac were accurate but much less featured than the Windows versions. Developing anything on the Mac side tends to be far less profitable and typically receives less attention.

Nuance probably couldn't justify the R&D cost of supporting Mac while developing other markets such as cloud computing on Windows and independent versions of AI. Nuance may have originally planned on continuing the consumer DPI6 version of Dragon for Mac but decided to 86 it 3 weeks after 86ing Dragon Medical. However, you can use VMware Fusion, for example, to run Microsoft Windows on the Macintosh, which in turn can run the Windows versions of Dragon. I am not aware of any other alternative than Apple's own dictation, which makes more errors than Dragon. Trying to use Dragon for selecting text and correcting previous mistakes generally makes a royal mess of your document. Otherwise, the opportunity to train the program will be lost. The only reasonable way to use Dragon on the Mac that I found is by using a headset microphone that keeps both of my hands free for typing and for correcting mistakes immediately. Neither do Nisus Writer, Libre Office, and Mellel. The cache document command has to be used frequently. Scrivener version 2 works more or less as well. Dictating into Firefox works reasonably well also. The next stable programs are Microsoft Word 2016 and Google Docs using the Chromebrowser. The most stable text program to use is Apple's TextEdit.

Unfortunately, Dragon Individual Professional for Mac version 6 does not work properly with most text programs. Alternatives to Dragon Dictate for the Mac OSX community