Mossberg Reviews Dragon Dictate 3 For Mac
To further help Dragon understand your vocabulary choices and things you say frequently, you can have the program read files from your computer or email program. It will learn proper names and other specialized vocabulary that it might not have stored in its database. You can do this step at any time and as often as you like. You can also select your accent from a range of choices, such as American, Southern American, British, Indian, Latino, and so on. What's New in Version 3?
Aside from being slightly faster and more accurate than the previous version, Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 comes with a few other upgrades. The tool for editing and correcting text now has a window that helps guide you through the steps for making the correction more easily, and Dragon learns from these mistakes and fixes. There's also now support for importing audio files from a digital voice recorder and transcribing them in the app, although it takes a fair amount of setup on the first go. If you don't have a digital voice recorder that works with Dragon, you can download a free app for iOS that ultimately serves the same purpose, called. There are a few more goodies in terms of having better control over your customizations on specialized vocabulary, too, so that every time you say a word you've taught Dragon, like 'Android,' it will always be capitalized, for instance.
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Dragon in Action When I fired up Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 for the first time, I relied on my past experiences with the previous version of the program and therefore didn't face as steep a learning curve as I did the first time I ever touched dictation software. Once I had the app installed and configured appropriately for my voice, I used it to compose a few emails in Gmail and then start a draft of this very article.
I've also used Dragon for Mac in the past to write scripts, which is one of the best uses for the app I've found for my line of work. Script-writing couldn't benefit more from an application like Dragon Dictate, in which you are forced to 'write' as you speak.
I ran into some difficulties editing, but generally caught on to the commands, like 'end of line,' and 'new line' pretty quickly. The editing controls, like correcting a word, are less intuitive than some of the other functions in the program, but a few on-screen menus that pop up when editing help guide you toward the right replies.
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In Dragon Dictate for Mac, you can manually switch between a few modes, such as 'dictation' and 'command,' the latter being the one you use to operate your computer. For example, you can navigate a Web browser without using the mouse and keyboard if you learn the Dragon commands. Similar to the editing controls, command mode comes with its own series of menus that you can display on screen to help you learn what to say. Other visual cues that are front and center include the microphone going into sleep mode (a picture of stars and a moon) and turning the microphone off (red circle).