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Using our voice to control computers has never really taken off. For many of us, using voice recognition technology wasn’t even a consideration until features like dictation and Siri arrived on our iPhones and iPads. There’s good reason too: the voice recognition features built into our devices have always had the reputation of being half-baked. They simply aren’t accurate and consistent enough to replace our tried and trusted mouse and keyboard or touchscreen. While half decent dictation features (and are powered by Nuance’s technology), the voice recognition features you get with latest version of go well beyond simply dictating speech to text. When people think Nuance and Dragon Dictate they typically think speech to text dictation features.
After reading a bit of text and walking through a brief tutorial (about 10 minutes total), the app is remarkably accurate at understanding your voice and dictating speech consistently. If you haven’t tried full-blown dictation software like Dragon in recent years like myself, you’ll truly be amazed at how precise the program is at dictating error-free text as you speak naturally.
There’s no need to speak slowly and carefully to make sure every word is recognized, and there’s no waiting around for the software to catch up to what you’re saying. So will I be writing my articles for 9to5Mac by simply speaking and having Dragon dictate from now on? Dragon Dictate won’t let you plow through a 5000 word piece nearly as quick as you’d type it, mainly because learning the commands necessary for formatting and corrections is like learning a new language.
Basic commands seem easy enough to remember while dictating— Caps on, close quote, comma, ‘apostrophe ess’, insert, correct, new line— but in practice having to speak commands to properly format a sentence as you dictate takes away from the freedom of being able to capture your thoughts as you speak freely. I personally found the software much more useful for composing short snippets of text that typically don’t require much formatting or a deep train of thought that might be interrupted by formatting commands, like emails, Tweets, reminders, lists, and brainstorming sessions. Of course, that process becomes much easier as you memorize and become more comfortable with the commands. While for me it won’t be replacing my keyboard on a daily basis for writing, that doesn’t mean with a little practice dictation in Dragon Dictate 4.0 can’t be a powerful alternative if necessary.
Dragon Dictate has long been a popular product among those with medical conditions like arthritis that limit the ability to type comfortably or at all. Admittedly your mileage with accuracy might vary depending on your accent (I was using the U.S. Setting since there is no Canadian accent preference), but there are also region settings for the UK, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada and India, as well as accent preferences for American, American- Inland Northern, American- Southern, American- Teens, Australian, British, Indian, Latino, and Southeast Asian. For me, the real standout feature of Dragon Dictate 4.0 is the ability to control applications on your Mac using only your voice.
Dragon Dictate comes with a number of built-in commands that allow you to control functions across apps like Finder, Mail, Messages, Notes and Safari, as well as commands for composing email or sharing status updates to Facebook and Twitter. It also has a powerful built-in command editor that lets you setup your own voice commands for just about anything you can think of. Launch, quit, or hide applications, search the web, open a file or folder, or create a new reminder using only your voice. I set up commands for opening new tabs and navigating to specific tabs in Chrome, switching between or launching my commonly used full-screen apps by simply saying the app’s name, initiating playback in Logic Pro, as well as opening files and folders in Finder. The command editor is easy enough for anyone to setup commands for opening apps, bookmarks, files and folders, menu items, and any keystroke either system wide or within an app, but also has the ability to use AppleScript, Automator workflow, Shell script, and text macro for more complex voice commands. Once you get used to speaking to your Mac and asking it to do things, you’ll wonder why you always haven’t been searching the web, navigating Gmail, and launching and switching between apps and folders with your voice.
What’s new in 4.0: For those that have used previous versions of the software, the has a lot to offer on top of an overall bump in speed and accuracy. It includes the ability to transcribe from various audio formats like mp3, air, or wav files, a feature that previously required a separate $149 purchase of Nuance’s MacSpeech Scribe software. Once you select an audio file to be transcribed, Dragon Dictate immediately starts transcribing around 60 seconds of the file as best it can without any training— the accuracy of the initial text will depend a lot on the quality of the recording. After correcting or approving the 60 seconds worth of text it transcribes (I usually found a correction or two to be made every other line), the software takes a few minutes to create a profile for the audio and train itself to accurately transcribe the rest of the file. It’s not perfect, the final transcription typically had a number of errors to correct unless the audio source was the cleanest, professional voice recording imaginable with no background noise. The transcription also comes out as one big blob of text with no concern for punctuation or grammar.
Don’t expect a finished product quality transcription, but since it can transcribe the text in only a fraction of the actual length of the audio and pretty accurately, it will certainly trim a lot of time off transcriptions of long audio files. The new version also packs in a long list of commands specifically for controlling Gmail in Safari and Firefox with your voice, as well as some nice enhancements for dictating into Pages. The biggest issue I ran into with Dragon Dictate 4.0 was background noise getting picked up. There are commands to mute the mic, put it to sleep, or have it auto sleep, but that doesn’t do much to combat background noise when you have the mic on while dictating commands.
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On a few occasions background noise from either my devices, pets or the street would launch apps unexpectedly or begin dictating text when I wasn’t speaking. This was mostly an issue when using my Macbook’s built in mic and of course wouldn’t be a concern in a perfectly quiet room. It’s also partly your Mac’s fault; using a standalone vocal mic positioned properly, a headset, or the Dragon Remote app that turns your iPhone into a mic for your Mac will minimize these issues. Is it worth the cost? Dictation might not be faster than typing, but that’s not the point. The ability to transcribe voice memos and other audio files you’ve recorded on the go and control anything on your Mac with your voice would make Dragon Dictate an excellent value even without everything else it offers.
And for those that for some reason can’t type or just don’t want to, the dictation features are worth every penny if Apple’s built-in features simply aren’t enough. Dragon Dictate for Mac 4 usually sells for $199.99 but is.
Speech-to-text software, sometimes known as dictation software, is something that lets you talk to the computer in some form and have the computer react appropriately to what you are saying. This is, which is software can read out text already in the computer.
In this article you’ll learn about different types of speech-to-text software for Mac OS X, and what your options are if you want to use it to control your computer, dictate text, or both. In this article:. Dictation Software There are really only two options for dictation software when you are using Mac OS X. There is basic dictation software built into OS X, and there is a program developed by Nuance called. Dictate is the successor to a program named iListen which MacSpeech used to produce. All dictation-capable text-to-speech products work very well for some people and fairly badly for others.
Enhanced Dictation mode also allows real-time dictation and dictation when you’re not connected to the internet. To start you off with OS X’s dictation, here are some Apple support articles:.
The Ultimate – Nuance Dragon Dictate version 4, the current version, requires the requires Intel-based Macintosh hardware and requires Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 or higher and a Nuance-approved noise-cancelling headset microphone. Nuance’s Dragon is a much more complete product than OS X’s built in dictation, allowing you to mix dictation and commands without needing to use the keyboard or mouse.
For those who find keyboard or mouse use extremely difficult or impossible and wish to do as much as possible by voice, Dragon is still the only functional solution. Dragon also allows for transcription of recorded files, provided they only contain a single speaker and that person has already set up recognition. There is an iPhone/iPad app called specifically for recording files for later transcription.
The speech recognition engine which powers is the same as that powering, the premiere speech recognition program for Windows, and it is continually improving. Since 2008 when it was released, Dragon has made enormous improvements in speech recognition and it is much more forgiving and usable than it was then! I hope that improvements continue just as fast in the future – it’s a great thing for all users. For those just getting started, we have:. For those who are further advanced, make sure you subscribe for our email updates as there will be cheat sheets of Dragon Dictate commands available very soon.
– Ricky Pssssssst. If you liked this post, subscribe to our FREE email updates here. Ricky, I have recorded audios of my own presentations stored on my computer. I’d like to “play” them for transcription by the Enhanced Dictation feature but the system does not seem to recognize the audio being played. Any workaround?
If I have a new text document open, with the mic icon showing, then click on – say – an.aif file, the mic closes down. From one of the above comments, it appears I might use the audio-in jack (on my MacBook) from the digital recorder to deliver the speech/audio, but that’s a hassle: I’d have to reload recordings from my computer back to the voice recorder. Hope there’s a Better Way. Unfortunately, I’ve not found one which will work with Microsoft Word – not even Apple’s excellent dictation offerings (I have found Apple’s dictation to be quite productive, one with which I can find little criticism). Neither the dictation, nor text-to-speech works in the previous version of MS Office, nor in the upcoming one. Microsoft is starting to understand it is not the only game in town, however, there is little to indicate that it is learning from its mistakes – but this learning curve is too lengthy.
MS provides de minimis for those in the disability community. Disability support is a very hit and miss proposition as well in the Apple ecosystem pretty good on the Mac and still improving in IOS.
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Trying to use a font designed for dyslexics is near impossible in particular with Apple’s IOS garden. So how can that help a segment of the disability community? I’m about ready to give up on MS Office due to Microsoft’s apparent unwillingness in providing viable (and useable) dictation and text reading solution in the Office 2016 beta. As far as I can discern there ought to be little to preclude the use of Apple’s text-to-speech and dictation solutions presented in the operating system.
But who knows? Perhaps Apple has some obstacles to its implemented solutions – who can tell? Microsoft, from my thwarted attempts, can’t seem to even provide a form for feedback (and an appropriate response?) which certainly would cause this humble writer to not abandon the office suite altogether. For certainly despite Apple’s Page mediocrity, it does present as a viable alternative to MS Word although not a desired one. So come on Microsoft listen to your customers!