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Dragon Dictate Mac Mojave update

Mac OS update no longer working for Dragon Dictate using Mohave OS.


After 2 months of waiting for the Mohave Dragon Mac update, today their support told me that the Mac update is on hold. They're not able to manufacture the update and may drop the product for Mohave and future OS's updates.


Question: Is there another product that anyone is using that will replace Dragon for Mac?

Posted on Nov 12, 2018 9:35 AM

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Posted on Nov 12, 2018 12:58 PM

I did a Google search and found the Mac speak to text dictation in the system prefs. It will provide a "Good" not great replacement for Dragon Dictate. The Mac dictation works well if you say a full sentence. If you pause the next word gets capitalized on each pause.

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Nov 12, 2018 12:58 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

I did a Google search and found the Mac speak to text dictation in the system prefs. It will provide a "Good" not great replacement for Dragon Dictate. The Mac dictation works well if you say a full sentence. If you pause the next word gets capitalized on each pause.

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Nov 12, 2018 9:44 AM in response to vaughnfromsedona

For any sort of reliability with any speech recognition, you generally need a discrete microphone and a very quiet environment.


¿Have you evaluated the built-in speech recognition in the Mac, without adding software?


Use your voice to enter text on your Mac - Apple Support

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Dec 1, 2018 12:31 PM in response to vaughnfromsedona

It really is a loss for Nuance to completely pull out of Macintosh support. Yes, their program did not work as well on a Mac because the control and correction features were bug laden and caused multiple crashes. The program does work well for straight forward speech recognition to get thoughts down on the screen rapidly, saving edits for the keyboard. The program can only learn one new word at a time for the vocabulary file, having to save the entire file after each addition, really time consuming and frustrating but probably necessary because of it's frequent crashes. I learned to write necessary new words down on paper and then add them to the program one at a time after dictating and avoiding any on screen voice recognization of correction and editing commands and with this scheme the program was serviceable for me for complex report dictation. Now with it's demise there is a huge void in the Mac world for voice recognition dictation. A PC is not the answer for me; I have been on that route for too many years. Probably the best option will be PC emulation on the Mac to run Dragon Naturally Speaking V15, but I shudder to think what that is going to cost as my MacBook Air has only 4 GB of memory, which is not sufficient to do PC emulation along with DNS15. What little respect that I had for Nuance as a 25 year Dragon user on multiple platforms has really gone down the drain. Somebody needs to come along and put them out of business, in my opinion.

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Dec 1, 2018 1:14 PM in response to vaughnfromsedona

I'm going to answer my own question, in that, I found even a better solution.I'm using it right now, To dictate the answer to this question. I use the Apple dictation app that was built into the preferences on the Apple Mac. I purchasing a microphone from Amazon ($11.00) that worked beautifully through the USB port. When I dictate it doesn't miss anything.

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Jan 7, 2019 8:47 AM in response to barbesky

I thought I'd add some information on this. I'm currently using Dragon for Mac 5.0.5 running High Sierra, and it works extremely well, and it was for that reason that I came to this post, as I'm thinking of upgrading to Mojave, but was wondering whether I would lose the Dragon functionality!!

Anyway, I have been using a really great bluetooth headset that works well with both Dragon for Mac (on High Sierra) and also with the built-in Mac dictation feature, and that bluetooth headset is the Plantronics Savi W745 Headset...BUTit cost me around $200.00 when I bought it from Walmart online back in March 2016. Today i tried the Mac dictation and I can report that the Mac dictation cannot perform anywhere close to what I'm getting with Dragon for Mac 5.0.5 WITH High Sierra, so I think I'll be staying with High Sierra for awhile!!

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