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Posts Tagged → dictation

A Survey of Voice-to-Text Options on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone

posted in dictation, dragon dictate, siri dictation on June 25, 2019

A lot of folks have been asking me what I’m doing about voice-to-text dictation now that Nuance has officially pulled out of the Mac and appears to have relatively abandoned iOS. If this is news to you, Nuance, the makers of Dragon Professional Individual…

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Streaming Voice Dictation in iOS 8

posted in dictation on July 23, 2014

Apple announced streaming voice dictation in Siri, which shows you your words as you speak them, at WWDC. This feature has existed on Android for awhile and it is something I’d very much like to see on iOS. However, Apple was mum on adding…

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Macworld Agrees: Dragon Dictate 4 is Better

posted in dictation on March 24, 2014

Today Kirk McElhearn weighed in for Macworld on the new Dragon Dictate. It’s better. I thought version 3 was pretty good and yet version 4 is noticeably better. I’ve received some email from readers following my initial thoughts on Dragon Dictate 4 on two…

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Dragon Dictate, Version 4 – A Worthy Upgrade

posted in dictation on March 6, 2014

This week, Nuance released version 4 of Dragon Dictate for the Mac. I remember the days when dictation software on the Mac couldn’t hold a candle to that on the PC. We had applications like MacSpeech, which tried their best, but never could keep…

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Mavericks Dictation vs Dragon Dictate

posted in dictation on November 22, 2013

Macworld published an article I wrote today comparing the accuracy of Dragon Dictate vs. Mavericks Dictation. Short version: Dragon wins but I still have use for Mavericks Dictation. ∞

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Flipping a Coin with Siri

posted in dictation, siri on October 1, 2013

David Chartier at Finer Things in Tech points out that Siri can roll dice and flip a coin. As an attorney, I actually have a lot more cause to flip coins than you’d think. ∞

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My Sony Dictation Recorder

posted in dictation on August 13, 2013

I once mentioned on a MPU episode that I use a small digital recorder with Dragon Dictate. Since then I’ve had a lot people asking which recorder I use. It’s this one (Amazon Affiliate Link). I picked this up at an office supply store…

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Voice Dream for Instapaper and Pocket Text to Speech

posted in dictation on August 8, 2013

On the heels of our recent Read it Later show, I received an email from listener David Ianni concerning an app I’d never heard of before, Voic Dream ($10). If you’ve ever wanted to have your iPhone read out loud entries from your Instapaper or Pocket…

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Dragon Voice Dictation on iPhone

posted in dictation, iphone gem on December 8, 2009 6 Comments

I am a big fan of the voice recognition software. I use Nuance’s Dragon Dictate on the PC and MacSpeech Dictate on my Mac. I was very pleased to see that Nuance, the developer of the Dragon engine, has released a Dragon Dictate iPhone app.…

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