Undeterred by the Dictation feature included in OS X Mountain Lion, Nuance has announced a new version of its own Mac software that makes Dragon Dictate faster, more accurate and more personal than ever.
Nuance has announced Dragon Dictate for Mac 3, a major new update to the company's leading voice recognition software which promises to be more powerful and accurate than any other solution currently available.
Touting a 15 percent increase in accuracy along with new Smart Format Rules and new correction capabilities, Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 also adds the ability to transcribe recorded audio files from a single speaker as well as sideband Bluetooth support.
“Dragon Dictate delivers an incredibly powerful voice experience for the Mac community, with the ability to not only speak text for documents, emails and more, but also command and control the Mac applications and features people use the most,” said Peter Mahoney, Chief Marketing Officer for Nuance and Senior Vice President, General Manager, Dragon.
“We’ve been incredibly focused on bringing new features and increased accuracy to this latest version of Dragon Dictate so Mac users can experience the accuracy, speed and productivity that results from speaking instead of typing.”
Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 is now available for preorder from the Nuance website for $199.99, with digital downloads ready on September 13 and physical product shipping on September 24. Registered owners of Macspeech Dictate or Dragon Dictate can also upgrade for $149.99.
Follow this article’s author, J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter
GerryO
October 07, 2012 at 9:59pm
I naively trusted... Don't make the same mistake.
Recently installed Dictate 3:
- Destroyed a perfectly good working MBP
- Without running Dictate, MBP lasts no longer than 15 minutes before crashes
- Starting Dictate causes MBP to freeze 50% of the time
- Installation of Dictate 3 blew away the 2.0 profile, so I have to re-train Dictate 3
- Dictate 3 does not recognise the microphone recognised by the previous version
- Requires use of the built-in mic that's on the MBP itself (does not recognise any other device, even though the OS does)
- Retraining would be lovely, if that was even possible
- Does not succeed in vocabulary training (will not actually succeed in loading a text file)
To top it off, I could not even register on their support site, as the serial number I received with purchase is declared as "invalid'.
I'm not even sure they tested this product.
0 out of 5 stars. Worst product experience ever.
