Dragon Dictate for Mac Solutions

What's New in Dictate 3

Smart Format Rules

• Dragon Dictate for Mac 3's new Smart Format Rules allow Dragon to adapt by detecting your format corrections – abbreviations, numbers, and more — so your dictated text looks the way you want it to every time. Learn how.

Transcription

• Use a Nuance-approved digital voice recorder or compatible iOS device with our free Dragon Recorder app to record thoughts for later transcription to your Mac. This video shows the transcription basics. 

Interactive Tutorial

• A new interactive tutorial in Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 guides you through fun exercises that demonstrate best practices for dictating, editing and formatting so that you can get up and running quickly.

Read That

• Review your words by listening to a new, natural text-to-speech voice from Nuance in Dragon Dictate for Mac 3. Text-to-speech capabilities within Dragon deliver a synthesized voice that can read out loud text you designate – learn how.

Working with New Mountain Lion Apps

• This video showcases how Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 works with Mountain Lion and its new apps, such as Notes, Reminders, Messages and more.

Dictation & Editing

Commands Editor

• Dragon Dictate’s Commands Window is a powerful tool for creating, editing and customizing commands. You can enable and disable any of the built in commands, build custom commands, or create custom commands associated with an application, file, folder and more. Learn how. 

Editing Documents

• Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 includes more choices to make it quicker and easier to make a change. The Correction Menu suggests more alternate recognitions by default and when you do need to make a correction, Dragon learns, making it more accurate the more that you use it.

General Dictation

• Dragon quickly processes the recognition of speech in the background with a discreet indicator that recognition is in progress. This encourages continuous speech which enables Dragon to improve accuracy based on the context of each utterance. This video provides tips and best practices for general dictation.

Simple Correction

• See how the correction process using Dragon Dictate 3.0 works in this quick feature vignette.

Vocabulary Editor

• The Vocabulary Editor lets you expand Dragon’s existing vocabulary by adding in your own custom words. Add words, acronyms, and proper names to teach Dragon how you pronounce those words. Learn how to customize how you want built-in and custom vocabulary words to appear.

Spell That

• Use the "Correct" command to add the correct spelling of proper names in the Vocabulary of Dragon Dictate. Learn how.  

Commands & Other Features

Play That Back

• With the “Play that Back” voice command, Dragon lets you play back the audio of your latest dictation. Learn how.

Read That

• Review your words by listening to a new, natural text-to-speech voice from Nuance in Dragon Dictate for Mac 3. Text-to-speech capabilities within Dragon deliver a synthesized voice that can read out loud text you designate – learn how. 

Posting to Facebook and Twitter

• Dragon’s time-saving voice commands consolidate multiple mouse clicks and keystrokes into a direct voice command. With version 3, you can quickly and easily post to Facebook or Twitter at any time – no matter what application is currently active on the screen.  

Searching the Internet

• Dragon makes it easy to surf the Web hands-free by delivering the ability to click links by voice, dictate web addresses, scroll pages and more. You can even navigate radio buttons and drop-down menus by voice.

Adding a New Source

• This video shows you how to add an audio source – above and beyond the regular microphone – to your current profile, such as a Bluetooth wireless headset.

Dragon Remote Microphone

• Achieve optimal dictation accuracy without the traditional headset wires. Go wireless with the free Dragon Remote Microphone app. Learn how to set up and use the Dragon Remote Microphone application to convert your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch or a compatible Android device into a wireless microphone for use with Dragon Dictate.