Frequently Asked Questions on Dragon Assistant
Dragon Assistant 1.5 supports integration to Exchange server through the Outlook 2013 client application only.
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Nuance has announced that the company has discontinued Dragon Professional Individual for Mac. This was the most recent name of the company’s speech recognition software for macOS. Following the acquisition of MacSpeech in 2010, Nuance created Dragon Dictate, a Mac version of their popular Windows speech recognition software.
- After six updates to the current version of Dragon Professional Individual for Mac (including one that was subsequently pulled after it turned the program from a crashing, buggy mess into an even worse crashing, buggy mess), it appears Nuance may finally have delivered a stable version of the product.
- Next-Generation Speech Engine – Dragon Professional Individual for Mac is powered by the latest version of the Dragon speech recognition engine, and leverages Deep Learning technology. This is the same state-of-the-art technology used by Dragon NaturallySpeaking – the world’s #1 speech recognition software for the PC.
- Nuance® Dragon® Pro Individual Academic V.6 Speech Recognition Software, 1 User, Mac OS X, Online (S601A-F02-6.0) Item: IM14N5405 / Model: S601A-F02-6.0 Add to Favorites.
Dragon Assistant is the conversational personal assistant for your computer – just tell it to find content, get answers, play music, connect with friends and more.
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Frequently Asked Questions on Dragon Assistant:
- Can I use my own microphone with Dragon Assistant?
- What applications does Dragon Assistant interact with?
- What other kinds of thing can I do with Dragon Assistant?
- What applications can I dictate into?
- Is there a limit on how much I can dictate into an application?
- How do I start dictating?
- How do I get Dragon Assistant to listen to me?
Dragon Assistant is specially designed to work with the built-in array microphones on your machine and is the recommended choice for the best user experience.
Users may also use an external microphone, such as USB microphones or Bluetooth devices however the quality of these microphones and therefore the user experience may vary. The microphone being used must be selected as the default device in the Windows Operating System.
Users may also use an external microphone, such as USB microphones or Bluetooth devices however the quality of these microphones and therefore the user experience may vary. The microphone being used must be selected as the default device in the Windows Operating System.
Email program with good search option for mac for free. What applications does Dragon Assistant interact with?
You can use your speech to interact with Facebook, Twitter, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Skype and Internet Explorer and more. You can configure Dragon Assistant to work with your favorite e-mail and calendaring applications. You can also use your speech to search the web using Google, Bing or Yahoo.
You can control your computer and dictate into certain applications. To control your computer you can say things like: 'increase the volume' and 'decrease the volume'. To find out more, you can ask Dragon Assistant, 'what can I say?', and it will tell you.
Just about any! The best way to find out is to try it. Place your computer cursor in an area you would normally type into, then start dictation by a configurable hotkey. With next generation Dragon Assistant, you can start dictation by voice or double clicking or double tapping the icon as well.
There is a 30 second limit that applies to dictating into a supported application for Dragon Assistant v1.5x. For the next generation Dragon Assistant (v3.x), it can detect end of speech up to 60 second increments.
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Sometimes Dragon Assistant goes to 'sleep'. It does this so that it doesn't pick up any conversations you might be having that aren't with it. To 'wake' Dragon Assistant up, just say 'Hello Dragon'. If you want to use your fingers to wake Dragon Assistant, just click on the icon, or use a wake-up hotkey.
To make Dragon go to sleep say 'Go to sleep'.
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Yes you can. You can install Dragon Naturally Speaking on a machine that also has Dragon Assistant; however you can't run both applications at the same time. If you are running Dragon Assistant and you launch Dragon Naturally Speaking, the Dragon Assistant will exit.
Dragon Assistant 1.5 supports integration to Exchange server through the Outlook 2013 client application only.
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