'We set out earlier this year to bring Dragon to the Mac, working closely with our experts from the MacSpeech team,' says Mahoney. For example, a Mac user can now voice-initiate a web search.Īccording to Peter Mahoney, senior vice president and general manager for Dragon at Nuance, Dragon Dictate for Mac version 2.0, improves on the accuracy and performance of MacSpeech Dictate 1.5, leveraging the new Dragon 11 engine (used in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 for the PC). Uses for Dragon Dictate for Mac include creating and editing documents, writing email, navigating the desktop, conducting web searches and interacting with applications.

Nuance also offers MacSpeech Scribe, which is intended just for personal transcription, producing text from recorded audio.

Like Dragon NaturallySpeaking on Windows, Dragon Dictate for Mac is intended for voice-based activities including creating both text entry and voice control. According to Nuance, Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.0 is an update from MacSpeech Dictate 1.5, as well as incorporating other Nuance technology plus new features. Nuance speech recognition products for other platforms include Dragon NaturallySpeaking, for which Nuance released version 11 in July. The release offers Mac users the new speech recognition speed and capabilities available to Windows users in version 11 of Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking combined with the familiar user interface and other features of MacSpeech Dictate, according to the company.ĭragon Dictate for Mac 2.0 is the Nuance's first major desktop speech recognition product for Mac OS X since Nuance acquired MacSpeech and its MacSpeech Dictate - for which MacSpeech had licensed underlying Dragon dictation technology - iListen, and other products earlier this year. Nuance Communications has launched version 2.0 of its Dragon Dictate for Mac speech recognition program.

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