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Dragon Naturally Speaking Software For Mac

Dragon speech recognition software is better than ever. Speak and your words appear on the screen. Say commands and your computer obeys. Dragon is 3x faster than typing and it's 99% accurate. Master Dragon right out of the box and start experiencing big productivity gains immediately. Oct 30, 2018 Nuance, it seems, ran into some of the same problems when it made Dragon for Mac. Back in a 2016 user group presentation, Nuance R&D program manager Jeff Leiman noted how Apple's API restrictions left Nuance unable to implement some of the features it was able to offer for the Windows version.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Developer(s)	Nuance Communications
Initial release	June 1997; 23 years ago
Stable release	15 / September 2016; 3 years ago
Operating system	Microsoft Windows, macOS
Available in	8 languages
Type	Speech recognition
License	Proprietary
Website	www.nuance.com

Dragon NaturallySpeaking (also known as Dragon for PC, or DNS)^[1] is a speech recognition software package developed by Dragon Systems of Newton, Massachusetts, which was acquired first by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products and later by Nuance Communications, formerly known as ScanSoft. It runs on Windowspersonal computers. Version 15 (Professional Individual and Legal Individual),^[2] which supports 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, 8 and 10, was released in August 2016.^[3]^[4] The macOS version is called Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, version 6^[5] or Dragon for Mac.

Dragon Professional Individual 15.0, Dictate Documents and Control your PC – all by Voice, PC Download Aug 31, 2016 by Nuance Dragon 3.9 out of 5 stars 69.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13.0 is available as a free download on our software library. The most popular versions of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13.0, 12.0 and 11.5. This PC software is developed for Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 environment, 32-bit version. Dragon NaturallySpeaking relates to Multimedia Tools.
The industry leading speech recognition software used by doctors, lawyers, and other professionals to convert speech into text. Starting at $119.99 for the Premium Edition, Dragon has been used by thousands of professionals for dictation and transcription for over 30 years. Runs on both Windows and Mac.

Features[edit]

Dragon Naturally Speaking uses a minimal user interface. As an example, dictated words appear in a floating tooltip as they are spoken (though there is an option to suppress this display to increase speed), and when the speaker pauses, the program transcribes the words into the active window at the location of the cursor. (Dragon does not support dictating to background windows.) The software has three primary areas of functionality: voice recognition in dictation with speech transcribed as written text, recognition of spoken commands, and text-to-speech: speaking text content of a document. Voice profiles can be accessed by different computers in a networked environment, although the audio hardware and configuration must be identical to those of the machine generating the configuration. The Professional version allows creation of custom commands to control programs or functions not built into NaturallySpeaking.

History[edit]

Dr. James Baker laid out the description of a speech understanding system called DRAGON in 1975.^[6] In 1982 he and Dr. Janet M. Baker, his wife, founded Dragon Systems to release products centered around their voice recognition prototype.^[7] He was President of the company and she was CEO.

DragonDictate was first released for DOS, and utilized hidden Markov models, a probabilistic method for temporal pattern recognition. At the time, the hardware was not powerful enough to address the problem of word segmentation, and DragonDictate was unable to determine the boundaries of words during continuous speech input. Users were forced to enunciate one word at a time, clearly separated by a small pause after each word. DragonDictate was based on a trigram model, and is known as a discrete utterance speech recognition engine.^[8]

Dragon Systems released NaturallySpeaking 1.0 as their first continuous dictation product in 1997.^[9]

Joel Gould was the director of emerging technologies at Dragon Systems. Gould was the principal architect and lead engineer for the development of Dragon NaturallyOrganized (1.0), Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile Organizer (3.52), Dragon NaturallySpeaking (1.0 through 2.02), and DragonDictate for Windows (1.0). Gould also designed the tutorials in both DragonDictate for DOS version 2.0 and Dragon Talk.^{[citation needed]}

The company was then purchased in June 2000 by Lernout & Hauspie, a Belgium-based corporation that was subsequently found to have been perpetrating financial fraud.^[10] Following the all-share deal advised by Goldman Sachs, Lernout & Hauspie declared bankruptcy in November 2000. The deal was not originally supposed to be all stock and the unavailability of the Goldman Sachs team to advise concerning the change in terms was one of the grounds of the Bakers' subsequent lawsuit. The Bakers had received stock worth hundreds of millions of US dollars, but were only able to sell a few million dollars' worth before the stock lost all its value as a result of the accounting fraud. The Bakers sued Goldman Sachs for negligence, intentional misrepresentation and breach of fiduciary duty, which in January 2013 led to a 23-day trial in Boston. The jury cleared Goldman Sachs of all charges.^[11] Following the bankruptcy of Lernout & Hauspie, the rights to the Dragon product line were acquired by ScanSoft of Burlington, Massachusetts, also a Goldman Sachs client. In 2005 ScanSoft launched a de facto acquisition of Nuance Communications, and rebranded itself as Nuance.^[12]

As of 2012 LG Smart TVs include voice recognition feature powered by the same speech engine as Dragon NaturallySpeaking.^[13]

Versions[edit]

Dragon Naturally Speaking Version	Release date	Editions	Operating Systems Supported
1.0	June 1997	Personal	Windows 95, NT 4.0.
2.0	November 1997	Standard, Preferred, Deluxe	Windows 95, NT 4.0
3.0	October 1998	Point & Speak, Standard, Preferred, Professional (with optional Legal and Medical add-on products)	Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0.
4.0	August 4, 1999	Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical, Mobile	Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 SP3+.
5.0	August 2000	Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical	Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0 SP6+, 2000.
6.0	November 15, 2001	Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical
7.0	March 2003	Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical	Windows 98SE, Me, NT4 SP6+, 2000, XP.
8.0	November 2004	Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical	Windows Me (Only Standard and Preferred editions), Windows 2000 SP4+, Windows XP SP1+.
9.0	July 2006	Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical, SDK client, SDK server,	Windows 2000 SP4+, XP SP1+.
9.5	January 2007	Standard, Preferred, Professional, Le

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