

It is probably the number one timesaving piece of software I have on my computer. I’ve been using speech recognition for over 10 years now and I could not do without it. It’s quite hard to get your head around exactly what this feels like unless you give it a go. It allows you to speak into your computer, and it will convert that speech into text. Finally, for an interesting history of my use of Speech Recognition since the late 1990’s leading up to the Macintosh version of Dragon, click here! Introductionĭragon Dictate is the Macintosh version of Dragon Naturally Speaking, the famous PC voice recognition software. If you want to see how it compares with the built-in speech recognition in OS X Mavericks, check out this article.

If you are thinking about whether it is worth upgrading from version 3 check out this article.

This review is for people who had never used Dragon Dictate before.Ĭlick here for a Review of the newer ‘Dragon for Mac’ (released September 2015.) I’ve been playing around with Dragon Dictate version 4 for a few weeks now so it’s probably time I did a review.
