Hi Maurice, First of all, thanks for taking the time to write, or should I say, dictate this message. The dictation was excellent. I will use a braille display as well. In part, I decided to purchase this from Nuance last week, as they had a holiday special whereby I received the software and a USB microphone for $99.99. I don't think the price will go lower than that, so I took the plunge. Now, when one purchases, one has 30 days to evaluate and if necessary, return the product, so it's worth the gamble. If this works out for me, I also think it will provide a potential training opportunity since I provide consulting and training services. I sure hope the Dictate product is comparable to Naturally Speaking for Windows. There was a Dragon Dictate for the PC which I believe was far inferior to Naturally Speaking which came later. One point I will add based on the instructions that came with the software is that one should not plug the USB microphone into a USB hub; I'm glad they mentioned that, as I would have done this as the hub is easier to access than are the ports on the back of my iMac. Anyway, I will be setting this up tomorrow, and I will definitely go through the training. Thanks again.
Les On Dec 26, 2012, at 6:20 PM, Maurice Mines <maurice.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am going to respond to many different things with this one message I hope. > Number one, I use Dragon with a braille display. I do also have the speech > from VoiceOver turned on. One of the things that is very helpful I think is > that you must go to the training that is part of the Dragon set up. To when > setting up Dragon please be aware that the default microphone setup is an > iPhone. So if you don't have an iPhone currently, you may wish to have a > sighted person help you go into the headset set up. Once you find the > headphone set up, please do what I mentioned up above i.e. go through the > complete training. Now let me move on to one person who mentioned a concern > about product ratings in his email to the list. I don't hold much belief in > online reviews of products. Because some of the reviewers are not > professionals, and/or may have a grudge against the product manufacturer. The > reason why I found Dragon to be successful. Is because I used a very early > version of the Microsoft Windows version of the same product. And it worked > for me was my additional disability. So that is why am continuing to use it > now. I'm assuming that the next question is going to be what version of > Dragon is appropriate. The Windows product has three different versions, the > version for the Mac only has one version is Fars I know. That is the $200 > version, it would be comparable comparable, to the NaturallySpeaking version > in Windows. I think the last tip that I will leave you all with is it is > important to speak slowly enough that you can read your braille display > should you have one. Because I think that it is important to see what you're > writing in a written form. That way you catch the occasional mistake. I guess > I want to stress that dictation products whatever it is is only roughly 85%. > If you have any more questions I will answer them, both to the best of my > ability and when I have time to. Sincerely Maurice mines. note I am using > Dragon 3.0 for the Mac. So hopefully you get a good idea of how good, or bad, > the dictation is? Note number two. I'm using this on a MacBook Pro 15 inch > with a 2.3 GHz processor that has four cores on it and four gig of RAM. No it > does not have one of the retina displays. I've like to thank you all that > advance, for reading this? > On Dec 26, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Les Kriegler <kriegle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Maurice, >> >> Okay, a few questions for you. Do you use VoiceOver with Dragon Dictate? >> How do you review your documents? In other words, when you dictate a >> phrase, is it automatically read back or do you use other Dragon commands to >> review what you've dictated? Does the program include a decent manual from >> within the help facility to identify all of the commands one can use? >> Thanks for the assist. >> >> Les >> On Dec 26, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Maurice Mines <maurice.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello, I have a couple of things to add to this discussion. I use Dragon >>> dictate 3.0 for the Mac because of an additional disability that prevents >>> me from writing normally. Things one should keep in mind, is that Siri is >>> intended for such task as very short messages, text messages, and very >>> simple writing tasks. However Dragon is intended for someone who is >>> involved in business, and were writing for professional purposes and also >>> if one's disability precludes writing in the traditional physical sense. >>> What I'm trying to get at here to explain to you is this. If you have a >>> situation where writing is extreme problem for you either physically or >>> through some other issue. Then use these two applications in this manner >>> would be my very strong suggestion. Use theory for one or two sentence >>> paths. But if you have a full business letter, term paper, or other >>> business related correspondence that requires it to be spelled right, and >>> written right the first time. Then using Dragon is certainly an extremely >>> viable option. Just my two cents worth, Maurice Mines. >>> On Dec 26, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Les Kriegler <kriegle...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I just purchased Dragon for the Mac and am wondering if anyone has used >>>> this software and how it works with VO. I've had experience with Dragon >>>> Naturally Speaking for the PC with Jaws and the extensive scripts. >>>> Specifically, I am wondering if VO will automatically read back text after >>>> it has been dictated? 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