What's new in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 5.0.5 Build 13634
Apr 4, 2016
- Stability enhancements when editing text
- Resolves issues when quitting Dragon
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 5.0.4 Build 13631 (Dec 19, 2015)
- Addresses an issue where some microphones are not seen by Dragon after updating to 5.0.3.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 5.0.3 Build 13630 (Dec 16, 2015)
- Mic Setup improvements
- The Profiles preferences pane provides additional guidance
- The Status Window behaves better when using multiple displays
- Stability enhancements and Ui refinements
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 5.0.2 Build 13623 (Dec 14, 2015)
- Resolves issues affecting commands for customers who have upgraded from Dragon Dictate for Mac, version 4
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 5.0.1 Build 13622 (Dec 14, 2015)
- Compatibility with OS X El Capitan
- Overlapping text in the Status Window
- Displaying an incomplete list of correction choices
- Correction appears blank or flashes choices quickly
- Internal errors when creating or upgrading a profile
- Commands are read-only for Australia, New Zealand, India, and Singapore profiles
- Issues using bullet lists
- Readability of text in the Info area of the Status Window
- Stability improvements switching between Transcription and Dictation
- Issues with keyboard shortcuts
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 4.0.7 Build 13087 (Aug 28, 2015)
- Updated application signature required by Apple.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 4.0.6 Build 13086 (Nov 4, 2014)
- Addresses compatibility issues with OS X Yosemite.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 4.0.5 Build 13081 (Oct 10, 2014)
- Addresses compatibility issues with Safari 7.1.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 4.0.3 Build 13061 (Aug 6, 2014)
- Corrects an issue with Facebook and Twitter commands.
- Additional fixes.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 4.0.2 Build 13044 (Jun 20, 2014)
- Alerts customers to a support issue.
- Corrects recurring update messages.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 4.0.2 Build 13042 (Jun 20, 2014)
- Resolves issues with activation.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 4.0 (Mar 4, 2014)
- Powerful transcription:
- Supports various formats. Now transcribe from .mp3 audio files. Other supported formats include: .aif, .aiff , .wav, .mp4, .m4a, .m4v.
- Capture recorded notes. Accurately transcribe based on recorded sources instead of requiring training from a live source.
- Manage multiple sources. Allows for multiple transcription sources and easy transition between personal dictation and other transcription files.
- Blend recordings seamlessly. Easily transcribe your own voice memos from a smartphone or portable voice recorder into text and seamlessly mix and match transcribing from other recording sources.
- Customize your notes. You can keep all the customization and vocabulary from your profile without having to switch out to a different profile.
- More control:
- Do more with Gmail. Control your Gmail inbox within the Safari or Firefox browser with a few simple voice commands. Full Text Control lets you mix your talking and typing and still be able to edit, correct and format your text using voice commands.
- Go hands-free. Use your voice to click on any visible link and to open emails.
- Type or talk. Mix talking and typing with Full Text Control in Apple Pages 4.3.
- More accurate and faster:
- Higher performance. Get things done with drastically reduced latency and faster editing. As a pure 64-bit application, Dragon Dictate for Mac, version 4, now enables higher performance and improved memory management capabilities over previous versions.
- Enhanced recognition. Improved accuracy over version 3.x, with optimization for latest speech recognition technology.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 3.0.4 (Oct 31, 2013)
- Resolves issues with Word 2011 running under OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
- Resolves issues with Word 2011 documents that include a Table of Contents.
- Resolves issues with Dictate running under OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 3.0.3 (Aug 14, 2013)
- Enhanced warning and instruction when Accessibility is not enabled.
- Corrected issues posting to Twitter.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 3.0.2 (Feb 7, 2013)
- Addressed issues related to intermittent pauses when using Microsoft Word 2011.
- Addressed issues with cursor placement and word selection in lengthy Word 2011 documents.
- Enhanced warning and instruction when Microsoft Visual Basic is not detected.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 3.0.1 (Nov 20, 2012)
- Addressed issues related to extraneous characters and inverted characters appearing in dictation results in some applications.
- Addressed issues when correcting portions of addresses and times.
- Corrected an issue with inconsistent reporting of missing microphone.
- Added a progress indictor that appears when pasting large amounts of text.
- Corrected issues related to transcription of M4V file formats.
- Corrected inconsistent performance of the "Go back" command in Microsoft Word 2011.
- Addressed issues related to inconsistent behavior in the Express Editor.
- Aligned Voice Training Stories for US and UK English.
- Documentation fixes and updates.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 3.0 (Sep 6, 2012)
- Dragon gets you, with up to 99% accuracy - With up to a 15% improvement to out-of-the-box accuracy compared to Dragon Dictate 2, Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 just gets you, and you get your words on the screen the way you intended. And when you do need to make a correction, Dragon learns, making it more accurate the more that you use it.
- Make changes faster than ever - When it comes to making a correction, Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 makes it faster and easier than ever before. Simply speak to correct individual words or phrases quickly through a single, easy to understand window. Select an alternate word choice, or spell and train new words. And when you make corrections, Dragon learns, making it more accurate the more you use it.
- You're in (voice) control, in more applications - Dragon Dictate gives you control in virtually any Mac application, so you can simply speak to get more done. Dragon Dictate delivers an Express Editor so that you can dictate into a text field for which it does not have Full Text Control. After you finish dictating, you can transfer the text from the Express Editor to the desired application quickly and easily by voice.
- Dragon, take a note - Capture your thoughts while they're still fresh in your mind using a digital voice recorder, or your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Dragon Dictate will transcribe the recorded audio files when you connect to your Mac. It's easy to transcribe your own recorded speech into text. Simply establish a user profile for a digital voice recorder, and have Dragon Dictate transcribe your recorded voice quickly and easily.
- Go ahead. Cut those wires - Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 takes advantage of wideband Bluetooth to provide higher wireless accuracy and to let you get started quickly. When it detects that the USB dongle of a certified microphone is plugged into the Mac, Dragon Dictate offers "Enhanced Bluetooth" as an audio source type and does not require a script reading to get started.
- How do you want your words to look? Dragon will adapt - Dragon Dictate 3 lets you set alternative written forms of words or phrases, and even automatically learns your preferences when you make a change to how words, phrases or numbers are formatted. With the ability to set these alternative forms of words (e.g. color vs. colour), you have more say over how words appears.
- A new interactive tutorial in Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 guides you through fun exercises that demonstrate best practices for dictating, editing and formatting so that you can get up and running quickly. Displayed at the end of profile creation and available at any time from the Help menu, the Interactive Tutorial in Dragon Dictate for Mac offers short progressive simulations to help you practice good dictation, correction and editing habits so that you can create text efficiently within just a few minutes. Even experienced Dragon Dictate users can benefit from the Interactive Tutorial.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 2.5.2 (Nov 23, 2011)
- Fixed:
- Fixed an issue with Facebook interactions
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 1.5.9 (Jun 1, 2010)
- Fixed:
- Registration screen has been updated to allow for opt-in to email offers
- Volume licensing
- Supports GROWL notifications for Recognized Text
- Extended ASCII support
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 1.5.8 (Dec 10, 2009)
- Fixed: Addressed an audio input issue with the iMacs introduced in October of 2009.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 1.5.7 (Nov 18, 2009)
- Fixed crashes related to processes that did not correctly report themselves via the Accessibility API, these crashes occurred must commonly during caching activities.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 1.5.6 (Nov 4, 2009)
- New Dictation Preferences pane that allows the Auto Cache Document feature to be enabled or disabled for TextEdit and Microsoft Word.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 1.5.5 (Oct 7, 2009)
- Additions:
- Context menu for available command window: Edit, Execute, and Copy Description to Clipboard
- Message to crash emails about the email not going to Technical Support directly
- Changes:
- Font in Available Commands Window to Helvetica Oblique to remedy minimal font installations
- Address Books with more than 900 (approx.) entries will have the Email Commands generation turned off to avoid resource issues
- Selection Commands now show under Status window in the Recognized Text area
- Fixed:
- Menu mapping for apps bundled with Snow Leopard updated for the new versions
- Commands with different context from Leopard to Snow Leopard
- Issues with documents crashing while Caching or Closing
- Versioning of Commands sets
- Crash when pasting text into documents that have been cached
- Empty dialog when exporting "nothing" from the Vocabulary Editor
- Some Engine words not displaying properly in Training dialog
- Retain cursor location in document after Cache Document is used
- License key not always copied to proper location after License Key Validation
- Crash when highlighting and moving text in a cached area
- Turned off Spoken Alerts except for VoiceOver users
- Crashing when users edited or navigated with mouse in some situations (not perfected just better)
- Better handling of upper level Excel documents. Working within cells still requires use of Purge Cache while navigating
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 1.5.2 (Jun 30, 2009)
- Versioned commands now appear for newer versions of the same app
- Note: This was most notable with the upgrade to Safari 4.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 1.5.1 (May 28, 2009)
- Changes:
- Older licenses are now identified as "Older".
- Changed the text in our License dialogs for older licenses to reduce confusion for customers.
- Fixed:
- UK Locale Format issue.
- Localized UK user would crash when profile was created.
- Creation of a profile when focus was last in TextEdit caused crash.
- Crash after altering some kinds of documents (e.g. Excel).
- Editing words with hyphens causing crash.
- Status window and Available Commands window overlap.
- On first launch the Status window and Available Commands windows would overlap.
New in Dragon (formerly Dragon Dictate) 1.5 (May 15, 2009)
- New Vocabulary Editor.
- New English profile options.
- Enhanced accuracy and much more.