Comments on: Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion Dictation versus Nuance’s Dragon Dictate

By: Hg Wells

Hg Wells — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:30:02 +0000

Nuance bought MacSpeech some time back which should have given it a different code base to incorporate with its superior speech program. Or were they simply getting rid of a competitor and ignored all that MacSpeech had done after that.

By: TimO

TimO — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:09:33 +0000

Dragon has been around for a LONG time. You would expect it to be a more mature product. Give Apple a few years to work on it and it’ll be a Dragon killer….

By: Agent Provocateur

Agent Provocateur — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:47:13 +0000

Since when has anybody been unaware that Apple’s 30% margins are not commonly carried over to 3rd party stuff?

Besides, Nuance has been developing for Windows longer and can spread the cost over a significantly larger installed base.

Used Dragon 2, upgraded to 3 and it is much better. Part of the difference between Nuance SW capabilities on Mac and Windows has to do with 3rd party access to OS functions. More an Apple issue than a Nuance issue.

By: tbone

tbone — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:57:59 +0000

I find that the new Dragon Dictate for Mac is a quantum leap. But, spinal tap is right. The PC version costs 50% of what the Mac version does.

By: Grigori

Grigori — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:56:24 +0000

I wouldn’t be the first person to suggest that Apple should purchase Nuance.

By: spinaltap

spinaltap — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:50:24 +0000

I recently purchased the Windows version of Dragon Dictate for a third of the price of the Mac version.

I loaded BootCamp/Windows 7 on my Mac Mini, and found the accuracy of the Windows version to be extremely reliable.