I like the better accuracy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking but I tread carefully on Windows.

Unlike OS X, there is no autosave on Windows. Second, I have had Dragon NaturallySpeaking crash on me a couple of times and in those cases the content of the dictation box or the Dragon notepad was lost. That dictation box can be annoying since it takes you out of your favorite text editor.

It does this with Scrivener on Windows because I guess Scrivener is not supported for the text editing commands. First, in most windows applications it will pop open a dictation box instead of directly typing into that application. I don't like a couple of things about Dragon NaturallySpeaking. If you were to always use Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you would have to do a lot of copy-paste from the windows VM to Mac OS X. What I like about Dragon Dictate is that you can pretty much dictate into any text box on Mac OS X (like this post's editor). I've settled on the older Logitech H530 (the newer Logitech H540 doesn't work well though I don't know why.)Īuthor of 'Conceptual Guide to ScreenFlow' I use both though, and I dictate into Scrivener on Mac and Windows.Īs mentioned above, the quality of the mic makes a huge difference in Dragon's recognition speed. I use both to avoid fatigue and increase total output.įor me, clearly, the windows version of Dragon has much better accuracy (4500 vs 3300 wph). The end result was very usable though 6200 wph requires intense focus!īoth typing and completely correct dictation using Dragon Dictate for Mac yield similar speeds for me (3100 vs 3300 wph).

'Only minor corrections' means I only fixed what was completely wrong, and for the most part avoided tough words during dictation. 'With full corrections' means I used the keyboard to fix any dictation mistakes immediately. Typing speed (with no mistakes) - 3100 wphĭragon Dictate v3 (with full corrections) - 3300 wphĭragon NaturallySpeaking v12 (with full corrections) - 4500 wphĭragon NaturallySpeaking v12 (only minor corrections) - 6200 wph I've tried a few experiments using Dragon Dictate v3 and Dragon NaturallySpeaking v12 (on VMWare Fusion 5 & Windows 7)Īll numbers in words per hour (based on 15-20 minutes of each experiment)

For mac instal Dragon Wars