Typing with your voice – dictating text – has become an extremely common way to communicate. Better yet, you don't even need a stenographer. (Now I'm dating myself) I recently watched a friend quietly ...

Nuance on Tuesday announced Dragon Dictate for Mac 4, its latest voice recognition software, which comes bundled with features from the company’s MacSpeech Scribe OS X app that will let users ...

Microsoft Garage has been churning out some of the most innovative apps and technologies. The latest one is called the “Dictate”, and true to its name all it does is take dictation and convert the ...

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Editor's note: We're big fans of speech recognition apps here at Ars, and when MacSpeech announced its plan to license the Nuance recognition engine that powers Dragon NaturallySpeaking, we knew we'd ...

MacSpeech lit up MacWorld 2008 when it showed Dictate, its new voice recognition app that was built upon the powerful Dragon NaturallySpeaking recognition engine. Mac users, used to having access only ...

Dragon Dictate 4 excels at this. I haven’t run previous versions of Dragon Dictate for Mac, but Nuance claims that version 4 is “up to 99% accurate” which they say is an improvement (though they don’t ...

It’s been nearly a year and a half since the last update to Nuance’s speech recognition software, Dragon Dictate, was released. Over the past few years, Nuance has been refining the software, taking ...

One of the features in OS X Mavericks that I was most looking forward to was offline dictation. Back in OS X Mountain Lion, Apple added the systemwide Dictation tool, similar to Siri in iOS. You ...

Microsoft has released a new app called Dictate. It's an add-in for Word, Outlook and Powerpoint and uses Cortana's speech-recognition technology to let you speak what you want to type. Office has ...

I live in Italy, but because of my work I communicate with friends and colleagues in English. All my devices are set to English, including Siri on our HomePods. As a multilingual iOS user, the ...

The first thing we suggest doing here is to check if your microphone is connected to the computer correctly. Unplug the device then plug it back in again. Finally, perform a dictation routine to see ...