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? Thanks. >>> >>> Les >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
