Neither.  But I would use Nuance in preference, Dictation is too slow and I can 
type more accurately
B
> On 20 Apr 2016, at 17:07, Michael Hawkins <michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au> 
> wrote:
> 
> Bill,
> 
> Did you use Mac Dictation or Nuance for your email?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 20 Apr 2016, at 4:23 PM, Bill Parker <ren...@westnet.com.au 
> <mailto:ren...@westnet.com.au>> wrote:
> 
>> I use Nuance Dragon.  If I needed “enjo” I would not say en yo.rather en jo 
>> and correct the result.  However if I wanted to write a chemical word I 
>> would split it up.  However, Mac Diustation is so slow and makes so many 
>> mistakes I cannot use it.
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> 
>>> On 14 Apr 2016, at 18:48, gdorn@me <gd...@me.com <mailto:gd...@me.com>> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Can dictation  "learn" words
>>> 
>>> in appleworks, I use to be able to add words to dictionary  - ie English 
>>> spelling
>>> 
>>> Does dictation have a similar capability.
>>> 
>>> Eg.  try saying  " Enjo" and see what you get  ( we usually get " you know"
>>> 
>>> chow
>>> 
>>> gdorn
>>> gd...@mac.com <mailto:gd...@mac.com>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 14/04/2016, at 10:39 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Kaye,
>>>> 
>>>> Is she trying to access the “show Commands” this way?
>>>> To see a list of all the commands you can access, activate Dictation 
>>>> (press fn fn), wait for the beep, and then say “Show commands”
>>>> 
>>>> When you're dictating, pause before saying a command. Otherwise, OS X may 
>>>> interpret it as dictation.
>>>> 
>>>> Check in System Preferences > Accessibility and choose Dictation in the 
>>>> list to the left. 
>>>> Click 'Dictation Commands' and then select the 'Enable Advanced Commands' 
>>>> option. 
>>>> Click done in the preference pane to activate advanced commands.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ronni
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 14 Apr 2016, at 8:29 AM, kaye and geoff <k...@kgweb.org.au 
>>>> <mailto:k...@kgweb.org.au>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a friend with failing eyesight who is using Enhanced Dictation 
>>>>> under El Capitan. Until recently everything worked well, but now the 
>>>>> spoken request "Show Commands" returns a formatted screen with no 
>>>>> commands listed. She normally dictates in French, but we switched to 
>>>>> English (and to Spanish) and tried them with the same result. Dictation 
>>>>> continues to work - it responds to the spoken commands and produces 
>>>>> documents from spoken dictation in all three languages - but she can no 
>>>>> longer get a list of the commands available to be recognised.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Has anyone else seen this behaviour or have any idea of where we start 
>>>>> looking to get her commands displayed. She is unaware of doing anything 
>>>>> that may have caused the problem, and I can't find anything in her 
>>>>> settings that could turn off displaying the commands.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers, Kaye
>>>>> ------------------------
>>>>> Kaye and Geoff
>>>>> k...@kgweb.org.au <mailto:k...@kgweb.org.au>
>>>>> 
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