DragonDictate, Dragon Dictate, or Dragon for Mac is proprietary

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software. The older program, DragonDictate, was originally developed by

Dragon Systems Dragon NaturallySpeaking (also known as Dragon for PC, or DNS) is a speech recognition software package developed by Dragon Systems of Newton, Massachusetts, which was acquired in turn by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Nuance Communications ...

for

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. It has now been replaced by

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Dragon NaturallySpeaking (also known as Dragon for PC, or DNS) is a speech recognition software package developed by Dragon Systems of Newton, Massachusetts, which was acquired in turn by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Nuance Communications ...

for Windows, and has since been acquired by

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. Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.0 (originally named

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) is supported only on

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10.6 (

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). Nuance's other products for Mac include

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Original DragonDictate

DragonDictate for Windows was the original

application from

and used discrete speech where the user must pause between speaking each word. The first version, 1.0 was available only through a few distribution and support partners. It included a

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headset. Later it was replaced by

, which allows

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recognition and correction and training of words via the keyboard. NaturallySpeaking remains a Windows-only program, and since 2016 distributes in Version 15. DragonDictate for Windows is still available but has not been updated since Windows 98 was the current operating system.

Dragon Dictate for Mac

Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.0, an upgrade for

, was announced on September 20, 2010 by Nuance Communications, the developer of

MacSpeech MacSpeech, Inc. was a New Hampshire-based technology company that produced software-based speech recognition and voice dictation solutions for the Apple ecosystem. The company's products included iListen, MacSpeech Dictate, MacSpeech Dictate Medic ...

products. The upgrade incorporates some of the features of

NaturallySpeaking Dragon NaturallySpeaking (also known as Dragon for PC, or DNS) is a speech recognition software package developed by Dragon Systems of Newton, Massachusetts, which was acquired in turn by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Nuance Communications ...

into the MacSpeech software. Dragon Dictate for Mac lacks other NaturallySpeaking features, such as training mis-recognized words by simply re-typing them using the keyboard. An early review by

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notes, In October 2018 Nuance announced that it was dropping Macintosh support for its products.

Notable users

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- American writer of comic books, novels, television, movies and video games. David began using DragonDictate following his stroke in December 2012."Peter David, Post-Stroke, Returns Home"
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Original DragonDictate

Dragon Dictate for Mac

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Notable users

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