

If I have a client with a unique name, I should be able to teach that name to the software so I can dictate it without having to go back later and fix it. Two critical elements for any voice-to-text dictation system are the ability to keep an open mic and the ability to store custom dictionary values. Siri dictation has made great strides recently, but it still has a long ways to go. There is no clear successor to Dragon Professional Individual for Mac. If Nuance has abandoned the Mac and seems only very slightly interested in the iPad and iPhone, what are we to do? The answer is … complicated. Dragon Anywhere does, however, work on the iPad mini and iPhone just fine. Dragon Anywhere is getting destroyed in the reviews in the App Store because of this failure and has, at least to my knowledge, not made any public comment or commitment to getting its software working on iPad Pro. This is a known issue and has been for months. Dragon Anywhere is what I need for the big jobs, which all occur on the iPad.)įor whatever reason, however, Dragon Anywhere no longer works on the iPad Pro. (I find Siri dictation just fine for short emails and text messages. I looked into this a bit further and discovered that the problem is with the iPad Pro, where I did all of my mobile dictation with Dragon Anywhere. It would drop entire sentences and generally not work. The software went from being the best in class to complete garbage. That all came to a screeching halt when Dragon Anywhere just stopped working on my iPad Pro. It worked great, particularly with split screen. Specifically, I had a workflow where I would look at a PDF and then dictate comments about it at the same time using the Dragon Anywhere software. For years I gladly paid $14.99 a month to have that service because it was so useful on the iPad. Their product Dragon Anywhere is, in my opinion, the best dictation solution on the iPhone and iPad. Nuance says they are still supporting those platforms. Over on the iPad and iPhone, the story gets even weirder.

But at least for now, you still have working software. If I had to bet a nickel, I would bet installation of macOS Catalina as the day that Dragon dies on my Mac. I have no idea how long that will continue. If you already bought Dragon for Mac, you will find that it still works. Nuance has always been the leader in voice-to-speech dictation, and I have been a customer of theirs for years on both the Windows PC and Mac platforms. If this is news to you, Nuance, the makers of Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, speech-to-text software, announced back in October that they would no longer support the Mac. A lot of folks have been asking me what I’m doing about voice-to-text dictation now that Nuance has officially pulled out of the Mac and appears to have relatively abandoned iOS.
