Nuance Releases Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.5

Nuance has released Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.5, an update to their speech recognition software for the Mac.

Building on the improved accuracy, faster performance, and powerful new voice commands introduced in Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.0, Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.5 adds new features that make it easier to create documents, send emails, surf the Web, share social status and interact with many Mac applications. For the first time, Dragon Dictate users can combine dictation and voice commands with mouse and keyboard entry within Microsoft Word 2011, making it easier to create and edit documents.

Dragon Dictate 2.5 also takes advantage of the recently-introduced Dragon Remote Mic App, a free application on the Apple iOS app store which makes it possible to use an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad as a wireless microphone for Dragon via a Wi-Fi network connection.


Current Dragon Users will appreciate the new upgrades and features in Dragon Dictate 2.5, including:

Full Control in More Applications – Dragon Dictate 2.5 allows users to seamlessly combine dictation with manual input from the mouse and keyboard while working with Microsoft Word 2011. This ability to "mix talking and typing" within Microsoft Word was the most requested product enhancement from Dragon Dictate customers. In addition, Dragon Dictate 2.5 offers built-in voice commands for Microsoft Word 2011 to format text, insert tables and graphics, and control many menu items by voice. Dragon Dictate 2.5 also works with other popular Mac applications: Apple's Pages, Mail, TextEdit, iChat, Keynote, iCal, Safari, and more.

New Dragon Remote Mic App for iPhone – Turn your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad into a wireless microphone with the new Dragon Remote Mic App. If you want to free yourself from your corded headset, now you can use a device that you may already have.

Enhanced Commands and Social Features – Dragon Dictate includes built-in commands for many applications, including Apple Mail, Safari, TextEdit, iCal & iChat, In addition, Dragon Dictate collapses common multi-step tasks on the Mac into direct voice commands to search for files, post an update to Facebook or Twitter, search the Web for information, and more. Dragon Dictate 2.5 includes more commands to consolidate multiple mouse clicks and keystrokes into a direct voice command, such as:
"Post to Facebook [I love Dragon]"
"Post to Twitter [Tweeting is so much easier by voice]"
"Search Google for hula dancing lessons"
"Search Bing for wedding dress repair"
"Search Yahoo for gondola rentals"
"Search Mail for RSVP"
"Search Mac for history term paper"


Getting Started with Dragon is Faster and Easier – Dragon Dictate 2.0 made it easier than ever to upgrade your software by automatically detecting existing user data and setting up a new and improved Profile with each upgrade. Dragon Dictate 2.5 includes more updates to the Voice Training component of user profile creation, and introduces new additional training text to help get the best recognition accuracy possible.

Improved Formatting Control – With Dragon Dictate 2.5, new formatting options make it easier to control the appearance of certain words and numbers. Users have greater control over the way certain data is formatted. Individual preferences can be set for dates and time, numbers and units of measure, addresses, abbreviations, and more. In addition, with a new Numbers Mode, Dragon Dictate 2.5 can recognize everything it hears as a number or as a command, helping to boost recognition accuracy even further.

Improved User Interface – With the new Auto Sleep Microphone feature in Dragon Dictate 2.5, if the microphone is on but does not receive input after one minute, it will automatically go into Sleep mode. Users can set personal preference for the time allotted for the Auto Sleep microphone functionality.

Improved Editing Control – Dragon Dictate 2.0 included new editing commands to make it easy to select and delete text, insert new text, capitalize text, and more. Proofreading capabilities were added to Dragon Dictate 2.0 to leverage Text-to-Speech read-back for reviewing dictations. Dragon Dictate 2.0 even added a feature to enable users to put punctuation around words or groups of words with simple voice commands.

Availability
Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.5 Mac is available immediately starting at $179.99 through Nuance's Web site as well as its global network of reseller partners, software retailers and professional sales organizations. Dragon Dictate 2.5 is a free upgrade for current Dragon Dictate 2.0 users. For additional information on features, editions, pricing and volume licensing programs, please visit http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/b ... /index.htm.

The new Dragon Remote Mic App is available immediately as a free download in the Apple App Store. Simply follow the instructions included with Dragon to use the new app to turn your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad into a wireless microphone.