There is no longer a separate ‘note pad’ application to dictate into, rather Nuance have designed Dragon to dictate into any app. The new Dragon menu is available from any application you are in.
You can be dictating into Apple Pages and access the Dragon menu to do ‘vocabulary training’ or ‘microphone setup’ without switching apps. It feels more integrated into other applications than the previous version of Dragon. You can access the Dragon menu commands from whatever app you happen to be in. If you have the status window hidden, the only way you know Dragon for Mac is running is that it appears in a small menu icon at the top right of your screen.
It doesn’t feel like Dragon is now a clunky add on application – it feels like part of OS X itself. The most obvious difference is that the Dragon Dictate Application seems to have completely disappeared as an app and it has more or less integrated itself into the operating system. I have gone back to using the built-in dictation, which is pretty painful, but at least it doesn’t crash! In fact it’s now become so unstable under ‘El Capitan’ that I’ve had to stop using it. We are up to Dragon version 5.0.4, and based on my own experience and the comments of people below, it’s not getting any better. UPDATE: This review was done in September 2015 and my conclusion was to ‘wait for the first bug fix release to get a more stable product.‘ It’s now four months later. Does not work with Microsoft Office 2016. Problems with capitalisation and spacing. Does not require significant time to be trained. The best because of the design and accuracy. It looks different and it feels different, my overall my initial response is… it’s the best and worst version of Dragon so far. They have flagged the importance of this release with the name change from ‘Dragon Dictate’ to simply ‘Dragon for Mac’. It’s a major upgrade from Nuance who are the creators of Dragon Naturally Speaking. Today Dragon Dictate Version 5 (renamed “Dragon for Mac”) was released. Looking for a review of Version 6? Click here!
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