Sad Mac user – Dragon Anywhere Review

Periodically, my hands and arms hurt so much that I can’t type. When this happens, Dragon always came to the rescue, allowing me to continue working, while I rested my hands. Then Dragon stopped supporting Mac. All of the other voice recognition software programs out there stink compared to Dragon, so I tried Dragon Anywhere, in hopes of creating a workaround. I figured that I could dictate into my iPad, and then copy to a Word doc and send it to my Mac. (Not ideal, but better than Apple’s native voice recognition software, which, as I noted, stinks.) Unfortunately, this app is no help at all, because it keeps crashing. I would pay a lot of money to have Dragon working on Mac again. With an aging population that will become more and more disabled, it seems like a bad business move for Nuance/Dragon to be abandoning Mac platforms. The best thing about Dragon is that it learns as it goes. Why don’t any other voice recognition software platforms do that? If Nuance doesn’t want to support Dragon for Mac, can they please sell their IP to some other company that wants to make money in this niche market? An aging population of Mac users will need this kind of software to stay engaged. I wish that Nuance would change its mind and start supporting Mac again - or strike a deal with some young entrepreneur to sell the IP that makes Dragon so awesome. By the way, I dictated this using Siri on my iPhone. And it stunk. So many mistakes. Dragon did a better job in the mid 90s, when I first started using it. So, while I offer apologies for the typos, I blame Siri... and Nuance. :(
Review by Susan M. Miller on Dragon Anywhere.