Review by Margaux Paschke

After using Siri all day on my phone, I wanted the convenience of voice activation on my pc. I tried Dragon over 10 years ago when it first came out and was less than impressed. I’m loving this latest version! It was easy to set up - it takes minutes to walk through the steps and you’re ready to go! You need to speak clearly when using and it has trouble recognizing unique words. Dragon even automatically capitalizes obvious Proper Nouns like names. I dictated a paragraph to Windows built-in speech recognition and compared it to the same paragraph read via Dragon and Dragon outperformed and had much less errors. No Contest! I have the software for MAC but the Windows version is compatible not only with IE and Chrome, the obvious, but Firefox as well! I’m a huge fan of Firefox but not all software plays nicely with this outsider. I am seriously considering purchasing the Windows version but the price is steep for the convenience.

I have the feeling that I am missing some functions as I’m not a techie but this software does an amazing job for my purposes (writing letters and speeches, Facebook posts, etc.)