Review by SanjeevP

If you are used to Dragon naturally Speaking Windows version, then you will not like this product. As I understand the speech engine is same as Dragon Naturallyspeaking, but somehow, the performance does not transfer to the Mac version - and this is version 5!nnMost software for Mac has better user interface compared to Windows software; but in Dragon’s case, it is the other way round. Mac version is not user-friendly and difficult to use, installation is very tortuous, takes a long time, and instead of starting with your previous version 4.0 profile, prompts you to start all over again with a new profile. And then program repeatedly hangs up and freezes. Does not work well with Google Docs, Evernote and Microsoft Office on the web.

But I must say, compared to Dragon Dictate version 4.0, it is a little faster and the accuracy is better. The user experience is not any better though. Dragon microphone window is very obtrusive.

I have used Windows Dragon Naturallyspeaking for 15 years and to me Dragon for Mac 5 is difficult to use, buggy, slow to start and the correction accuracy does not come close to Windows version. If you use speech recognition for work or use extensively then I would recommend Windows Dragon Naturallyspeaking. For Mac, probably MacOS built in speech recognition is easier and faster to use than Dragon for Mac. Dragon Dictate 5.0 is definitely better than Dragon Dictate 4.0, faster and accurate but still very painful to use.