How to use transcription with Dragon Dictate 3 for Mac
We've covered Dragon Dictate—a program that allows you to dictate into your favorite application, to save time and effort typing—over several iterations now. But the recently released Dragon Dictate 3 () adds a transcription feature that can be useful in certain situations. Here's how that feature works and how you can take advantage of it.
About transcription
The free Dragon Recorder iOS app is easy to use.
Transcription differs from standard speech recognition. Instead of sitting in front of your computer and dictating with an application open, you dictate into a portable digital recorder or an iPhone. Nuance's free Dragon Recorder iOS app lets you make voice recordings on an iPhone, and many companies sell portable digital recorders.
Dragon Dictate is a speaker-dependent program, meaning that you start by creating a voice profile and Dragon Dictate interprets the sounds it hears based on this profile. For this reason, you can't use Dragon Dictate's transcription feature for meetings or interviews. (Nuance says that it plans to update its MacSpeech Scribe transcription program, which doesn't run on OS X 10.7 or 10.8, but which can transcribe audio without requiring an existing profile. The company did not say when it expects to release the updated program.)
How to dictate for transcription
You don't have to pay attention to how your words will look on your computer screen when recording your voice for transcription, but you still need to think about it and use the special words that tell Dragon Dictate when to insert punctuation, when to skip lines, when to capitalize words, and more. You need to speak like this:
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