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Has anyone upgraded to Mojave and tried Dragon yet? I'm still having trouble finding out if it's workable or not.
I am currently using Dragon Dictate Medical on my late 2016 MBP running Sierra. I did look into the Windows version with the possibility of running it on Bootcamp, but it is now a $1600 program, and I would have to get a hold of a copy of Windows 10 also. My current solution is to partition my MBP with double boot capability. I am now testing DDM on my smaller partition running Sierra (where it runs fine), and will soon upgrade the larger partition to Mojave (which is not supported by Nuance). I can then safely try DDM in Mojave, and if it doesn't work it I will use the partition where it will remain 2016...
 
I am currently using Dragon Dictate Medical on my late 2016 MBP running Sierra. I did look into the Windows version with the possibility of running it on Bootcamp, but it is now a $1600 program, and I would have to get a hold of a copy of Windows 10 also. My current solution is to partition my MBP with double boot capability. I am now testing DDM on my smaller partition running Sierra (where it runs fine), and will soon upgrade the larger partition to Mojave (which is not supported by Nuance). I can then safely try DDM in Mojave, and if it doesn't work it I will use the partition where it will remain 2016...
I don't use Dragon Dictate Medical anymore, because it's stuck on the version 5 engine. Dragon Dictate Professional uses the newer version 6 engine, and while you will need to add medical terminology to its dictionary, that can be done pretty quickly (and there's even a feature to feed documents to the program, which will then recognize words and ask if you want to add them to the dictionary... so you could save a few of your notes and then provide those to speed it up). I don't know that I'd want to buy the program now (or if it's even possible to) but if you can get your hands on a copy, I think it would be worth your time to switch over. Dragon Dictate Professional does work on Mojave.

As for partitions, I also have a thought for you there: buy either Parallels or VMWare Fusion, and create a virtual machine for an earlier version of MacOS. Install and use Dragon there once Dragon no longer runs properly on the latest operating system. While it will never be as convenient as simply being able to open Dragon directly, being able to open a program within another program is faster than having to reboot to another partition.
 
I don't use Dragon Dictate Medical anymore, because it's stuck on the version 5 engine. Dragon Dictate Professional uses the newer version 6 engine, and while you will need to add medical terminology to its dictionary, that can be done pretty quickly (and there's even a feature to feed documents to the program, which will then recognize words and ask if you want to add them to the dictionary... so you could save a few of your notes and then provide those to speed it up). I don't know that I'd want to buy the program now (or if it's even possible to) but if you can get your hands on a copy, I think it would be worth your time to switch over. Dragon Dictate Professional does work on Mojave.

As for partitions, I also have a thought for you there: buy either Parallels or VMWare Fusion, and create a virtual machine for an earlier version of MacOS. Install and use Dragon there once Dragon no longer runs properly on the latest operating system. While it will never be as convenient as simply being able to open Dragon directly, being able to open a program within another program is faster than having to reboot to another partition.
Previously, I started with MacSpeech and had all sorts of problems with medical terminology; MacSpeech Medical solved most of that, so I hadn't though of trying Dragon Dictate Professional. It is still available at Amazon, heavily discounted, but i don't know if I want to invest the money and try to train it. FWIW, Dragon Dictate Medical 5.0.4 works fine for me on Sierra.

With regard to using VMs, I actually hadn't thought of using them for a dual Mac OS X setup- I always thought of running Windows with them. BUT, I only have to reboot once a day, I use the Sierra partition at work, and the Mojave partition at home, no need to go back and forth. Added bonus is that I have a Time Machine at both locations, so I can separate out the backups. But in the meantime, EFF Nuance...
 
Has anyone upgraded to Mojave and tried Dragon yet? I'm still having trouble finding out if it's workable or not.
I have been up and running in dual-boot mode for the past two weeks; DD Medical is working well as can be expected on the smaller "Sierra" partition. Once I confirmed that, I upgraded the larger partition to Mojave. DD Medical seems to work in Mojave, but it doesn't respond to "scratch that" commands. If you don't mind that, it seems to be serviceable during my initial trials. The "scratch that" command was always a little wonky, even in Sierra. I will continue to use the dual-boot system, as I can keep that portion of my MBP stuck in 2016 while I modernize the rest of it. I just need to hang in there another year or two before I take down my shingle...!
 
This is ridiculous. They took a great program from the Mac world, MacSpeech, and destroyed it. Support was always terrible and software prices were expensive. They are a monopoly and now we are left without a viable dictation software program for the Mac platform. Time for Apple or someone else to step in. Sad
Dpn't count on that happening. It never has when Dreamweaver was the only serious page creation app. left standing. Just because a vacuum exists doesn't necessarily mean somebody's going to be eager to step in and fill it.
 
Would be nice if a medical or legal dictionary was offered for macOS so that Siri recognizes more medical words. Would also be beneficial to add a medical dictionary to iOS. I don't know how many times I've texted a doc and autocorrect thinks I've "intimated" instead of "intubated" a patient.
If you go into Settings>General>Keyboard>Text Replacement> and press the blue plus in the upper right corner, and add “intubate” and it won't autocorrect anymore. The utility appears to be intended to let you make shortcuts, (like you type “pt” and it autocorrects to “patient”,) but the shortcut is optional. This is also how you can get iOS to quit autocorrecting all your profanity.
It would be great if you could just “add” lingos to the dictionary so it already knows words like intubate and extubate, and infarction, etc... even better if the “smart” (hahahah) phone could know when your text recipient is one person or another and adjust autocorrect based on that, so when you're texting your eight-year-old daughter it doesn't autocorrect to profanity, but when you're texting your friend or spouse, it does... and if you’re texting your boss it suggests and corrects corrrectly the lingo for your worklace, (i.e., medical jargon). Note that this wouldn’t PROHIBIT language, just change suggestions and autocorrections based on recipient(s). Similarly to how some software deteccts what language you are working in and changes the spelling diccionario accordingly.
 
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That would correct one word, but it happens so much with various medical words that it would take hours to list everything.
 
Now about a year later, I haven't bothered to try using Dragon on the Mac. But I'm not opposed to still using the current Windows version, and either copying and pasting or finding other solutions. Thing is, I really dislike the idea of paying full price, when I've already bought licenses for two versions of Dragon on the Mac. If Nuance were a nice company (and I get the sense that they're not) they'd let us trade in our Mac Dragon licenses for the Windows equivalents. Barring that, I'd hope that they would at least let us pay upgrade pricing for the full version. Heck, we've been abandoned - making us re-purchase the whole thing on Windows is insult atop injury.

Trouble is, I tried to use their "contact us" page but I've never received a reply through there. The wording on the page makes it seem clear that they intend for that to be more for volume licensing inquiries. I just figured I'd put it out there: has anyone gotten in touch with Nuance about this? Anyone with a free switch to the Windows version, or at least a discount?
 
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Now about a year later, I haven't bothered to try using Dragon on the Mac. But I'm not opposed to still using the current Windows version, and either copying and pasting or finding other solutions. Thing is, I really dislike the idea of paying full price, when I've already bought licenses for two versions of Dragon on the Mac. If Nuance were a nice company (and I get the sense that they're not) they'd let us trade in our Mac Dragon licenses for the Windows equivalents. Barring that, I'd hope that they would at least let us pay upgrade pricing for the full version. Heck, we've been abandoned - making us re-purchase the whole thing on Windows is insult atop injury.

Trouble is, I tried to use their "contact us" page but I've never received a reply through there. The wording on the page makes it seem clear that they intend for that to be more for volume licensing inquiries. I just figured I'd put it out there: has anyone gotten in touch with Nuance about this? Anyone with a free switch to the Windows version, or at least a discount?

Nuance are the worst company on the planet. They have been hogging dictation IP patents, getting rich in the process on bloated prices, depriving disabled people of a sorely needed functionality, while preventing progress in the field. If there was ever a case for trust-busting, Nuance is it. They don't care about customers because their monopolistic position means they don't have to. Bastards.
 
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I still dictate every day using software at work (a Dragon competitor that is really awful by comparison, although to be fair we're a few versions behind so hopefully it's just that), and had some time today, so I called Nuance to see about a discount if I were to buy the Windows version for home use. Based on time zones I was calling them after-hours. Their initial message was about selling off their PDF software, and providing the phone number to the new owners of that software. That wasn't overly reassuring. Then there was a phone tree about Dragon. Choosing the option about purchasing Dragon connected me with a very nice representative, whose microphone was a bit muffled and whose accent I couldn't exactly place, but I'd guess the stereotype of India. Pulling up my information, they could see that I had purchased Dragon Medical for Mac; I tried to helpfully point out that I also had the standard home version, too. To my amazement, there was a discount offered for buying the Individual Professional edition: a $50 discount, taking the price from $300 to $250 (not including tax).

I'd say I was shocked both ways: shocked that I was actually getting a discount, and shocked that the discount wasn't something like the upgrade pricing (or even cheaper). I mean, how loyal does a customer have to be to stick with you even across operating systems?

Well, the story doesn't get much better from here. I glumly said I'd take it, because I want to use the software and I'm at a point in my life where I can thankfully afford it instead of resorting to the "digital high seas." I was then told I'd have to wait a bit for a manager to authorize and complete the purchase. I was put on hold for a few minutes, and then a few minutes more. I asked if I could just have a coupon code or some such thing to complete the purchase on my own (since this was going to be the download, anyway), and was told that it wasn't possible. Finally, when it seemed like they'd need to call me back the following day, a manager appeared. They took my payment details and told me I'd need to wait 1-2 hours for my license code. I received the order confirmation and charge within minutes and - good to their word - the email containing my license code and a sort-of download link came about 1.5 hours later. Yet in that time I tried to find if there was a different way to download the product, and mostly discovered just how broken their website is, reaching some parts that looked like they were from the 1990's.

I recognize that the purchase wasn't necessarily the smartest in timing, given the unclear future of virtualizing x86 Windows with Apple moving to ARM... but if that doesn't kill my ability to upgrade Dragon in the future, I'd say Nuance probably will. It truly boggles my mind how the #1 dictation company - fed money by subscriptions from high-end corporations - can appear to be failing so badly. At this point I wonder if they're even developing Dragon anymore, or if they're just sailing on what's currently there. Healthy companies generally don't sell off other product lines and retreat from product selling spaces, and basic website maintenance seems obvious. That their website is falling apart even for Windows home users, and that the experience is such garbage (I haven't seen a website that makes you literally type a product key in years, but their website was not compatible with copying and pasting it) makes it clear that they are focused on the corporate sector at this point. I'm worried for them, though. Their actions seem more like they have new management that is trying to justify its existence by improving the financial numbers of the company - actions that probably appease shareholders, but that ultimately gut the company and turn it into something of a lifeless zombie. It's sad to see.

So long story short, if you're looking to go to Windows, Nuance will give you $50 to "upgrade" to the Windows version. Just expect to potentially spend a lot of time on the phone for it, depending on the time you call. And look forward to a "blast from the past" 1990's experience when it comes to ordering and then actually getting your product.
 
I still dictate every day using software at work (a Dragon competitor that is really awful by comparison, although to be fair we're a few versions behind so hopefully it's just that), and had some time today, so I called Nuance to see about a discount if I were to buy the Windows version for home use. Based on time zones I was calling them after-hours. Their initial message was about selling off their PDF software, and providing the phone number to the new owners of that software. That wasn't overly reassuring. Then there was a phone tree about Dragon. Choosing the option about purchasing Dragon connected me with a very nice representative, whose microphone was a bit muffled and whose accent I couldn't exactly place, but I'd guess the stereotype of India. Pulling up my information, they could see that I had purchased Dragon Medical for Mac; I tried to helpfully point out that I also had the standard home version, too. To my amazement, there was a discount offered for buying the Individual Professional edition: a $50 discount, taking the price from $300 to $250 (not including tax).

I'd say I was shocked both ways: shocked that I was actually getting a discount, and shocked that the discount wasn't something like the upgrade pricing (or even cheaper). I mean, how loyal does a customer have to be to stick with you even across operating systems?

Well, the story doesn't get much better from here. I glumly said I'd take it, because I want to use the software and I'm at a point in my life where I can thankfully afford it instead of resorting to the "digital high seas." I was then told I'd have to wait a bit for a manager to authorize and complete the purchase. I was put on hold for a few minutes, and then a few minutes more. I asked if I could just have a coupon code or some such thing to complete the purchase on my own (since this was going to be the download, anyway), and was told that it wasn't possible. Finally, when it seemed like they'd need to call me back the following day, a manager appeared. They took my payment details and told me I'd need to wait 1-2 hours for my license code. I received the order confirmation and charge within minutes and - good to their word - the email containing my license code and a sort-of download link came about 1.5 hours later. Yet in that time I tried to find if there was a different way to download the product, and mostly discovered just how broken their website is, reaching some parts that looked like they were from the 1990's.

I recognize that the purchase wasn't necessarily the smartest in timing, given the unclear future of virtualizing x86 Windows with Apple moving to ARM... but if that doesn't kill my ability to upgrade Dragon in the future, I'd say Nuance probably will. It truly boggles my mind how the #1 dictation company - fed money by subscriptions from high-end corporations - can appear to be failing so badly. At this point I wonder if they're even developing Dragon anymore, or if they're just sailing on what's currently there. Healthy companies generally don't sell off other product lines and retreat from product selling spaces, and basic website maintenance seems obvious. That their website is falling apart even for Windows home users, and that the experience is such garbage (I haven't seen a website that makes you literally type a product key in years, but their website was not compatible with copying and pasting it) makes it clear that they are focused on the corporate sector at this point. I'm worried for them, though. Their actions seem more like they have new management that is trying to justify its existence by improving the financial numbers of the company - actions that probably appease shareholders, but that ultimately gut the company and turn it into something of a lifeless zombie. It's sad to see.

So long story short, if you're looking to go to Windows, Nuance will give you $50 to "upgrade" to the Windows version. Just expect to potentially spend a lot of time on the phone for it, depending on the time you call. And look forward to a "blast from the past" 1990's experience when it comes to ordering and then actually getting your product.

Classic behaviour of a company that holds a monopoly (Nuance gobbled up the relevant patents many years ago). The same is true I think of spellchecking, which is still based on single word-by-word checking alone rather than adding information about word pairing probabilities, so that 'tot he' (rather than 'to the') does not flag an error. I've been using spellcheckers since word processing software came on a floppy disk, and it has remained unchanged. if there has ever been a case suitable for eminent domain, the monopoly on patents for voice dictation (and indeed if there is a similar situation for spellcheckers) is it...

What truly gets my goat is why Apple and other major corporations don't see how crap voice dictation and spellchecking are, and start anew, or perhaps just buy out Nuance, but instead put in development effort into making my head look like a dragon in online calls - how useful... :/
 
Since my last post I don't think I've seen a single update to Dragon, and Microsoft has reportedly bought the product. I foresee good things happening in the future once Microsoft gets it under control, and who knows? Maybe Microsoft will bring it back to MacOS.

But with the release of MacOS Monterey, I'm curious - is the built-in dictation good enough to replace Dragon? I haven't updated yet, and I am still on an Intel Mac, which limits the built-in dictation to one minute stretches at a time. I'll sample it, but just curious if any of you other Dragon and former Dragon users have any thoughts. I wouldn't mind not having to virtualize Windows and then copy and paste text (which wouldn't really be an easy option with a M1 system, anyway). I've had good experiences with Apple's dictation on iOS, my only concern is the inability to handle the dictionary and adaptive learning as directly as Dragon allows. Not sure if that has changed with Monterey.
 
Since my last post I don't think I've seen a single update to Dragon, and Microsoft has reportedly bought the product. I foresee good things happening in the future once Microsoft gets it under control, and who knows? Maybe Microsoft will bring it back to MacOS.

But with the release of MacOS Monterey, I'm curious - is the built-in dictation good enough to replace Dragon? I haven't updated yet, and I am still on an Intel Mac, which limits the built-in dictation to one minute stretches at a time. I'll sample it, but just curious if any of you other Dragon and former Dragon users have any thoughts. I wouldn't mind not having to virtualize Windows and then copy and paste text (which wouldn't really be an easy option with a M1 system, anyway). I've had good experiences with Apple's dictation on iOS, my only concern is the inability to handle the dictionary and adaptive learning as directly as Dragon allows. Not sure if that has changed with Monterey.
Curious, too. Still have to try out dictation.
 
A few months later - I didn't test it on Mac, but I recently upgraded my iPad Pro to the M1-based system. It seems Apple removed the dictation time limit under iOS, at least for the iPad Pro (maybe all M1-based systems). I was using the built-in microphones rather than my usual SpeechMike, but the environment was quiet enough that accuracy shouldn't have been too far off.

The general conclusion is that it's workable, but when I upgrade my Mac I'll still be looking to run Parallels to virtualize Dragon. The errors that iOS made - which I assume are what macOS will make - were more common dictation errors, and there just wasn't a way to correct them via dictation. Often the system would get words wrong, but upon finishing the sentence or stopping dictation the system would correct everything. Other times it would recognize that the word choice may have been suboptimal and would underline it blue, and right-clicking it would bring up the correct choice. But there were also a number of times when I'd need to manually edit it.

As a frame of reference, when I dictate with Dragon I might need to correct a word every other paragraph, at most - and usually it's because I botched the words coming out of my mouth, or used an unusual name or location. Using iOS I found that every paragraph, sometimes every third sentence or so, I was going in to fix something. If I remember right, Apple said that the system does learn over time, but without being able to fine-tune it in the way that Dragon (and most other dedicated dictation software) allows, I'm not sure how that would work.

Hopefully Microsoft brings Dragon back to Mac.
 
Is anyone concerned that the macOS/iOS dictation data is transmitted to Apple servers? What if the dictation content includes confidential commercial or legal information? I don't understand why Apple cannot provide macOS and iOS with a self-contained dictation app.
 
Is anyone concerned that the macOS/iOS dictation data is transmitted to Apple servers? What if the dictation content includes confidential commercial or legal information? I don't understand why Apple cannot provide macOS and iOS with a self-contained dictation app.
If I understand it correctly, M1 Macs process their dictation onboard without sending info to the Apple mothership.

I share your frustration. We have this wonderful hardware with Apple's new SoC but the built in MacOS dictation is very user unfriendly for even light medical office use and no third party or stand alone dictation apps on MacOS anymore.
 
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If I understand it correctly, M1 Macs process their dictation onboard without sending info to the Apple mothership.

I share your frustration. We have this wonderful hardware with Apple's new SoC but the built in MacOS dictation is very user unfriendly for even light medical office use and no third party or stand alone dictation apps on MacOS anymore.
I am losing my vision, so UK Access to Work has provided me with TalkType (https://talk-type.com/). It seems to be working well so far, I think a little better than Apple's or MS Word's home grown solutions, but I have only used it a few weeks and it is a little hard to compare.

FWIW I have tried to convince Arn and the MR powers that be to start a forum in MacRumors for accessibility hardware and software, which would include speech-to-text software. Alas, nothing has happened in spite of the ageing population who are going to need accessibility. See link to short MR thread on the topic. if Arn/MR doesn't do anything, I might very start my own site on the topic, perhaps hosted by the university at which I work.
 
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I am losing my vision, so UK Access to Work has provided me with TalkType (https://talk-type.com/). It seems to be working well so far, I think a little better than Apple's or MS Word's home grown solutions, but I have only used it a few weeks and it is a little hard to compare.
Thanks for the URL but at 50 pounds/month or $720/year, it needs to be a lot better than MacOS dictation (admittedly a very low bar).

I'm not surprised there are few threads on dictation on MacOS since it is nearly extinct but you'd think there'd be an accessibility forum here.
 
Thanks for the URL but at 50 pounds/month or $720/year, it needs to be a lot better than MacOS dictation (admittedly a very low bar).

I'm not surprised there are few threads on dictation on MacOS since it is nearly extinct but you'd think there'd be an accessibility forum here.
Google and Amazon offer cloud dictation, as does Microsoft in Word.
 
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I recently upgraded from my Intel-based iMac (Late 2015) to a Mac Studio (M1 Max chipset). I did a sample dictation with it, using my Philips SpeechMike as an input source (which is what I usually use with Dragon). The buttons on the SpeechMike couldn't be used to activate dictation, but the keyboard shortcuts aren't that bad.

I have mixed feelings about it. The brief summary is that I can imagine using built-in dictation for brief or quick things, but I am still going to work on being able to virtualize Windows and hopefully run Dragon from it, as I was before.

Overall accuracy is good, but similar to my report from my M1-based iPad Pro, every sentence or two I'd need to correct things. That compares with one error from Dragon about every paragraph or two (or four; sometimes it was really on a roll). Unlike Dragon, you can't really fine-tune it by clearly adding things to the dictionary or having it learn the way you say a word. Limited voice commands work ("new paragraph" sort of seems to work, but "scratch that" doesn't).

The worst thing, though, is probably a bug. With ARM-based systems, you can leave dictation running indefinitely, similar to Dragon; there's no "time out." And in general it seems to work well, text populates fairly quickly and it goes back to correct itself if it needs to... but I twice had it where nearly a whole paragraph disappeared because it seemingly tried to go back to correct something, and botched even that. So I got into the habit of stopping dictation every sentence or two and then starting it back up - again, not an issue I had with Dragon.

I don't know how much of a priority this is for Apple; I am hopeful that it will improve in the future. Yet even beyond Apple, the technology is not so well-developed that it can excel without manual tuning. It's sort of satisfactory, and it's great for people who don't have access to Dragon. But if you've used Dragon and are expecting a similar level of performance, you'll be disappointed. Don't trash your Dragon licenses just yet...
 
Another update for you dictation fans... I wondered how much the microphone was really contributing, and liked the idea of just leaning back and hitting the keyboard shortcut, instead of juggling the microphone with one hand and the keyboard with the other. I have some AirPods (third generation - the latest) and thought that maybe the microphone quality would be good enough, or maybe with the new neural engine the voice recognition would be strong enough to cut through any background noise (my room is pretty quiet - 34-37 dB according to my Apple Watch, mostly the gentle hum of a computer some distance away, and occasional birds singing outside). Pairing was seamless and easy, but the performance was practically unusable. The first sentence that I dictated was nonsensical; even after that, it seemed like every sentence or two had an error, sometimes two errors in the same sentence. It again drives home the point that there's nothing magical about dictation with the M1 systems - at least, not yet. It's similar to the old built-in dictation on MacOS, and it still follows the usual rules of dictation where microphone quality is very important.

I wondered if I could modify the key bindings on the microphone to activate dictation, and downloaded Philips' SpeechControl software. This is the same old software, hasn't been updated since 2019, and MacOS initially wouldn't let me open it (right click and open it from the menu to force your way through the security prompt). The default dictation activations are double-pressing one of the command keys or control, which is a problem. SpeechControl will let you redo key bindings, but you can only use those keys as a modifier, not a key to activate on their own. And there's no obvious way to press it twice in sequence. You can redo the bindings on the MacOS side, but I don't want to worry about accidentally activating dictation from the keyboard. I could live with key bindings in Dragon or Fluency Direct because those programs weren't always running, but built-in dictation isn't something I want to be opening the System Preferences to turn on and off.

For now, I'll keep using the SpeechMike in one hand, turning dictation on and off with the keyboard. I do also have a gooseneck microphone from Buddy (DesktopMic 7G), which surprisingly has accuracy that rivaled the SpeechMike for me; if you don't want to hold a microphone you can't even use as a controller, but still want that dictation accuracy, I might be able to recommend that (have not yet tested with MacOS dictation, but should work the same).

I'm delayed in seeing how Dragon runs here because my account with Nuance shows my Dragon for Mac license and gives me the ability to re-download it (or at least, there's a link - not sure if it still works), but it does not show my Dragon for Windows license. I've sent a message to Nuance for assistance in obtaining the installer so that I can see how it runs under Windows 11 ARM edition. Will report how that goes once it's working...

And another update coming: I had ordered and am still waiting on the Mac Studio Display. Given what a big deal they've made about the microphones on that monitor, I'll put it through its paces with dictation and report back if the monitor's microphones alone are sufficient, or if you really still need a dedicated microphone for dictation.
 
Another update for you dictation fans... I wondered how much the microphone was really contributing, and liked the idea of just leaning back and hitting the keyboard shortcut, instead of juggling the microphone with one hand and the keyboard with the other...

...And another update coming: I had ordered and am still waiting on the Mac Studio Display. Given what a big deal they've made about the microphones on that monitor, I'll put it through its paces with dictation and report back if the monitor's microphones alone are sufficient, or if you really still need a dedicated microphone for dictation.
I've got a well reviewed SpeechWare microphone leftover from using Dragon but, even using my MBA microphone, MacOS recognition of common words in the MacOS dictionary isn't that bad. That's not the problem.

Far bigger problems that interfere with trying to do work with MacOS dictation are the inability to add word lists so it can recognize professional terms (I'm in medicine), local names and placenames, and to easily add punctuation and paragraph breaks etc.
If there is a MacOS help entry or Apple support article on how to do those things, I've yet to find it.
 
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@Ledgem - just a helpful note from research I did about 15 years ago when I was seeking optimal microphone performance on the Windows version of Dragon Nat Speak (and the principle still applies). Bluetooth connections 'packet' data and the speech engine in Dictate and Nat Speak can't unpack it cleanly. If you use a professional headset (wireless or wired) the speech is 'heard' by the nuance software in a more fluid or analogue form ..and it really needs the granular nuance in voice signal to deliver high accuracy.

My Logitech H800 has 2 modes of wireless for exactly this reason: Wireless RF to the USB receiver dongle for a smooth full range voice audio spectrum AND wireless bluetooth to connect to my iPhone and other BT devices not designed to work with a USB receiver dongle.

NATSPEAK basically hears Bluetooth voice input signal in a choppy staccato way - a bit like talking to it in "monotone robot" voice.

BIG QUESTION.. Does anyone have the UPDATE PATCH for Dragon Dictate 5..?
On the same topic - I have the UPDATE PATCH for NUANCE DRAGON DICTATE for MAC 6 (Dragon_14812 Update)

It's very irritating not being able to source these from NUANCE any more :(
 
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