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This topic describes enhancements and new features in Dragon Professional Individual for Mac version 6.

Faster and more accurate than ever

Dragon Professional Individual for Mac v6 expands the possibilities of speech recognition innovation with a next-generation speech engine, significantly increasing accuracy over previous versions. Dragon uniquely brings consistent, optimal accuracy to the Mac, with Deep Learning technology and adaptation techniques that continuously adjust to your voice or environmental variations, even while you're dictating. Dragon v6 provides:

  • Up to 14% improved accuracy out of the box without training
  • Continuous learning—even during dictation—for individually adapted accuracy improvements that enhance the user experience
  • Optimal accuracy achieved for speakers with accents or in slight noisy environments such as in a cubicle environment

Formatting and other recognition improvements, for minimal editing

Dragon delivers improved recognition of number and email address formatting, hyperlink formatting in auto-texts, and place names based on how we naturally speak, resulting in fewer overall corrections. Examples include:

  • three double two five → 3225
  • two point five million → 2.5 million
  • oh point five → 0.5
  • quarter of five → 4:45
  • eight pounds fifty → £8.50
  • John dot Smith at Nuance dot com → john.smith@nuance.com
  • Better overall handling of Roman numerals

Improved set up

Dragon provides simplified microphone selection for faster, easier setup:

  • No transcription setup option needed
  • No smartphone option needed (since built-in mic is already supported along with numerous other microphone options)
  • Audio playback and troubleshooting button to allow the user to hear their audio passage read during setup, so that they be assured their microphone is working or troubleshoot if there is an audio issue

Improved user interface and experience

Dragon delivers an improved user experience that makes powerful features easier to discover and use.

  • Clearer Full Text Control indicator on the new Guidance Window for an enhanced dictation experience
  • Improved Status Window, Correction Window and streamlined Profiles management
  • New License preference pane to manage licenses or subscriptions
  • New automated backups of commands and vocabulary
  • Improved Command management
  • Faster startup time with optimizations throughout

Enhanced transcription

The enhanced transcription process leverages all the accuracy improvements gained from the state-of-the-art engine, while reducing the number of steps required to getting your audio recordings transcribed.

  • Simplified user interface and better speaker management
  • No training is required for transcription; you no longer need to initially transcribe and correct a short 90-second clip to achieve transcription accuracy
    • Acoustic and language model adaptation are automatically leveraged for the current user
  • No training is required for third-party transcription; there is also better separation of current user data versus third-party speaker data

Transcription Batch Mode

Now use Batch Mode and save time if you have multiple audio files to transcribe. In the Transcription Window, simply drop as many files as you need to have transcribed to the Audio Files to Transcribe list, and Dragon Professional Individual for Mac transcribes them all together, quickly and efficiently.

Updated application support

Dragon empowers you to work even more quickly and accurately by voice with support for Full Text Control* within the latest business applications. Desktop applications with enhanced support include for example:

  • Apple Pages
  • Apple Keynote
  • Apple Numbers
  • Microsoft Outlook 2016
  • Scrivener

* Full Text Control requires adoption of Apple’s Accessibility API

Improved help

Contextual guidance tailored to your usage helps you maximize the power of Dragon and complete documentation more efficiently than ever before. Dragon offers multiple ways to accelerate proficiency and get the most out of your speech recognition investment—even offering productivity tips and helping you discover advanced Dragon features. You can take advantage of:

  • Helpful tips always available in the Guidance Window
  • Improved online Help:
    • Enhanced Help that gives users easier access to top searches
    • Changing content on main help page with highly used topics featured
    • New troubleshooting sections
    • Expanded navigational text that gives users more information/context
    • More task-based dialog box help

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