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It’s been over 2 years since Dragon 6 was released but it still has bugs. As with previous Dragon releases, the recognition is excellent, it’s the stability that is problematic. My suggestion is to stay with Dragon version 5 if you own it. It strikes the best balance between accuracy and stability. However, if you are running the latest version of Dragon for Mac 6, here are some tips on how to get it working with the least amount of spinning beach balls.

Try a different version – version 6.0.7 may be better with Mac OS Sierra (10.12) and the correction window doesn’t always work. I am now running 6.0.8 with High Sierra and unfortunately, I cannot tell whether it is High Sierra or Dragon 6.0.8 that is causing more crashes. Either way, 6.0.7 with Sierra was better.

Prior to 6.0.7 I found the most stable version to be 6.0.5. Use a new profile. The recognition is so good in the new version that you won’t really need your old profile anyway.

It seems to have more problems when you import your old voice data. Completely delete the old version of Dragon. Some of the preferences can get corrupted. See this post on how to do this: 4. For stability purposes, do not dictate into ‘supported Apps’ like Apple Pages and Microsoft Word.

Dragon seems to be at it’s worst with Apps that are supported with ‘Dragon Integration’. This includes Pages, Word and Text Edit. Stay away from them. For some reason Scrivener seems to be OK, Unsupported apps may work better. Try not to do too much clicking with the mouse. In previous versions I was OK to mix a combination of speaking and typing, but version 6 doesn’t cope as well with that. Try not to do too many corrections when you are dictating. When dictating into Apple Pages Dragon crashes almost every time I try to do something other than straight dictation.

It’s a shame because this is what makes Dragon so good, it’s ability to improve. But the correction in version 6 seems to be buggy still. Other Dragon Articles. Kudos to you for trying to help out for people that as you say, made the mistake of purchasing Dragon for Mac 6.

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The reality is that when I that you can sum up your post by saying that “the new version doesn’t work with anything that you might want it to, and on the rare occasions when it does work, that only happens under limited circumstances.” I can’t believe that I gave reached this point, however quality dictation is so important to my work that I am switching back to PC after many happy years with a Mac. I had hoped that the new version would make it possible to avoid that. Most annoying of all is that this is a victory for Nuance as i will have to purchase yet another version of their software.

I use Pages, and Dragon has never worked properly with it for the past several versions. Another problem I found is that I cannot dictate into some programs. I am going to make a new profile this weekend, and its such a pain because I have to enter a lot of unique terms into the program. I first used Dragon 3 on the PC about 18 years ago (it was very bad, back then), and I wish DNS 6 was as good as Dragon 8 for the PC from the past. If I can’t get DNS 6 to work, I’ll roll back to version 4 till future updates fix the problems.

I rarely jump into new versions, but I thought that DNS 6 would have been refined since version 5. Dragon is being a pain in the arse this morning. Trying to dictate into MS Word led to several crashes and loss of data. Switching to Dragon Pad has produced a whole heap of gobbeldegook while trying to get it to capitalise a word. The cost benefit of using Dragon is leaning very firmly in favour of cost at the moment.