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February 13th, 2007, 12:09 AM
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| Dragon Naturally Speaking Has anyone tried running Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred (9) under Windows on a Intel chipped iMAC or Macbook ?? I am ready to ditch PC and get a Mac but need to know if this works ??? Ta.  |
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February 13th, 2007, 09:52 AM
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| It works fine, I do this form time to time. You will have to use a USB headset, I have a Plantronics DSP 400 that works well. The only thing that can cause some problems is that parallels can get fussy about when the USB is connected. The simple rule that seems to work for me is plug in the headset before starting/waking parallels and suspend parallels before disconnecting the headset. And yes I wish some one had been able to tell me this before I tried to get things running, it was an experiment when I did it. Good Luck!
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February 14th, 2007, 08:49 AM
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| No problem. As for Parallels, there are two ways that you can run windows on your Mac. The first is BootCamp which gives you the ability to boot into windows, this one is free. The second is a commercial product called Parallels that lets you run windows inside a window on your Mac desktop. I really prefer this as I can use the 2 Windows programs I need while spending 98% of my time in Mac-land.
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March 4th, 2007, 05:43 PM
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| Actually there's more than that lurk, but those are the biggest. |
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May 6th, 2008, 04:19 AM
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| Hi, I also have a question on this topic. I have a Macbook and want to use the Dragon Naturally Speaking preffered 9. The provider of Dragon tells me I need to buy ClaroRead Standard for Mac '08 to make Dragon compatible for the Macbook. He said I don't need to buy the ClaroRead if my macbook has Parallels, Intell processor and Windows XP. Maybe a stupid question; but how can ik check if my macbook has this? Thanks! |
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May 6th, 2008, 08:15 AM
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| Actually, at this point I would not get Dragon for windows anymore. The folks over at MacSpeech have ported it over to OS X as MacSpeech Dictate, it is the same recognition engine as dragon but you can actually use it outside of windows. Now, ClaroRead is a totally different thing, it is for text-to-speech. I have never used it and I am not sure how it compares to the text-to-speech tools that already are present on the Mac.
__________________ Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput! |
