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Nuance Launches Dragon Express for Mac

Posted in Apps, Mac, News on 10/11/2011 by J. Glenn Künzler

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Nuance has just launched a huge new addition to their “Dragon” line of dictation software for OS X. Dragon Express puts speech recognition tools (such as voice commands) right in your menu bar, bringing Siri-like functionality to Mac OS X.

Many have speculated that Nuance is one of the main technologies powering Siri’s speech recognition, as well as iOS 5′s built-in dictation feature, so a new version of Dragon tailored to using voice commands on the Mac is big news.

Simply using a keyboard shortcut or clicking the menu bar icon tells the app you’re ready to speak, and the app can perform a variety of tasks, such a sending email, doing a Google search, tweeting, or updating your Facebook status, and can even be used to dictate text into Pages, MS Word for Mac, or any other app that accepts text input.

For those who haven’t tried voice recognition on the Mac yet, Dragon Express provides an affordable opportunity. Dragon Express is available now for $49.99 on the Mac App Store ($49.99, Link).

  • Irritated

    I hate that there are no demo’s at the App Store. I’m not going to buy something without trying it’s functionality. I usually go to the developers site and download the demo (if it’s available). 

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J. Glenn Künzler

Glenn is Managing Editor at MacTrast, and has been using a Mac since he bought his first MacBook Pro in 2006. Now he's up to his neck in Apple, and owns an old iBook, a 2012 MacBook Pro, a third-generation iPad, 2 iPhones, and a Mac Mini that lives at the neighbor's house. He lives in a small town in Utah, enjoys bacon more than you can possibly imagine, and is severely addicted to pie.