Dragon Recorder App Reviews

Im not sure why this app doesnt have the same functionality as the Dragon Medical app. I paid $120 for this software, and would love to be able to: 1) Rewind and record over mistakes 2) Transmit over 3G 3) Organize my recordings (i.e. "Todo," "Journal," "Ideas," etc.) I know that these arent all in the Medical app, but I dont see why the ones that are, arent also in this one. Spread the wealth and youll get 5 stars from me.

This app requires the professional version of Dragon which is $100 more! I found a PDF via Google that mentions this, however, this was not clear reading the app description nor was it clear reading the information on Nuances website. I have the Home edition, and wasted two hours of my time trying to make this work!

I use dragon at the office. On the iPad or iPhone, use Dictamus. It works great. Just email the Dictamus file to your desktop, open it in dragon and it will transcribe. Works much better than this app.

Downloaded the app. And bought the dragonet premium app that cost $199. What garbage!!! I speak well and often in public. setting up my voice recognition was arduous and highly inaccurate. I wasted an entire day trying to get the program to work. Dont waste your time or money. If you are going to utter simple emails (as the examples Nuance uses for the product) then OK. But if you have to dictate anything in sophisticated vocabulary the program is incapable of accuracy. I am furious and exhausted at the end of the first day. Its ready for the trash. I could have typed what I needed faster. What a waste.

I found the voice files from this recorder to be accurate when transcribed by Dragon Medical.

One more time Nuance got it wrong. This and their no support for Mountain Lion on DD 2.5.2 makes it a big fat 0 company.

I have used Dragon for PC for 5 years, and now also for the Mac. So I tried Dragon Recorder. Here is my review (note I work for Cisco Systems and have used Macs and PCs for as long as they have existed - in short, I am experienced), Before I begin, I use Dragon 11.5 for PC and Dragon Dictate 3 for Mac - both work very well Dragon Recorder - my first use. Took about an hour to figure out. I read all the documentation and followed it step by step. Nevertheless, each step was not obvious. The end-to-end process is tortuous, and required further research. It was really designed for a PC. The instructions tell you how to do it either way, until the end, when the Mac instructions cease, and you are on your own. I could figure it out, but good luck to a non technical person. In the last stages, there were surprise steps, like transcription services - no mention of this in the directions, and really not clear what you a re supposed to do. Again, I guessed. It took my text and began "calibrating" - a process which took about 2 minutes for about 40 seconds of spoken text. It turns out, this is a one-time process, and is analogous to "voice training" on the actual Dragon product for PC or Mac. In short, there are so many tricky steps in the process, I will have to create a cheat sheet for future use. I am sure with repeated use (if I even find this worth doing) I will get this down, but you should not expect "ease of use" being an experience you will get. An hour later - OK so it does work - it is just a arduous set of steps - but now that I have "discovered" how it works, it does work pretty well. I did create a Cheat Sheet and here it is. CHEAT SHEET - For Mac/iPhone - Start Dragon Recorder on iPhone - Record the passage by clicking Record button - When back to yourMac, start Safari on the Mac - On iPhone in DR, turn "WiFi Sharing" On - On Mac, with Bonjour enabled, in Safari, find Bonjour, and click in the iPhone selection. You will all your recordings that are on the iPhone CTRL Click on the one you want, select Download selected link as… and select the file location - Remove the .html extension (if there is one), leaving it as a .wav file. At this point, you have the actual voice recording on your Mac. You can play it if you want with any program that understands .wav - On the Mac, in Dragon Dictate, select Tools>Transcription. This will open a Dragon Pad window, and you will see the text appear automatically, as if you were actually dictating. - When done, you can copy the text and paste it into the application of your choice. Good luck - you will need to get going. Once you get the hang of it, it does work well

To save the Iphone file to your PC, you have to buy QuickTime for $30. Get you coming and going.

As others have complained, you think you will be taken to a user manual when you click the link on the phone. Instead, you are taken to a sales pitch. I have most of their Mac products, including Dictate 3 for use with Lion and above. The linked page states compatible with Dictate 3, but the requirements at the bottom of the sales pitch says otherwise. This company has never been Mac-friendly and the instructions on how to do just about anything are confusing and frequently linked to things that are not related to what the link implies. Apparently, THERE IS NO MANUAL FOR THIS PROGRAM, no matter what the "tour" states. Once you reach a set of links for product on the Mac, instead of PDFs for future use, there are a lot of video guides. They try to hook you with Dictate and/or Scribe (a good example being the MacSpeech Dictate that was replaced with Dragon Dictate for the Mac for pre-Lion, which now requires Dragon Dictate 3 for Lion and above but in order to use this app, you need MacSpeech Scribe... in spite of the fact the "preview" states "and now Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 to dictate.") Just be careful! (This Mac user started with the first 128k in April of 1984 and has been a beta tester for many programs over the years... not new to this game.) PS: Additional information: Using an iPhone 5, set for WiFi, attempting to connect to either MacMini or AirPort network, I tried a number of browsers, including Safari. Nothing showed up anywhere. By entering the "suggested" address for a "non-Bonjour" browser in the address window, I was able to see the list of dictation files. The first control-click on the link to the file opens a window of code. By hitting the back key, I returned to the list. This time, control-click DID download the file to my designated download location. This time, I was using 10.6.8 and used MacSpeech Scribe, as listed as required on the linked web page. Of course, I had to start over with a new profile and teach that profile how to transcribe. I dont think the Nuance people have any idea how to make product work on a Mac. I tried a few files that I had dictated as Voice Memos on my iPod 4 and they "converted" more accurately than the two using this app.

The produce does a decent job of recording. I dont like the fact that you dont seem to be able to insert dictation other that at the end. When using Bonjour to transfer the audio file, it automatically inserts and "html" extension. You have to go into "info" after right clicking the file and delete the html extension. It does a decent job of transcription but the correction function is grayed out. If you use a microphone attached to the computer to edit the dictation, you can correct the dictation from the recorder, but it wont allow you to save changes to the user profile. So it basically wont learn from any dictation done on the recorder.

I use this app to dictate notes at the hospital on my iPhone 4S and then upload them to my PC for transcription. It works surprisingly well even with the background noise of the nursing stations. Once you have your file transferred to your computer be sure to simply save it to your hard drive then open it directly with your dragon software. You will have to tap your phone screen during the file transfer as it corrupts if the phone goes into sleep mode during the transfer. You will have to increase the available file size on your computer of you end up with 45 min of dictation at the end of the day as I often do. What I miss and really must be added is the ability to at least back up your recording and then record -over- an error youve just made. Currently you can only back up and listen to your error--not helpful. My dream would be to have both the ability to record over a mistake and the ability to insert at a point in the recording.

very disappointing. Just purchased Dragon Naturally Speaking but neither the recorder nor the remote microphone will even install on my iPhone. No support was available to help you with this problem. I had been looking forward to using these tools and am very disappointed in Nuances lack of support for them.

Recorded my voice clearly. Saved it well on the iPhone, and then transferred it effortlessly to my computer (over Wi-Fi) where I have Dragon already installed, and the conversion from voice to text was perfect. It took me 30 seconds to set this up and use it. Im going to be using this regularly now to collect notes while Im on the go. Then Ill periodically transfer them and transcribe them onto my computer.

Still cant handle the larger screen of the iPhone 5? Cant be that hard to update...

Very Stressful Product. Hard To Get It To Work.

Dragon doesnt make it clear that the iphone audio files created on the iphone are incompatible with Dragon NS for PCs. A converter must be found and used to get a file to be readable by Dragon. Nuance never mentions the problem in any of their literature.

Ive been using this app for over 2 yrs and find recording quality to be outstanding. Works great with Dragon transcribe feature. Needs upgrade that allows saving to cloud like Dropbox and that allows editing files.

There is absolutely nothing novel about this app. Lacks features. And not necessary to use Dragon 12 or 13s transcription feature. All that is needed is a recording in a format that is acceptable to Dragon. If anyone here knows why this app should be used any other then please do tell.

Although I am a huge advocate of their desktop products and have used and currently use, it would seem as though all of their mobile products specifically for iPhone have been left behind. There are no updates, there is no attention to moving progress forward. I would simply request that there was a public statement in the apps to state that the Nuance organization is taking a new mobile direction and will no longer serve the existing applications that have remained static and stagnant.

I was hoping to be able to use this program with Dragon Dictation on my computer. However, it is completely inaccessible with voiceover. A voiceover user cannot even figure out how to record with this program as it is