![]() ![]() The last version, Dragon Professional Individual for Mac 6.0.8, is now over two years old and is only officially compatible with High Sierra (although plenty of people still have it working just fine on more recent versions of macOS). This almost certainly won’t be the case for Dragon, though. Most of the Mac programs you use on an Intel device will continue to work just fine, they say, on an M1 chip until newer, fully optimised versions arrive. That means they can’t run your old Mac software unless it is “emulated”, something Apple states their new Big Sur operating system can do via their Rosetta 2 conversion trickery. The new ARM chips are not compatible with the x86 instruction set found in Intel processors. Apple can now make strides in both speed and battery life. With M1 (and future chip designs), that all changes. For years, razor-thin Apple devices have been hampered by Intel’s hot, power-hungry chips. This is hugely beneficial for Apple – they get to take all of their chip manufacturing in-house, not relying on Intel or anyone else for supply or making progressive leaps forward in speed or efficiency. That’s because Apple’s M1 chip is based on ARM architecture, similar to the processors you will find in your iPhone or iPad. With these new chips, both of these options may have hit a brick wall. Most people have been getting by with using their old copy or had made the leap to running the Windows version via a Parallels virtual machine (VM) or similar. While this could represent a huge leap forward for the Mac platform, it’s significantly problematic for any Mac users of Dragon dictation software.Īs we all know, Nuance discontinued Dragon for the Mac platform back in 2018. Well, that day has come: new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini models have landed sporting the new M1 chip. They announced this back in June and confidently claimed the first Apple Silicon machines would arrive before year end. One thing we all knew, however, was that Apple was planning to replace Intel chips in all Macs over the course of a two-year period. It's worth the time and effort.To say 2020 has been unpredictable is an understatement. ![]() Voice Control is excellent, comes free with the OS and looks like Apple have finally put some work into a feature that has been bubbling under for, well, decades now. And I'm sure users who have to manage with other ability challenges would equally appreciate the ability of being able to choose from and simplify from the list of options.īut this is a small gripe. It's possible to add Accessibility to both the Menu Bar and the new Control panel, but it would be nice to be able to have the specific button for Voice Control without all the rest. Allow me, a few weeks later, to answer my own question because the answers here are somewhat incomplete or misleading.Īctually, while Enchanced Dictation has indeed been removed from Big Sur (and Dragon Dictate doesn't appear to work on the combination of Big Sur and M1 Mac), the new Voice Control feature (found under Accessibility) is excellent, much more accurate than Apple's previous attempts, not limited to x number of words or seconds, and in most ways a very useful alternative method for those of us who like to dictate to our Macs. ![]()
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