[DM-MUG] Using Dragon Naturally Speaking on your MAC

[Victoria L. Herring]

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>  >Kevin George wrote:
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>>My impression is that Dragon works on BootCamp but not very well on Parallels
>
>This was discussed a few months ago on the TidBits forum:
><http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx?8@@.3c8e6f0a>http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx?8@@.3c8e6f0a
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>Everyone said Dragon works fine in Parallels, but requires a lot of
>RAM, and Dragon 9 requires more RAM than Dragon 8. The
>recommendation for best speed was to assign to the Parallels virtual
>machine 512 MB for Dragon 8 and 1 GB for Dragon 9. Accordingly, if
>you want to use Dragon 9, it would be best to have at least 3 GB of
>total RAM on your Mac.
>
>In Parallels, it appears that Dragon will not dictate text directly
>into a Mac app. Instead, you have to dictate into a Windows app such
>as Windows Notebook. Afterward, you can either open the windows text
>document with a Mac word processor, or else copy and paste the text
>into a Mac word processor.

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