While half decent dictation features come with every Mac (and are powered by Nuance’s technology), the voice recognition features you get with latest version of Nuance’s Dragon Dictate for Mac go well beyond simply dictating speech to text. They simply aren’t accurate and consistent enough to replace our tried and trusted mouse and keyboard or touchscreen. There’s good reason too: the voice recognition features built into our devices have always had the reputation of being half-baked. For many of us, using voice recognition technology wasn’t even a consideration until features like dictation and Siri arrived on our iPhones and iPads.
Using our voice to control computers has never really taken off.
