Dictation Software For Mac Catalina

Posted on 28.11.202022.08.2017by admin

The software is powered by an all-new, next-generation speech engine. It utilizes 'Deep Learning' technology for a more accurate dictation and transcription. Dragon Professional Individual for Mac 6.0 adapts to your voice and environmental variations. You can use your voice to dictate and edit reports, send e-mails and notes, and even fill out.
Here is an introduction to using Voice Control on a Mac running macOS Catalina when it's released. Dictation Mode: Use this to dictate and use voice commands. The older Dictation software.
To set up Dictation on your Mac, follow these steps: From the Apple menu, click System Preferences Keyboard Dictation. Turn on Dictation. Next, choose whether you want to enable Enhanced Dictation, so you can use the feature even when you’re offline. Select your language and dialect.

Make sure you check for incompatible apps before you upgrade to macOS Catalina, because it no longer supports 32-bit apps!

Let’s take a look at the full list of 235 incompatible apps that the macOS Catalina installer has been programmed to look for.

Why Are These Apps Incompatible With macOS Catalina?

While many developers have transitioned their software to 64-bit versions over the years, there are still many 32-bit apps out there.

This software combines both Dictation and Transcription solutions providing playback of dictation and organising and editing of voice files Support for DS-9500/9000 devices has been added Support for DS-2600 has been added Support for the RecMic II range has been added Installer enables installation of the latest DSS Player for Mac V7.5.4 software. The State Of Dictation Software On Mac In 2020. Unfortunately even in 2020, the market for desktop dictation software for Mac is extremely small. For years the leading solution has been Dragon Dictate Professional for Mac but the developer Nuance dropped a bombshell in October 2018 that it was discontinuing the product.

After all, not everyone is able or willing to upgrade to the latest version of any software. There are plenty of people who are happy to stick with the software they purchased years ago.

However, macOS Catalina is the first macOS operating system to drop all support for 32-bit apps, rendering all those apps incompatible.

There is no workaround – they will not work with macOS Catalina, period.

What If My App Is In The macOS Catalina Incompatible List?

If an app you are using is listed above, then it is a 32-bit app that will not work with macOS Catalina.

You have two options at this point :

a) if you want to use macOS Catalina – you will need to uninstall that app, and replace it with a 64-bit alternative

b) if you want to continue using the app – then you should NOT upgrade to macOS Catalina. Just stick to macOS Mojave or earlier, and you will do just fine.

Check Your Other Apps Before Upgrading To Catalina!

It would be wise not to just rely on the list of incompatible apps that macOS Catalina recognises, because it is just a partial list of all the 32-bit apps that are still being used worldwide.

You should identify the other 32-bit apps you need to upgrade or replace, before upgrading to macOS Catalina.

The Full List Of 235 Apps Incompatible With macOS Catalina

Hidden in the macOS Catalina’s installer code is a list of 235 apps that Apple has identified to be incompatible.

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, and mainly covers popular software that Apple will highlight as incompatible during the upgrade process.

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1Password 2.12.1 or earlier
3D Weather Globe / 3D Weather Globe Deluxe Edition / 3D Weather Globe 2 Screensaver
3ivx 504 or earlier
ADmitMac 9.0.1 or earlier
Adobe Creative Cloud 1.0.x or earlier
Adobe Creative Cloud 1.1.x or earlier
AirDisplay 1.6.3 or earlier
AJA 12.2.1 or earlier
AJA Io HD Driver 6.0.3 or earlier
Antidote HD 7.2 or earlier
Antidote HD 3.1.6 or earlier
Antidote RX
App Tamer 2.0.5 or earlier
Apple Configurator 1.9.9 or earlier
Asepsis
AT&T Laptop Connect Card 1.0.4 or earlier
AT&T Laptop Connect Card 1.0.5 or earlier
AT&T Laptop Connect Card 1.10.0 or earlier
Avast! 1.0.1 or earlier
Avast Mac Security 10.14 or earlier
Avid CoreAudio Plugin 12.1.0.x or earlier
Bark 1.1 or earlier
Bark 1.0.1 or earlier
Belkin Router Monitor
Best Youtube Downloader
Billings Pro 1.6.5 or earlier
Box Sync 4.0.6567 or earlier
Camouflage 2.0 or earlier
Canon UFRII 2.25 or earlier
Canon UFRII 2.35 or earlier
cDock 1.1.3 or earlier
CHUD
Clusters 1.7 or earlier
CosmoPod 4.5.1 or earlier
DAVE 12.0.1 or earlier
Default Folder X 4.3.10 or earlier
Disk for iPhone
DisplayLink 1.9 or earlier
DisplayPad 5 or earlier
DisplayPad 1.4 or earlier
DivX 1.3 or earlier
DoubleCommand 1.6.9 or earlier
Dropbox 1.1.34 or earlier
eID 4.0.7 or earlier
ESET Cyber Security 6.0.14 or earlier
FastCut Threshold Plugin 1.0 or earlier
Flip4Mac 3.0 or earlier
FortiClient 5.4.0.493 or earlier
FinderPop 2.4.9 or earlier
Final Cut Server Preference 1.5.2 or earlier
Genieo 2.0 or earlier
GlimmerBlocker 1.4.12 or earlier
Glims 1.0b34 or earlier
Glims 1.0.42 or earlier
Google Japanese IM 1.13.1880 or earlier
GPG Mail 2.5.1 or earlier
Growl 1.2.2 or earlier
Gutenprint 5.2.10 or earlier
Hear Plugin 1.0.4 or earlier
Hear Plugin 1.0.5 or earlier
Hear Plugin 1.1.4 or earlier
InstantOn 7.2.1 or earlier
iStat Menus 2.9 or earlier
iStat Menus 4.20 or earlier
iStat Menus 5.10 or earlier
iStat Server 2.21 or earlier
Kaspersky Antivirus 2.2.0d16 or earlier
Kanbox 1.1.2.x or earlier
Kanbox 1.1.1 or earlier
KeyMagic 1.5 or earlier
KinemeCore 0.5.1 or earlier
LabTech Agent 1.0 or earlier
LaCie USB 3.0 Driver 1.0.8 or earlier
launch2net Drivers 2.13.0 or earlier
LazyMouse 2.5 or earlier
Litecoin Ticker 1.337 or earlier
Little Snitch 1.2.64 or earlier
Little Snitch 2.5.3 or earlier
Little Snitch 3.3 or earlier
Line6 TonePort Driver 4.1.0 or earlier
Logitech Control Center 3.9.4 or earlier
M-Audio Driver 1.10.1 or earlier
M-Audio Driver 2.3.1 or earlier
Macspoofer 1.0 or earlier
Magican 1.4.8 or earlier
McAfee Internet Security 3.3 or earlier
McAfee Security 1.0.0d1 or earlier
McAfee VirusScan 8.6 or earlier
Mou 0.8.7 or earlier
Move Media Player
MyBook RAID Manager 1.0.1 or earlier
Net Nanny 3.1.7 or earlier
Norton AntiVirus
Norton Internet Security 5.9.1 or earlier
Opswat Gears 10.2.185 or earlier
Parallels 2.5 or earlier
Parallels 7.0.15094 or earlier
Parallels Access 2.0.0 or earlier
Pen Tablet Preference 5.3.3-3
Plaxo 1.0 or earlier
Plaxo 3.16.2 or earlier
Plaxo 3.0 or earlier
Printopia 2.1.10 or earlier
Pro Tools 9.0f121 or earlier
Qmaster Components
Qmaster Preference 3.5 or earlier
QT Desktop Video Out 1.2.7 or earlier
QuickBooks 2009 10.0f2440 or earlier
QuickBooks 2010 11.0f2972 or earlier
QuickBooks 2011 12.0f5460 or earlier
QuickBooks 2012 13.0.f7630 or earlier
QuickBooks 2013 14.0f10166 or earlier
QuickBooks 2014 15.0f2630 or earlier
QuickBooks 2015 16.0.6 or earlier
Quicken Essentials 1.7.4 or earlier
QQ Input 2.8.999 or earlier
QQ Mac Manager 2.4.0 or earlier
Rapport 1.0 or earlier
Rapport 2.0 or earlier
Razer Kraken Audio Plugin 1.04 or earlier
Razer Kraken 7.1 Audio Plugin 1.02 or earlier
Razer Kraken 7.1 Chroma Audio Plugin 1.04 or earlier
Razer Kraken 7.1 Blue Audio Plugin 1.03 or earlier
Razer Kraken 7.1 v2 Audio Plugin 1.1 or earlier
Razer Mamba 2012 1.07 or earlier
Razer ManOWar Audio Plugin 1.2 or earlier
Rubbernet 1.2 or earlier
Screen Sharing 1.4 or earlier
Seagate Maxtor NotificationExec 4.1.6 or earlier
SecureVault LexarFilter 2.2.0 or earlier
Shake 4.10 or earlier
Smith Micro Internet Cleanup 5.0.4 or earlier
Smith Micro Internet Cleanup 5.1.1 or earlier
SMS Widget 3.4 or earlier
Snapz Pro X 4.0.0 or earlier
Sogou IM 2.9.0 or earlier
Sonner Qio 2.7.1 or earlier
Sophos AntiVirus 7.2.0 or earlier
Sophos AntiVirus 9.4.4 or earlier
Sophos Auto Update 7.3.4 or earlier
Sophos Endpoint 9.5.2 or earlier
Sophos Home 9.4.4 or earlier
Sound Bunny 1.0.1 or earlier
Sound Control 2.2.3 or earlier
SourceTree 1.5.6 or earlier
Sony Palm 6 Sync Driver 2.0.1 or earlier
SRS iWOW 3.1.x or earlier
SRS iWOW 3.0.x or earlier
SugarSync Manager 1.9.26 or earlier
Suitcase Fusion 17.0.0 or earlier
SugarSync 1.0 or earlier
SugarSync 1.0.9 or earlier
Switcher Maestro
SuperDrive Update 2.1 or earlier
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.6565 or earlier
Synergy KM 1.0.1 or earlier
Sxs Memory Card Driver 1.0.45049 or earlier
TabExpose 2.3 or earlier
TelldusCenter 2.1.1 or earlier
TorchUpdated 25.0 or earlier
TotalFinder 1.6.2 or earlier
TotalSpaces 1.2.9 or earlier
Transmit 4.1.7 or earlier
Trend Smart Surfing 1.6.1089 or earlier
Trim Enabler 3.2.4 or earlier
Trusteer Endpoint Protection 1609.22 or earlier
Undercover 5.5 or earlier
VirusBarrier 10.6.12 or earlier
Visor 2.2 or earlier
Videobox TAAVPlugin 2.3T or earlier
Virtru 1.0.2 or earlier
Vodafone v2.0.6 or earlier
VMWare Fusion 3.1.4 or earlier
VMWare Fusion 4.1.1 or earlier
Wacom 6.3.8-2 or earlier
WD Drive Manager 2.2.7 or earlier
WD SmartWare 2.1.x or earlier
WD SmartWare 1.0.x or earlier
WebEx Outlook Plugin 32.5.1 or earlier
XtraFinder 0.25.4 or earlier
ZEV0 2012.09.23 or earlier

The list was consolidated somewhat, combining minor revisions for the same software.

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macOS Catalina made accessibility worse for users that utilize their voice to type. This is a multi-faceted issue, and I will walk you through my daily hell.

(if you want to know why this matters to me <–)

I’m still 3 music-based articles behind, so I spent portions of this weekend putting together this article while I revisit Prolog. Not much I can do when the software I’m reviewing is broken or suddenly has a major updating looming.

I really should write more how-tos I suppose. Anyway, on to the rant.

If you have any questions or comments, please comment below! I read every comment and respond to most. No registration is necessary to comment, so don’t be shy.

Dictation
Voice Control

The best voice to text option on macOS was Nuance Dragon for Mac. In 2018 they canned it.

Dragon for Mac barely worked, but it did work. Updates to macOS, frameworks and Dragon’s authorization server’s spottiness quickly made the software unusable by early 2019.

Approximately 1 year later, macOS Catalina was released with the new Voice Control feature which promised…the exact same features of Dragon for Mac.

The connection isn’t difficult to make, given that “Voice Control” is powered by the Siri engine which itself is powered by technology from Nuance Communications (the maker of Dragon).

try the drivers from on of the sticks Huawei still sells (even though they seem to support only up to 10.8 either). /mobile-partner-for-mac-os-mojave.html. You could. reach out to Huawei support directly. The way kexts work changed in the latest releases of macOS.

This doesn’t sound like a sad story on the surface, but you’ve yet to be exposed to Apple’s ineptitude.

Macs have had the dictation feature since OS X Jaguar. It’s a server-side interpretation of speech which appears to simulate typing in some manner on the client.

Dictation works on nearly every text input widget. If it accepts text, then you can utilize the dictation feature.

BUT IT IS TERRIBLE

I speak relatively accent neutral. I am able to utilize Dragon with minimal effort, and friends are amazed when Siri understands every single word I say.

macOS Dictation has no clue. Around 50% of the output looks like some transliterated mess, with me speaking an alien language. Over time I’ve learned what it can and can’t do well, but that’s insufficient for daily work.

It WAS better

Dictation of old

Dictation at least used to have options. The option of note was the ability to activate it by voice input. Obviously you don’t want random speech interfering with your computer’s operation, but you also don’t want that pop-up microphone on your screen at all times (you’ll see why this matters later).

After months (since mid 2019) of messing with the dictation feature, I did learn which words I could accurately get across. I would switch between dictation and typing to reduce the load on my hands.

That is gone in Catalina.

It’s replaced by….

One of Catalina’s headline features: Voice Control.

It has the basic features that you could want from Speech-to-Text:

Commands - A variety of commands to control your computer, edit text and the ability to add scripted commands to recognized vocalizations.
- Mouse Control - Selection of items by number, a grid overlay to click portions of the screen.
Dictionary - Add new words to the recognition database, so I can say “Cubase” and not get “QBase”.
Accurate - Voice Control types what I say with few errors.

Four things that change the world for people like me.

It works fantastic…

When it works.

Raw Input

I use System Preferences->Accessibility->Display->Increase Contrast on my computer.

Look what it does to the ALWAYS ON TOP Voice Control icon (the black thing center right). It’s a mess!

We can peer further into the depths of Apple’s development by looking at the Dictation icon while using the same settings:

Oh.

OH. That looks fine.

Subtract the fact that the body of the microphone is supposed to be an input level meter. The level indicator works with neither overlay if you have “Increase Contrast” turned on.

I sometimes wonder if anyone actually uses this stuff.

Bug Fixes

Catalina 10.15.2 allowed me to use Voice Control with Emacs. It was an odd exception.

Luckily 10.15.3 “fixed” that issue. Now I can’t use it with any text editor that I use. Glad they squashed that terrible bug.

Best Dictation For Mac

Thanks Apple.

Word For Mac Dictation

There are no functional alternatives. The alternative products that do work, rely on Dragon for mac. The rest require extensive configuration (or developing your own application from a framework) to end up with a mediocre solution.

I’d love to be wrong. If you use something or find something (and try it) that works, please let me know!

I’m stuck on a platform I generally like, but with limited ability to utilize my computer. I work in cycles of 15 minutes on, 5-10 minutes off. I’ve become adept at utilizing spelling-correction to fix frequent errors.