I have tried literally all versions of Dragon for Mac and it's predecessors since 2007. I typically do not use features outside of dictation, so I don't care much about the commands otherwise. My needs for dictation software is geared towards dictating very long medical reports (i.e., neuropsychological reports that run 2 to 20 pages per patient, which often requires summarizing records from various medical speciality areas). I currently use a VEC SoundTech GN-USB-2 gooseneck mic, but even lower quality mics worked reasonably well with this setup.
As a long time Mac fan and reluctant Windows user, I want to share the dictation setup that I have been very content for the past year: I am using a MacBook Pro (2017, 16 GB Ram) with VMWare Fusion running Windows with Dragon Professional Individual (15.3 medical vocabulary). I have been silently following this thread since it was started a couple of years ago. Most Dragon end-users simply don't want cloud computing capabilities but there are some advantages. This would take considerably less development and might just make everyone happy. We would like to see Nuance switch to a hybrid variation that is primary localized like Microsoft Office 365. Even if you only dictate, no one can type 180 wpm and dictation is only the tip of the speech recognition iceberg.As you pointed out, Nuance is struggling with many cloud computing capabilities that are only available on local installations such as Advanced-Scripting and AI like macros. 2% of our Dragon sales but we suspect this will eventually be a problem for Mac computer sales because at some point, everyone is going to be seriously using speech recognition. Oddly enough, speech recognition sales simply didn't amount to a hill of beans. Thank goodness we didn't waste our time since Nuance pulled the plug anyway. For example, KnowBrainer 2017 was never designed to run on a Mac. Most software developers either ignore the Mac market or look at the Mac OS as an afterthought. Windows dominates the market with an 88% share so that's where the money is. From watching television, you would think that the Mac OS is used on half of desktop, notebook and tablet computers but it's actually less than 10%. Dragon versions for Mac were accurate but much less featured than the Windows versions. Developing anything on the Mac side tends to be far less profitable and typically receives less attention. Nuance probably couldn't justify the R&D cost of supporting Mac while developing other markets such as cloud computing on Windows and independent versions of AI. Nuance may have originally planned on continuing the consumer DPI6 version of Dragon for Mac but decided to 86 it 3 weeks after 86ing Dragon Medical.
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