From Dragon to your Mac
Until now you dictated with Dragon on a PC, and now the computer on your desk is a Mac. We have put what Dragon’s own page lists today next to shepetal, so you can see what you get on macOS and start dictating on the Mac you have.
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Side by side
| shepetal | Dragon | |
|---|---|---|
| On-device or cloud | On your Mac, and your voice stays there. | Dragon Professional v16 is “Locally installed”, and the Dragon Anywhere products are “cloud-hosted”. dragon.nuance.comas of |
| Platforms | Mac, with macOS 14 or later. | Windows. Its page: Dragon Professional v16 is “optimized for Windows 11”. The page names no Mac version. dragon.nuance.comas of |
| Price | $23.99 once. Yours forever.$0.99 a month.You can try it free for 30 days. | No price on its page. Licensing goes through its “Contact us” link. dragon.nuance.comas of |
Every line on another app here comes from its own pages, and each one links the page and the day we checked it. shepetal is independent of these apps and of the companies that make them.
What Dragon lists
Dragon’s page lists Dragon Professional v16 for Windows 11 as a locally installed app, and the Dragon Anywhere products as cloud-hosted, with licensing through Contact us. dragon.nuance.comas of
On your Mac
You install shepetal and it downloads speech recognition once, and from then on you speak and your words appear wherever your cursor is, in every app, and every dictation is processed on your Mac.
shepetal knows 25 European languages on a Mac with Apple silicon, among them English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Polish, and English on an Intel Mac.
Which to pick
Pick Dragon if
- You work on Windows 11 and want a Dragon app installed on your PC. dragon.nuance.comas of
Pick shepetal if
- You work on a Mac and want your words in every app.Works in every app.
- You want every dictation processed on your Mac, which is the only way shepetal works.
- You want to pay once and keep it.$23.99 once. Yours forever.
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Sources
- Dragon, On-device or cloud: Dragon Professional v16 is “Locally installed”, and the Dragon Anywhere products are “cloud-hosted”. https://dragon.nuance.com/en-us/dragon, checked .
- Dragon, Platforms: Windows. Its page: Dragon Professional v16 is “optimized for Windows 11”. The page names no Mac version. https://dragon.nuance.com/en-us/dragon, checked .
- Dragon, Price: No price on its page. Licensing goes through its “Contact us” link. https://dragon.nuance.com/en-us/dragon, checked .
- Dragon’s page lists Dragon Professional v16 for Windows 11 as a locally installed app, and the Dragon Anywhere products as cloud-hosted, with licensing through Contact us. https://dragon.nuance.com/en-us/dragon, checked .
- You work on Windows 11 and want a Dragon app installed on your PC. https://dragon.nuance.com/en-us/dragon, checked .
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