Hello, everyone. Dragon has stopped working for Writer. Dragon stopped working with 4.0. It had worked previously. Dragon has a feature where you can use a 'dictation box' and transfer text to Writer (Or any 'unsupported application) however, I just used the box today and after 20 minutes of talking, I hit "transfer" for my text to go to Writer and it failed! So, clearly, the dictation box is unreliable. I've been reading that it is Dragon's responsibility that their product works with OpenOffice. Well, as I said, it did until 4.0. so it makes me think the OO team changed something so that it would no longer work...
What can I do? I love Writer, but I need to be able to use Dragon.
Writer and Dragon Naturally Speaking
Writer and Dragon Naturally Speaking
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Open Office: 4.0.1
OS: Windows 7
OS: Windows 7
Re: Writer and Dragon Naturally Speaking
Welcome to the forum.
Sorry no-one has answered your query.
See this bug report ACCESSIBILITY: Make Apache OpenOffice usable for speech recognition and this one Apache OpenOffice does not respond to Windows Speech Recognition on Windows OSs and this post Windows 7 Speech to Text which will give you some background to the issues.
I suggest you contact Dragon Naturally Speaking and ask them if their product will be updated.
Until it is fixed, the best workaround is probably to dictate into a Microsoft program (like MS WordPad, MS Works Word Processor, or even MS Notepad - all are supplied free with Windows) to get the text, and copy the text to AOO for final editing.
Sorry no-one has answered your query.
See this bug report ACCESSIBILITY: Make Apache OpenOffice usable for speech recognition and this one Apache OpenOffice does not respond to Windows Speech Recognition on Windows OSs and this post Windows 7 Speech to Text which will give you some background to the issues.
I suggest you contact Dragon Naturally Speaking and ask them if their product will be updated.
Until it is fixed, the best workaround is probably to dictate into a Microsoft program (like MS WordPad, MS Works Word Processor, or even MS Notepad - all are supplied free with Windows) to get the text, and copy the text to AOO for final editing.
LO 6.4.4.2, Windows 10 Home 64 bit
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
Re: Writer and Dragon Naturally Speaking
I came across this extension SpeechOO - Dictation pad for OpenOffice which seems to be a Spanish Speech to text add on for AOO.
LO 6.4.4.2, Windows 10 Home 64 bit
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
Re: Writer and Dragon Naturally Speaking
According to Nuance UK Datasheets page, Dragon Naturally Speaking Home 12 supports OpenOffice Writer under XP (Microsoft no longer supports XP, so this may not be available now), Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
LO 6.4.4.2, Windows 10 Home 64 bit
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
Re: Writer and Dragon Naturally Speaking
A thought.
Could the reason why Dragon did? does? not work with Writer v4.x be because the Extensions Interface changed with AOO v4 (I think it was with v4). Dragon may need to update their software - something which should be fairly trivial for them to do. See Is it simple to update an Add-on which no longer works?
Could the reason why Dragon did? does? not work with Writer v4.x be because the Extensions Interface changed with AOO v4 (I think it was with v4). Dragon may need to update their software - something which should be fairly trivial for them to do. See Is it simple to update an Add-on which no longer works?
LO 6.4.4.2, Windows 10 Home 64 bit
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.
Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.