(It probably goes without saying that I dictated this entire column. After 25 years, full-blown, professionalĭictation software has finally come to the Mac.ĭictate ($200 with headset $50 upgrade) runs in the background and translates everything you say into typewritten text into any Mac program. really, everybody would’ve been a lot happier if a Mac dictation app had been available all along - but it’s almost everything it should be. It’s something that many Mac fans have been awaiting for more than a decade. The result, now called Dragon Dictate for the Mac, made its debut last week. Taylor’s team harness all of the company’s enormous dictation-software expertise,

Its latest recognition technology, the one that drives NaturallySpeaking 11 for Windows, to the Mac - and to let Mr.

Apparently the resurgence of Apple and the Mac was dramatic enough for Nuance to get interested - and it bought Andrew Taylor’s little company.

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