Review: Dragon Dictate 3 sharpens speech recognition, learns transcription. By Kirk McElhearn. Contributor, Macworld SEP 26, 2012 10:00 pm PDT. At a Glance Expert's Rating. Pros.

I’ve been playing with the new Nuance Dragon Dictate 2 for Mac which uses the same best-in-class speech recognition engine as Dictate 11 for PC, and have to say this is a more than worthy upgrade.

— -- I'm writing this column per usual in Microsoft Word. What isn't typical is how I am "typing" words onto the computer: I'm dictating into a microphone. The technology has come a long way ...

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Dragon Notes ($20) is a sticky-note program with speech recognition capabilities. Dragon Home ($75) is for basic users—people who are looking to write emails, school papers, and grocery lists ...

In terms of speech recognition accuracy, there appears to be no difference between Dragon Home and Dragon Professional. The Home edition uses the same speech engine as Professional.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is the premiere voice-recognition software package. Its latest version adds additional accuracy.