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The whole thing now feels relatively stable and dictation into Word, Pages and even Google Docs seems a lot smoother (I haven’t yet had a chance to test it in Scrivener, however). The crashes, for the most part, seem to have stopped. The 6.0.6 update, however, belatedly seems to fix an awful lot of the problems that have plagued Mac users this time around. That’s no excuse, of course it should never have been released in the first place. That’s pretty unacceptable for any company, but I wonder whether the sheer level of instability in this version took even Nuance by surprise. It’s hard not to feel like Mac users have been paying to be beta testers since its release. A familiar sight for Mac users of Dragon Professional Individual 6. Even getting the thing to launch could be a challenge – keeping it stable long enough to deliver any form of accurate recognition was even more problematic. Instead, we got a piece of software that promised much (including the new, improved “Deep Learning” speech engine) and instead delivered tear-your-hair-out frustration in spades. This seemed to be the release where Nuance finally unified the branding across both versions of the software, bringing Dragon for the Mac in line with its more mature, feature rich Windows counterpart. Something tells me that it wasn’t meant to be like this.

But this latest release has been nothing short of a disaster.

I don’t say that lightly, by the way – the Mac version has never exactly been a bastion of well-written software. Out of my many years of using Dragon both on the PC and Mac platforms, Dragon Professional Individual for Mac 6 has been the worst performing version of the software I have ever come across.

The 6.0.6 update that was recently released appears to – shock, horror! – fix many of the terrible problems that have plagued this version of the software. After sixupdates to the current version of Dragon Professional Individual for Mac (including one that was subsequently pulled after it turned the program from a crashing, buggy mess into an even worse crashing, buggy mess), it appears Nuance may finally have delivered a stable version of the product. Things are still pretty stable although some quirks still remain. However, Dragon has now been updated to version 6.0.8 which also brings High Sierra compatibility. UPDATE Dec 16 2017: The information in this article is still valid.

Download the last version for mac Old Snook