Support for Dragon NS in Wine

Steven Druker sdruker at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 18:00:53 CST 2009


Thanks to all of you.  This is very helpful information.  Susan, I
appreciate your willingness to run more tests.  I'm particularly interested
in being able to run NS on CrossOver Mac by Codeweavers.  I am planning on
switching from a PC to a Mac, and for several reasons, I don't want to have
to install the Windows operating system and use Boot Camp or Fusion.  I
already own NS 8 Professional and am hoping it can function on the Mac and
be used on Office applications designed for the Mac (and on Mac
applications, too).  I don't need most of the features that go beyond the
Preferred version, so if I stick to those features available on Preferred,
would I get good functionality?

Of course, if I could also use the feature that records and saves a
transcript of specific dictations (not available on Preferred), it would be
especially nice.  Any possibility of your testing that out?

I was hoping I could upgrade to the new version 10 and use it on the Mac,
but it seems that would not be a good idea at this time.

I'll be grateful for whatever further assistance you can provide.

Steve D.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net>wrote:

> >On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Jeff Zaroyko <jeffzaroyko at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> While I don't own any NS product, two open bugs to come to mind for NS
> >> 8, one affecting the installer but with a workaround, bug 15708 and
> >> the other a user has reported a regression bug 16248 but was not
> >> interested in running a regression test.
> >>
> >> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15708
> >> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16248
> >
> >I think those were both for NS 7, not 8...
> >A full list of NS bugs is at
> >http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=Dragon+Naturally+Speaking
> >Looks like 9 is happier than 10...?
>
> I have 7, 8, 9, 9.5 and 10 here.
> I'll test a couple tonight, maybe 7 and 8, on today's git.
> Here's what I remember.
> 7 worked great right out of the box at one time, with all-native code.
> 8 is virtually the same product as 7. Ditto worked great. (Nobody bought 8
> much because it was the same engine as 7.)
> 9.0 worked pretty good out of the box with a couple of glitches.
> 9.5 does not install, and works not at all, except for one lucky man who
> developed a workaround that doesn't always work.
> (9.5 replaced 9.0 as "version 9," and 9.0 is no longer sold, at least in
> the US.)
> 10.0 installs well and runs pretty well for 10 minutes, then nasty crashes
> happen.
>
> Wine support has been given primarily for the two cheapest "consumer"
> versions, Standard and Preferred.
> Very few people have asked about Professional, and I don't know of anyone
> who has tried to make Professional 8 run with wine.
>
> Susan
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