Support for Dragon NS in Wine

[Steven Druker]

Susan, thanks for your continued research.  It's giving me a good grasp of
reality.

On that note, will it be possible to run the various MS Office 2003 apps. on
the Mac with Crossover, or will there be so many snags that it makes more
sense to buy the Office product designed for Mac?  This is a question for
all of you.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net>wrote:

> 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
>>
>> Well, I tested 7 and 8 last night with a current git. For 7, bug 15708 is
> still active. I was unable to do the workaround.
> 8 installs and trains without a problem but then does not run. I filed a
> bug report. bug 17057.
> I will do a little more work on this and keep you updated.
> Susan
>
>
>
>


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