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The User Guide, which covers all product editions, provides details on installation, optional settings, voice commands and dictation of different types of text. The guide also includes tips and notes to help you use the software more effectively.

Be sure to also take advantage of our illustrated workbook. For the latest technical details, please see the KnowledgeBase.

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Bluetooth Wireless Headset Guides

Dragon Microphones

Calisto Microphones

We recommend plugging the Bluetooth microphone’s dongle (wireless adaptor) into your computer before you open Dragon.
While the Calisto II's headset is charging, its indicator light glows solid red, but once the headset is fully charged, this light goes off.
The headset does not automatically power on. Once the headset is charged and paired to its dongle, you must power it up by holding its button for about 6 seconds (it then emits 4 ascending beeps), then pressing it for 1 second to activate its radio link to its dongle

Title: Using the Calisto II Bluetooth wireless microphone with Dragon

This video includes how to charge and power up the headset, as well as turn on the connection to its USB wireless adapter. It also covers how to check the “recording device” settings in the Windows Control Panel.

Quick Start Cards

The Quick Start Card helps you quickly install and activate Dragon.

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UPDATE 15/10/2016: I have now been using Dragon 6.0.1 for a couple of weeks, you can read my thoughts here.

UPDATE 28/9/2016: I received a personal phone call from Jeff Lieman, the manager of Engineering at Nuance, encouraging me to try out and review the new version, Dragon 6.01, which was released today. I will try it out over the next few weeks and give you an update.

I’m so disappointed with the latest version of Dragon for Mac 6 released yesterday that I’m not even going to write a review. I will make some comments though for those who might be thinking of upgrading.

Dragon for Mac 6 (renamed Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, v6) crashes every few minutes. It does crazy mistakes like â€œagainnâ€, â€œconsistsntâ€ and “wonâ€™tt”. There have been a couple of times it has taken complete control of my computer and spat out endless garbage like Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿

I cannot even force quit it because it is an invisible application. I cannot go into activity monitor to quit because I have lost control of my keyboard. I’ve installed it on my Macbook Air but it’s too unstable to put on my main Mac.

Here are some comments from actual users:

“profound disappointment.”Kevin

“this version of Dragon is so much garbage that I thought I might be able to warn others”Zach

“Upgrading to dragon 6 is the worse decision I have made in a long time.”Max

“shouldn’t Nuance be beta-testing new releases with users so these bugs get squashed before a general release?”Jon

“I find it surprising that this version has been released when it clearly contains so many errors.”Peter

“I am also frustrated with version 6, and like Zach, I’ve been a user since the MacSpeech iListen days.”Stephen

“Now instead of just messing up and quitting, the 6.0 version just stops working and gives you a spinning beach ball.”Mary

“getting a little tiresome”adsub

“very disappointed that Nuance would put out such an unstable version.”Mark

“it is not a positive experience.”David

“Getting Dragon version 6 for the Macintosh to work for me was a huge pain.”Fletch

“What good is improved UI when the guts don’t work.”Andrew

“Big promises for Dragon 6, but a complete failure on delivery. Don’t buy it!”Tersh

“It has crashed more than 10 times in 6 days in the course of doing very ordinary dictation tasks.”Steve

“by far the worst release I’ve seen as far as bugs and erratic behavior in a program version that’s virtually useless”Mark

“I feel like Charlie Brown, each time they come out with a new version I think that it will be different but then they pull the football away.”

And my favourite:

“The only “Deep Learning” taking place here is that I must not allow myself to be ripped off yet again!”Arnold

We know we are desperate if people are suggesting solutions like this:

“why don’t you try Dragon for Windows (using a Windows bootcamp partition or a virtual machine)?”Marius

I am very disappointed because previously this was one of my favourite pieces of software.

You can read more on the Nuance customer forums here.

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A final note, be wary of reviews like this one that are overly positive – they are selling the software!

Dragon For Mac 6 User Manual