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Trying to dictate into MS Word led to several crashes and loss of data.

As with previous Dragon releases the speech recognition is excellent but the stability is problematic.

My suggestion is to stay with Dragon version 5 if you own it.

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However, if you are running the latest version of Dragon for Mac 6, here are some tips on how to get it working with the least amount of spinning beach balls.

Try a different version version 6.0.7 may be better with Mac OS Sierra (10.12) In Dragon 6.0.8 and High Sierra the scratch that command doesnt always work and the correction window doesnt always work.

I am now running 6.0.8 with High Sierra and unfortunately I cant tell whether it is High Sierra or Dragon 6.0.8 that is causing more crashes.

Either way, 6.0.7 with Sierra was better.

Prior to 6.0.7 I found the most stable version to be 6.0.5.

Use a new profile.

Delete your old profile and start again.

The recognition is so good in the new version that you wont really need your old profile anyway.

It seems to have more problems when you import your old voice data.

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When you install Dragon it tries to use your old preferences, but in this process some of the preferences can get corrupted.

For stability purposes, do not dictate into supported Apps like Apple Pages and Microsoft Word.

For some reason Scrivener seems to be OK, Unsupported apps may work better.

Try not to do too much clicking with the mouse.

In previous versions it was OK to mix a combination of speaking and typing but version 6 doesnt cope as well with that.

Try not to do too many corrections when you are dictating.

When dictating into Apple Pages Dragon crashes almost every time I try to do something other than straight dictation.

Other Dragon Articles Dragon 6 review Dragon 6.0.1 review Dragon 6.0.2 review Tags dragon, speech recognition Dragon for Mac version 6 Review I am a Pizza Mogul 38 replies on How to stop Dragon for Mac 6 from crashing Jon says: September 8, 2016 at 4:35 am Kudos to you for trying to help out for people that as you say, made the mistake of purchasing Dragon for Mac 6.

The reality is that when I that you can sum up your post by saying that the new version doesnt work with anything that you might want it to, and on the rare occasions when it does work, that only happens under limited circumstances.

I cant believe that I gave reached this point, however quality dictation is so important to my work that I am switching back to PC after many happy years with a Mac.

I had hoped that the new version would make it possible to avoid that.

Most annoying of all is that this is a victory for Nuance as i will have to purchase yet another version of their software.

Reply GMM says: September 8, 2016 at 8:03 pm Thank you for posting this information.

I am dictating using my Mac, and unlike Dragon 6, it doesnt crash.

Reply Wayne says: September 9, 2016 at 2:57 am What software are you using Reply By Post Author GMM says: September 10, 2016 at 6:14 am I use Pages, and Dragon has never worked properly with it for the past several versions.

Another problem I found is that I cannot dictate into some programs.

I am going to make a new profile this weekend, and its such a pain because I have to enter a lot of unique terms into the program.

I first used Dragon 3 on the PC about 18 years ago (it was very bad, back then), and I wish DNS 6 was as good as Dragon 8 for the PC from the past.

If I cant get DNS 6 to work, Ill roll back to version 4 till future updates fix the problems.

I rarely jump into new versions, but I thought that DNS 6 would have been refined since version 5.

Not. Simon says: January 28, 2017 at 2:33 am Dragon is being a pain in the arse this morning.

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