I certainly understand your frustration. At one time, I, too, could dictate directly into Scrivener using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Even so, I understood this dictation app was not supported by Scrivener, unlike, say, Word. After experimenting, I found that while I could dictate directly into Scrivener, there were far too many restrictions on making corrections via voice command. So, I opted to dictate using the dictation box, and I never looked back. In fact, as I mentioned, I came to prefer the dictation box’s ability to isolate what I was dictating; in other words, it removed distractions.
Perhaps at some point something changed, whether to Scrivener or to the dictation software, to prevent it from working directly with Scrivener. I just tested it and found that I, too, can no longer dictate directly into Scrivener, even if I wanted to.
I hope my colleagues who prefer dictating directly into Scrivener can find a way to do so again, though honestly, dictating into the dictation box has advantages worth considering.
@sarralev, I have no idea why you cannot use the dictation box to transfer dictated text into Scrivener, and I hope you get to the bottom of it.
To be clear, we have never “included Dragon support,” and indeed the Dragon site is very vague about how we would even go about doing so.
Scrivener didn’t work before due to anything we did, and it didn’t quit working because of anything we did. This is fundamentally a question for their support team. (Good luck. They have not been especially helpful in the past.)
I suspect the same is true of Word, except that because Word is the big gorilla, the Dragon team has been motivated to maintain that integration.
While I appreciate the ‘cleanness’ of the Dictation Box for some uses, it actually gets in the way for me for most of the dictation I want to do into Scrivener - it is certainly usable, but introduces several more steps for me when working with several different types of templates I use in several of my Scrivener projects.
And I am still very appreciative that Dragon and Scrivener ‘communicated’ for so many years for me when dictating directly into Scrivener.
I always had the awareness, “This shouldn’t be working, but I am very glad it is working”.
An interesting point - for me - about the current state of play when using Dragon to dictate in to Scrivener is that, even if I have the Dictation Box option checked, it now does not automatically come up when I start dictating: I actually have to give the command, “Open Dictation Box”.
As I mentioned in another post in this thread, it is interesting to me that now, even if I have the Dictation Box option checked, the box does not automatically open when I start dictating into Scrivener: I actually have to give the command, “Open Dictation Box” for the box to open.
Further, I can still dictate directly into other programs (like Word, my Yahoo email, and others) which (like Scrivener) Dragon was never supposed to work with, and if I have the option to open Dragon’s Dictation Box checked, it does not open.
Strange, but I am glad I can still dictate directly into those programs.
sarralev, I will be very interested to see if re-installing Dragon works for you.
