I have Scrivener currently and I absolutely love it! But I’m considering getting that Dragon Speech Recognition software to help me out a bit. I searched on Dragon’s web forums and from two posts I found, it seems like Dragon won’t work with Scrivener, except to type into a temporary work box and then copy and paste to Scrivener. Does anyone here know if Scrivener and Dragon can work together?
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I use Dragon version 12.5 with Scrivener 1.80
Dragon does use a Dictation Box with Scrivener, but there is no need to cut and paste. You simply position the cursor in Scrivener where you wish your text to go, then start dictating. Dragon will automatically open a Dictation Box and your prose will appear in the box.
When you have completed your input, you click on a Transfer button at the bottom of the Dictation Box and the dictated passage will appear in Scrivener at your cursor position.
I am having a slight issue with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 when I use it directly in Scrivener, bypassing the dictation box.
It seems to double the punctuation occasionally. It also sometimes doubles a space between two phrases when I pause while dictating.
I know the dictation box works perfectly, but I don’t want to have to keep clicking things with the mouse or telling it to “click transfer”. I just like to work directly into Scrivener because I know it is saving my work, unlike Dragon NaturallySpeaking (if there is some kind of fault and it crashes and loses the whole box full of text).
Maybe I’m just being a little paranoid. :mrgreen:
Has anyone else experienced the double punctuation problem and found a fix?
I use Dragon 13 Pro all the time in Scrivener.
To the first posters, as Teriodin mentioned, you do not need to dictate into the Dictation Box. Under Options/Misc, make sure the “Use the Dictation Box for unsupported applications” is unchecked.
Teriodin, my only thought is… do you use Scrivener fully maximized? If so, make it slightly smaller, so that it runs in a window. (And always make sure you start it before Scrivener, too.)
I was able to fix the type of problems you are describing by just making Scrivener a bit smaller than fully maximized. It sounds odd, but making it run in a window fixed all of those type of issues for me. It’s my only suggestion at this point.
We actually discussed this sometime back on the Knowbrainer forums.
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Update: Dictating into Scrivener using Dragon 15.30 for Windows
I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to post an updated comment about using Dragon to dictate directly into Scrivener’s Edit window for those who are interested.
I am using what is probably now an older version of Dragon for Windows, version 15.30.
The location in Dragon for the ‘Use the Dictation Box for unsupported applications’ (which should be unchecked in order to disable the Dictation Box, and dictate directly into Scrivener’s Edit window) is Tools - Options - Miscellaneous