Kirkville:

Nuance has announced that the company has discontinued Dragon Professional Individual for Mac. This was the most recent name of the company’s speech recognition software for macOS.

Following the acquisition of MacSpeech in 2010, Nuance created Dragon Dictate, a Mac version of their popular Windows speech recognition software. As a long-time user of this type of software, I’ve followed its progress over the years, as it improved greatly, then was ignored since last year’s update for macOS Yosemite. The software was very good, but the company was always plagued by poor support, expensive upgrades, and a general disdain for the Mac platform.

I knew the folks at MacSpeech and, while they tried to make a go of it as an independent company, they just didn’t have the resources to develop it much further when Nuance came calling. I spoke to MacSpeech about it then and they admitted it was just going to be a matter of time before Nuance killed this product. But it had a good run.