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CDs and DVDs are still very popular when it comes to distributing audio and video content: NTI Dragon Burn is an easy to use Mac OS X utility that enables you to create your own, without having to deal with complicated settings.
Upon launch, the NTI Dragon Burn application automatically opens an new layout and you must decide what type of project you ant to create: audio CD, MP3 CD, Live Audio (you get to burn a live recording directly to CD), Data CD / DVD, CD / DVD copy, Multiple Copy, Video (VCD Movie CD, SVCD Movie CD, or VIDEO_TS), Picture CD, or Custom CD.
Regardless of your choice, the next step is to provide the data that you want burned to a CD or a DVD: the process is fairly intuitive and you should not encounter major issues. NTI Dragon Burn support most popular image file formats (BIN, CUE, DMG, ISO, CDR, and NCD), but can also handle multiple audio file formats (AAC, AV, SD2, AIFF, CDDA)
Via the NTI Dragon Burn Recorder menu you have the option to visualize the disc or recorder information, or to quickly erase the disc. This is very useful when working with re-writable discs.
Further customization options are available in the Preferences window: you get to enable the disc auto naming, to disable the data verification, to adjust the RAM usage, to change the default MP3 quality, or to activate the Disc-At-Once Overburn mode.
NTI Dragon Burn is a great tool to have around if you want to make your own CDs or DVDs: you can burn different types of data, including audio content recorded in real time. On the other hand, NTI Dragon Burn can help you make copies for your disc for backup purposes.
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In October 2018, Nuance announced that it has discontinued Dragon Professional Individual for Mac and will support it for only 90 days from activation in the US or 180 days in the rest of the world. The continuous speech-to-text software was widely considered to be the gold standard for speech recognition, and Nuance continues to develop and sell the Windows versions of Dragon Home, Dragon Professional Individual, and various profession-specific solutions.
This move is a blow to professional users—such as doctors, lawyers, and law enforcement—who depended on Dragon for dictating to their Macs, but the community most significantly affected are those who can control their Macs only with their voices.
What about Apple’s built-in accessibility solutions? macOS does support voice dictation, although my experience is that it’s not even as good as dictation in iOS, much less Dragon Professional Individual. Some level of voice control of the Mac is also available via Dictation Commands, but again, it’s not as powerful as what was available from Dragon Professional Individual.
TidBITS reader Todd Scheresky is a software engineer who relies on Dragon Professional Individual for his work because he’s a quadriplegic and has no use of his arms. He has suggested several ways that Apple needs to improve macOS speech recognition to make it a viable alternative to Dragon Professional Individual:
When Scheresky complained to Apple’s accessibility team about macOS’s limitations, they suggested the Switch Control feature, which enables users to move the pointer (along with other actions) by clicking a switch. He talks about this in a video.
Unfortunately, although Switch Control would let Scheresky control a Mac using a sip-and-puff switch or a head switch, such solutions would be both far slower than voice and a literal pain in the neck. There are some better alternatives for mouse pointer positioning:
Regardless, if Apple enhanced macOS’s voice recognition in the ways Scheresky suggests, it would become significantly more useful and would give users with physical limitations significantly more control over their Macs… and their lives. If you’d like to help, Scheresky suggests submitting feature request feedback to Apple with text along the following lines (feel free to copy and paste it):
Because Nuance has discontinued Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, it is becoming difficult for disabled users to use the Mac. Please enhance macOS speech recognition to support user-added custom words, speaker-dependent continuous speech recognition that learns from user corrections to improve accuracy, and cursor positioning and mouse button events.
Thank you for your consideration!
Thanks for encouraging Apple to bring macOS’s accessibility features up to the level necessary to provide an alternative to Dragon Professional Individual for Mac. Such improvements will help both those who face physical challenges to using the Mac and those for whom dictation is a professional necessity.