AI product readChrome companion extension for Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software, bridging Dragon's voice command capabilities to the Chrome browser via native messaging
Dragon NaturallySpeaking's built-in browser support cannot directly interact with modern web pages in Chrome. This extension enables Dragon users to use voice commands (clicking elements by name, dictating/editing text) within Chrome, including support for Google Docs and specialized web applications.
1) User installs Dragon NaturallySpeaking desktop software (v13+) and the Chrome extension. 2) The extension injects content scripts into all web pages. 3) When Dragon is running, the extension's background service worker connects to Dragon via Chrome native messaging (com.nuance.dgnria). 4) Voice commands spoken to Dragon are relayed through the native messaging host to the extension, which then parses the DOM, identifies clickable elements and editable fields, and executes the requested actions (click, dictate, edit) on the page.
Voice-activated clicking of web page elements by name (e.g. 'Click Contact')Enhanced dictation and text editing in web pagesGoogle Docs voice integration (direct and indirect modes)DOM tracking and automation for interactive web elementsShadow DOM support for modern web componentsSpecialized support for medical software (Meditech, Onco)
- Target users
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking users (version 13+) who browse the web with Chrome / Professionals requiring hands-free web navigation and text input / Medical professionals using Dragon with web-based clinical applications
- Cannot inspect the native messaging host (com.nuance.dgnria) code or Dragon desktop application to verify full feature requirements
- Cannot confirm whether Dragon NaturallySpeaking itself requires a Nuance account or activation key beyond the initial software purchase
MonetizationNo paid features detected
The extension itself contains no payment logic, subscription checks, premium feature gating, billing APIs, or upgrade UI. Searches for premium, subscription, license, upgrade, payment, and purchase returned zero matches. Dragon NaturallySpeaking itself is a paid desktop product, but the extension does not gate or manage those paid features — it is a free companion that bridges Dragon to Chrome.
- Confidence
- 90
- Payment platform
- --
- Source
- AI / High
- Login required
- No
- Reason
- The extension is a local bridge between Chrome and the Dragon NaturallySpeaking desktop application. It communicates via Chrome's native messaging API (chrome.runtime.connectNative('com.nuance.dgnria')) — no login UI, no authentication flow, no account creation is implemented in the extension itself. The keyword hits for 'login' and 'auth' are all false positives from @author comments and commented-out debug logging strings.
PublisherNuance Communications, Inc.
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
- Phone
- +1-857-214-6311
- Address
- 1 Wayside Rd
Burlington, MA 01803-4609
US
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Horrible. Doesn't work.
Well, doesn't look like anyone is reading these reviews from Dragon over the past several years. I keep getting a message that the plug-in has been disabled,even though I haven't made any changes. It works almost exactly half the time to dictate in Outlook for Chrome, which is one of the main places I need to use it. Really frustrating that no one at nuance seems to be paying attention to this. Review from 2020- Have never been able to get it to work- I rely on Dragon on my work computer and love it, it's too bad this extension is so terrible
Over two years since the extension was announced, it still doesn't work. And the reviews above show that Dragon has known this but nothing has been done. (It's interesting also that I have found it impossible to mark the many critical reviews as helpful) Yes one can can paste in materials from Dragon Pad. But that is slow and clunky. Why hasn't this been put right? It seems a straightforward, and increasingly inexcusable, software support failure. AS MANY OTHERS HAVE SAID.
Dragon needs to do SOMETHING about this!! HORRIBLE & faulty!
when working and if you speak very slowly and clearly it is good. But the number of times it stops working, crashes other applications, and otherwise interferes with productivity makes it a questionable utility.
This extensive, it is certainly a disappointment. Reading the reviews is hard to add anything that is not already been said. Given my investment in this product it is certainly a deep disappointment and one would expect Nuance to respond.
Every problem expressed in all the previous comments dating back to 2016 is still true. The extensions do nothing once in a great while it will work but only for about 3 to 5 minutes at a time. If I want to use Google chrome to let say send a message from my Gmail account; I have to open up a Word document and copy and paste; which is what I am doing right now. It’s worked fine on every other browser but Chorme, I got Dragon because I’m an individual with a disability. But these issue pretty much renders Chorme useless to me. My electronic health record system just updated from explorer to Chrome so now I either use explorer or get an new EHR system. This is so frustrating! So here we are in 2020 and there hasn’t been any attempts to correct this issue or create a better extension to make things more accessible to individuals with disabilities like myself.
it is absolutely brilliant I can't think of anything better. It does what I tell it to do fantastic 5 stars
DRAGON SHOULD BE RENAMED I HAVE USED IT IN THE PAST WITH MEDIOCRE SUCCESS NOW IT IS CLOSE TO NONE. EVERY TIME THAT I TALK TO TECHNICAL, THEY FIND A FANTASY PROBLEM WHICH THE Y CHARGE ABOUT 200 BUCKS FOR WITHOUT RESULT. THE LAST BS WAS THAT IT WAS THE MIKE SO I BORROWED A DRAGON MIKE FROM A FRIEND THAT WORKED WELL THE 1ST TIME. TODAY IS 2ND ATTEMPT---- IT'S A NO GO PRODUCT. WORKS IN THE MICROPHONE TEST BUT WILL NOT TURN ON. I HOPE SOME ATTORNEY FILES A CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT., W
It seems to work fairly well when it works, but it frequently and sporadically becomes disabled on its own so I am constantly having to delete the extension and re-install it. Once I do this, I have to back out of everything and start fresh again or the extension will not work at all or will show the dictation box seems to only work half the time. I have to mess with this reinstalling process of the extension at least weekly and at times up to once every day, even after the latest update. This is very frustrating and I would expect more from a company like Nuance and a product as advanced as Dragon dictation software. I have seen this complaint so commonly in the review section it is completely baffling to me why Nuance does not completely rewrite the extension, or at least fix or update the one already existing.