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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Keeps crashing!
What is that Nuance doing about it? Why do they not invest in a better plugin? Even worse in Firefox - there it does not drop off all the time, but I het messages all the time that the extension is unsafe.
Constantly crashing making dictation into chrome unbelievably frustrating.
This has never worked! Uninstalled and reinstalled. Disabled and enabled. Abysmal doesn't even work with explorer! If I could give it no stars I would.
In desparate need of an update.
It works when it works... Nobody in fact knows when this works and when it doesn't work. Some days it works perfectly even if I switch brother tabs, other days it doesn't work even if you switch one tab. From what I read, Dragon support has been useless and the software itself is not very cheap, even though the recognition is quite excellent.
I can't get it to work. when i open chrome, it tells me that the extension has been disabled but i can't find an option to enable it - I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it and it still doesn't work.
Like all the other users above, the extension from Dragon crashes all the time, freezes and makes dictation miserable. NUANCE software should work with CHROME to fix this!I do not understand why they do not. FIREFOX worked well with Dragon until they did a major update a year or so ago and how that does not work either.What can Google and Nuance ansd FIRE FOX be thinking?
I have had Dragon for two years and recently upgraded to Windows 10 and Dragon 15. It has been awful. My old version on Windows 7/Dragon 13 worked pretty well and I love Dragon, but the new upgrade has a lot of bugs. I have to restart Dragon/chrome extension 15 to 20 times a day.Most of my work is through email on gmail. I have been on the phone with tech support multiple times and they really can't offer any help. They said they get a lot of calls for this issue. Out of frustration I searched for alternatives to Dragon for chrome and found the chrome extension Lip Surf. I highly recommend lip surf as a hands-free option for chrome. There is a free version and a premium version ( about 70 bucks a year).
Ich benutze es täglich und täglich kann ich mich darüber ärgern, weil es nicht richtig funktioniert. Ich würde mir mal ein funktionierendes Update wünschen