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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Just doesn't work well at all with gmail - what a pain!
After reading all the reviews I find that I too am experiencing many of the problems as those who gave only one star. I would give its navigation around the window, one star and dictating into the Gmail three stars. I sure hope they get this extension fixed soon. Click publish such
please say that again!!
Worked for about 30 minutes. My job requires me to use Chrome so now I'm basically SOL.
As a long time user of Dragon NaturallySpeaking (since 2008) I was really happy when they created this plug-in that would allow Dragon to work with Google Chrome as well as Firefox. I am currently using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 (the latest model) but it seems that this plug-in is very buggy and it only works some of the time. This can be very frustrating because I have turned off my "dictation box with unsupported applications" in my tools box. Now I have to turn it back on again because of the problems with the software. And the same is true with Firefox and even Internet Explorer. Nuance needs to try to integrate the ability to dictate into browsers at a higher quality level than it's currently performing at.
I'm using Dragon right now to prepare this review. The chrome while [web] extensionSeems to have virtually no impact on Dragon's behaviour within the browser.It does not permit you to correct text using Dragon's correction mechanism, and it brings up the dictation box unless you disable it. For some reason, dictation into chrome also seems to be more inaccurate. I have left Dragon's errors (including the lack of the space between the words extension and seems) in the review to give an accurate picture of how it is performed.
Simply doesn't work. Amateur hour
UPDATE: Intermittent at best. I have spent 350 USD updating to DNS 15 Professional, so I seriously hope this works well. First impressions are that it indeed does. Chrome Dictation runs much faster than it did for me under DNS 12. The main issues with capitalization seem resolved. I am cautiously optimistic that this time things are really going to work out.
Used to work brilliantly with gmail, but now totally capricious. Only works about 10% of the time for the past month. Sometimes now I can't even get the dictation box to work. Like everyone else I think Dragon NS 13 is a superb programme. It just won't work in web extension mode. Deeply frustrating.
This extension worked for about a day and then it went straight back to a dialog box which I am using now. Nuance needs to put a lot more effort into integrating their program and a little less and the marketing