AI 产品解读Chrome 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)
- 目标用户
- 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
付费分析未识别到付费功能
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.
- 置信度
- 90
- 支付平台
- --
- 来源
- AI / 高
- 需要登录
- 否
- 登录理由
- 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.
发布者Nuance Communications, Inc.
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
- 电话
- +1-857-214-6311
- 地址
- 1 Wayside Rd
Burlington, MA 01803-4609
US
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Aux premiers abords, Dragon est une extension qui nous facilite la vie, mais après quelques utilisations le logiciel bug complètement. Seule la dictée vocale reste potable et le fait de changer de page ne lui plait pas vraiment : il cesse de fonctionner et nous devons le relancer depuis zéro... Il n'y a pas de mises à jour ou de nouvelles versions qui permettent à Dragon de s'améliorer concrètement non plus malgré l'idée de départ que je trouve plutôt chouette. C'est tellement dommage. Pour certains appareils, l'application ne s'ouvre même pas ! Je voudrais demander à Nuance une amélioration de cette extension, au moins pour le changement de page, s'il vous plaît.
I was taking online school. Now I can't anymore because this extension doesn't work. The only reason I am able to make this review is because I still have a little bit of use of my hand. When my condition progresses I won't be able to use chrome at all. Even with the extension turned on everything I say gets typed in a text box even when I say "show numbers". Its useless. It worked for two days and never worked since even after reinstalling. My phone has better accessiblity than this. At least when i say "show numbers" it shows numbers i can see... instead of blanking the screen to show colored number boxes then flashing back. That is an awful way to try to navigate. Take a lesson from Android on this one! There is officially no good voice commands for windows now. I guess i will cast my phone to my computer... its only good as a screen now. I'm SO glad i did not pay for my copy of Dragon... at the price it has i would have been VERY mad. It's not even as good as free voice commands on android.
doesn't work. I can't wait for someone to create a decent dictation app competitor to Dragon!
As a person with a disability, I rely on NaturallySpeaking to assist me with anything dealing with speech-to-text. In fact, I am using it to write this review. I'm not sure if the blame resides on Chrome or Nuance as far as this extension is concerned. All I know is that when I use Chrome, it doesn't place a space at the beginning of the next sentence. There are a few other things that work sometimes that won't work other times that are exclusive to when I use Chrome while I am using NaturallySpeaking. For those reasons, I cannot in good conscience give this a five-star review. Like another reviewer mentioned, I, too, have used NaturallySpeaking for well over two decades. Just over 27 years now, when it was version 1.0. I'm sure I don't have to tell anyone just how much the product has improved since those early days. I really do think that they need to figure out what is wrong with the extension. The extension in Chrome defaults to off anytime I close and reopen Chrome. Sadly, NaturallySpeaking's newest version works far better with Edge. I only know this because I decided to try it once since I haven't liked any Microsoft browser after Windows 3.1. Of course, back then, there weren't too many options. Even though Chrome's extension works poorly as it does, I refuse to use in a browser made by Microsoft. Unfortunately, because of what is now an incompatibility issue my days of having Chrome set as my default browser are now numbered.
This works well on the Microsoft software. Not so much on Chrome search, however. It does nothing. I'm removing this extension from the search engine. :-|.
I cannot overstate how bad this extension is. The Dragon software itself is already bad enough, and in the time I've been using Dragon 15 and 16, this extension itself has literally never worked.
Simply doesn't work
Doesn't work as far as I can see.
This stinking piece of S##t extension crashes constantly no matter what browser I use! I love Dragon, but I cannot use it because I cannot dictate to my online work.
Ne fonctionne tout simplement pas, ni sur Chrome, ni sur Firefox. Lamentable.