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If Dragon is unable to hear you speak, try these steps to solve the problem. Be aware that older devices, such as analog devices with two 1/8 inch jacks, are likely to cause more audio problems than an internal or USB device.The audio quality of the built-in Bluetooth receiver is too low. To use a Bluetooth audio device, you must have a USB adapter (dongle).

USB devices must be plugged directly into your computer.

Nuance encourages users to dictate using the internal microphone where possible.

All iMac and MacBook computers have excellent built-in microphones.

If your microphone is not on this list, Nuance cannot guarantee that it will work with Dragon for Mac. I would like to add that before I solved the problem physically, I tried resetting PRAM and SMC, checked the mic on another boot drive, on a Windows 7 Boot Camp partition, obviously all to no avail.Troubleshooting audio and recognition Supported DevicesĪ complete list of Nuance-supported devices is available at. The second time I got it just right and it works like new. After my first try the sounds were much better yet still muffled.

I also used canned air and sprayed it directly on the microphone after poking with the needle.īefore cleaning, all the mic recorded were hand claps, key clicking, direct tapping on the case in the mic area and similar. Just be careful not to damage the electronics under the casing. I don't know if it's the best, safest or most effective way to do it (but quite possibly it might be the only way without disassembling the whole unit) but I used a fine needle to poke every single hole a few times and it helped greatly. I have a white unibody MacBook (mid 2010) and the microphone area has the same tiny holes as the 13" unibody MacBook Pro the problem is that dust builds up in them (and it can be fairly easily seen on a white laptop), all you have to do for your mic to work properly again is just clean them.