PowerMic Mobile

The dragon component isn’t the worst, however, the speech recognition is substantially worse than the Power Mics. DAX Copilot is an absolute joke. The app crashes & closes out during visits that are as short as 10 minutes. The app records a portion, but then will not create a transcription because it cannot “upload”. Internet connection is working great, so that doesn’t explain the issue. Although DAX is helpful for writing passable notes, I strongly recommend against relying on this app. It will fail you time and again.

I used to love this app, but now it has become my enemy. It requires me to tie up two devices and to continually remove my hands from the keyboard to use my phone controls for dictation, and my hands on the keyboard and mouse or touchpad to really work with the document and edit things. and because my work phone on which the software is installed has a one minute lockout, I spend way too much time entering logins and password passwords and various biometric identities and not enough time actually dictating or typing. I am much happier with the high-quality microphone that I can attach to my computer, aim in my direction, and that does not tie up anything else and allows me to use my phone for music while I am dictating and I'm a lot faster when I can keep my hands on the keyboard and not going back-and-forth to the phone. I wouldn't mind if nuance were not simultaneously deprecating support for external microphones and power mics.

The app seems to work well. I haven’t had issues with crashes as others have. However, the voice recognition has gotten really bad. Whether I use the app or the handheld remote, it never gets the first few words of the sentence right. It has a lot of trouble with small words and dictates words I don’t say. Dictation software isn’t particularly useful if the fidelity is so low. Creates a lot of extra work just to make it intelligible.