Issues with using Dragon Professional and Inspiration

Issues with using Dragon Professional and Inspiration

Issues with using Dragon Professional and Inspiration

Inspiration 10 and Inspiration 11 have been tested and should work with Dragon Professional 15 and Dragon Professional 16 without issue.

If you are having problems with using specific Dragon commands to control and use Inspiration e.g. using the RapidFire tool, this can occur after an update of Windows.

How to solve this issue

Please follow this advice from Nuance, the publisher of Dragon Professional to resolve this issue. 
  1. Close Dragon
  2. Navigate to the following folder path: C:\Users\"Your User Name"\Appdata\Roaming\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking16
  3. Right-click the "nsuser" file and click "Rename."
  4. Rename the file to nsuser.old
  5. Restart the computer

The Dragon Command Pack add-on


The Dragon Command Pack add-on for Inspiration makes it super easy for users of Dragon Professional to use speech commands to create and edit visual diagrams and outlines with ease. With this solution, users of Dragon Professional can control Inspiration and compose text using natural speech commands, rather than having to remember specific keyboard commands.

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