Microsoft Office 365 offers two versions – Online Version and Offline Version.
Online versions of the Microsoft Office applications (such as Word, Outlook and Excel) through a web browser,Offline versions enables you to download desktop versions of the Office applications.
Nuance also sells well-known personal speech-recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which is invaluable to many people with a wide range of physical disabilities. Dragon NaturallySpeaking software is a speech recognition program that allows the user to speak into a microphone on a computer with the software translating the spoken words into text in a text program. With a software program such as this, typing isn’t necessary and the user can do away with a keyboard. Dragon Naturally Speaking Dragon naturally speaking software can helps you get more done on your PC by voice. Dictate documents, send email, search the Web, and more. It should be a highly recommended product for everyone that wants to increase their productivity. Pros: I have used Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition software for several years, from version 12 to the current version 15 for PC.Anyone vaguely familiar with this type of software may be used to clunky products that struggle to recognize simple words, let alone sentences and so on.
Here is a detailed test of Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 11.5 software. Here's a link to an updated test of version 12.5 for.
Dragon Premium
Offline version is suitable for all functions of Dragon Naturally Speaking.
The following Nuance Desktop products support dictation only when running Office 365 Online (Online Version):
Dragon Naturally Speaking Speech Recognition Software Version 11
Dragon Professional Individual
Dragon Legal Individual
Dragon Professional Group
Dragon Legal Group
Note: Full Text Control and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are not supported when running Office 365 Online.
The following Nuance Desktop products are not supported when running Office 365 Online:
Dragon Naturallyspeaking Speech Recognition Software
Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 13 and earlier
PDF Converter Professional
OmniPage
PaperPort
Note: Nuance Desktop products may have application add-ins (such as toolbar buttons) that are typically enabled in Microsoft Office desktop applications to improve the experience. When running Microsoft Office Online, these application add-ins will not be enabled. Additionally, using Dragon to dictate into Office Online applications may require the use of the Dragon Dictation Box.
What Is Dragon Speech Recognition Software
To take advantage of all the features of Nuance Desktop products, we recommend using a local installation of Microsoft Office. Certain subscription plans to Microsoft Office 365 include the local desktop version of Microsoft Office