Release notes for Dragon Medical 360 | Direct 1.5 Service Release 5
This service release is a mandatory update for customers who use ClickOnce as their deployment technology.
From DM360 Direct 1.6 installations of Microsoft .NET 4.0 (or higher) will be mandatory on client machines. This service release introduces a verification step to the installation procedure of version 1.5 informing end users not to upgrade to version 1.6 if their client machine does not have Microsoft .NET 4.0.
Release notes for Dragon Medical 360 | Direct 1.5 Service Release 4
Improvements
Application support
- Improved interaction with your application; the Dictation Box no longer opens when switching tabs while recording is on. [PSP00075186]
- In a Citrix environment, there is no longer a GUI display overlay issue. [PSP00076215]
- DM360 Direct no longer inserts text at the wrong position when recording and correcting at the same time. [PSP00075943]
General (US only)
- LDAP authentication against an on-premise Nuance Management Server now works properly. [PSP00074483]
Performance
- Application start-up and microphone device button responsiveness have been improved in high latency Citrix environments. [PSP00076032, PSP00076031].
New features
- Press-and-hold recording mode: Recording is started when the record button on the microphone is pressed and continues as long as the button is pressed. To enable press-and-hold recording mode via the Options dialog box, open the Microphone Buttons pane and in the Record menu select Press-and-hold. Press-and-hold is an alternative to the default toggle on/off recording mode for the record button. [PSP00060508].
- Press a microphone button to apply a hotkey combination. To assign a hotkey combination to a microphone button via the Options dialog box, open the Microphone Buttons pane, select Press Hotkey as the action for a button and specify the hotkey combination. [PSP00075914]
Release notes for Dragon Medical 360 | Direct 1.5 Service Release 3
Improvements
Application support
- Text is now inserted at the correct position when dictating and editing at the same time. [PSP00073060]
- Text is now inserted at the correct position after DM360 Direct has been idle for longer periods of time. [PSP00075047]
Release notes for Dragon Medical 360 | Direct 1.5 Service Release 2
Improvements
General
- The Philips SpeechMike side-by-side assembly has been updated to the latest version released by Philips (3.2.322.16). Backward-compatibility issues with older driver versions have been solved. [PSP00074193]
Application support
- Recording a new paragraph or two new lines no longer positions the text cursor at the beginning of a text field in Internet Explorer-based applications. [PSP00074916]
Release notes for Dragon Medical 360 | Direct 1.5 Service Release 1
Improvements
General
- Step-by-step voice commands imported as DAT files in The Nuance Management Console are now properly recognized and executed. [PSP00073291]
- The end user help that is unrelated to DM360 Direct has been removed from the What You Can Say page. [PSP00073764]
Application support
- Communication between DM360 Direct and Microsoft Internet Explorer-based applications has been improved. DM360 Direct now no longer relies exclusively on the
OnFocus and OnBlur events for text controls to determine the active text control. [PSP00071310]
- When dictating into Microsoft Word documents, inserted text will be scrolled into view. [PSP00070158]
- DM360 Direct now allows administrators to disable automatic registration of the DM360 Direct Microsoft Word add-in when the application is started; the default has not been changed and, if not explicitly disabled, DM360 Direct will register the add-in when the application is started. [PSP00071466]
When disabled, DM360 Direct will not try to register the add-in and dictation at the cursor in Microsoft Word-based applications will only work if the add-in was previously registered. To disable automatic registration, edit the SoD.exe.config file to include the following configuration section:
<setting name="RegisterWordAddIn" serializeAs="String">
<value>False</value>
</setting>
- DM360 Direct now supports dictation at the cursor for the latest version of Epic Hyperspace. [PSP00074011]
Release notes for Dragon Medical 360 | Direct 1.5
New features
Select & say voice commands
Select & say introduces new commands that enable end users to navigate, select and correct text via voice. Selection commands enable users to select text or text ranges by saying the text they want to highlight; once highlighted they can correct via over-dictation, typing or selecting recognition/formatting alternatives. For more information, see the end user help.
Step-by-step voice commands
Step-by-step commands replace the personal custom command feature introduced in DM360 Direct 1.4. Step-by-step commands offer richer functionality and enable end users to create macros using simple building blocks. Existing personal custom commands will be automatically upgraded to step-by-step commands when users log on to DM360 Direct for the first time. The Manage Commands dialog box is opened from the DM360 Direct application menu.
Undo voice commands
Users can use the new undo and redo voice commands to revert changes to editor contents. How these commands behave depends on the text control's built-in undo functionality. Not all applications support multi-level undo/redo functionality.
Improvements
Text size: Increased performance of DM360 Direct in documents with a large amount of template data or dictated text.
Important information
Scratch that
The way the scratch that voice command works has been changed. Scratch that now removes sections of text as they were inserted into the application for dictated text and single words for typed text.
Solved issues
DM360 Direct 1.5 includes all improvements and fixes delivered in DM360 Direct 1.4 service releases. For more information, see DM360 Direct 1.4 release notes.
General
- The Dictation Box no longer opens when voice commands are said but only when text to be recognized is recorded. [PSP00065490]
- The spoken forms of auto-texts are now also displayed on the What Can I Say page. [PSP00071165]
- The application main window position is now correctly remembered between sessions. [PSP00071879]
Dictation
- The Dictation Box no longer opens for plain text email messages in Microsoft Outlook. [PSP00070164]
- Text is now correctly inserted into fillable fields within protected sections in a Microsoft Word document. [PSP00071576]
- Text is now correctly formatted in Microsoft Word when using built-in or custom formatting commands. [PSP000459, PSP00072614]
- New line and new paragraph voice commands now insert the correct control key sequences. [PSP00069221
Administration
- The installation guide now includes improved documentation for LDAP authentication and an issue that prevented correct authentication in some scenarios has been fixed. [PSP00070928]
Infrastructure
Infrastructure changes in this release
- VMWare Horizon View: DM360 Direct 1.5 now fully supports VMWare Horizon View deployments including a custom audio channel and device button support. For more information, see the SpeechMagic Terminal Services package.
- Microsoft Windows: DM360 Direct 1.5 now fully supports Windows 8.1.
- Text controls: DM360 Direct 1.5 now also supports TX Text Control 17, 18 and 19.
Infrastructure changes planned for the next release
End-of-life: Third party environments
Support for third party environments is only valid as long as they are supported by the corresponding vendor and might be subject to other restrictions. Please contact Nuance Technical Support for details. For more information, see the documentation delivered with the third party product and supporting Nuance documentation.
When support by the vendor has stopped, Nuance will continue support if an issue is specific to the Nuance solution, within the limitations of the vendor’s and Nuance's end-of-life policy. This means that issues that are a combination of the vendor’s component and the Nuance solution cannot be supported.