Release notes for Dragon Medical 360 | Direct 2.0

New Features

Default values for auto-text fields

• Users can now finalize auto-texts and auto-text fields with default values using voice commands, hotkeys and device buttons. Auto-text fields with defaults are fields that contain text between field delimiters; say accept defaults to apply all default values in the document, say field complete to apply the default value in the field at the cursor position. Finalizing a single field automatically moves the focus to the next field.
• Users can customize the left and right field delimiter characters in the Options dialog box (Auto-text fields section).

Improvements

General

• Users can now map actions to 2 additional microphone device buttons Options dialog box, Microphone Buttons page).
• Pressing a microphone button on the Microphone Buttons page will highlight the option corresponding to the button pressed.
• Added option to pass partial microphone names to DM360 Direct via the command line –mic parameter; the first match for the partial device name will be used.
• The DM360 Direct splash screen no longer grabs the Microsoft Windows window focus after it is displayed.

Documentation

• A getting started topic has been added to the Installation and Administration guide describing mandatory and optional customization information.
• A separate Help window has been added to DM360 Direct; the DM360 Direct application help and speech recognition help are now displayed in this new window. The What You Can Say page now directs end users to the new location. Note that the help tab in the What You Can Say page will be removed in a future version.
• Search functionality has been added to the DM360 Direct help window. To search, press Ctrl+F while the focus is in the help window.
• Micosoft Word 2013 support has been added to the list of supported text controls in the documentation. [PSP00077390]
• Information has been added recommendign customizing the log file path in virtual environments. [PSP00077158].

Dictation Box

• Users can detach the Dictation Box from the DM360 Direct application UI by dragging it; drag the detached Dictation Box near the DM360 Direct application UI to re-attach it.
• While detached, the Dictation Box will remember its screen position and size and will always open where it was previously positioned on screen.

Application support

• Added support for Delphi text controls (TRichEdit, TMemo and TEdit) in applications built with Delphi2009 and higher.
• Added support for TER for .NET controls version 17 and higher.
• Added support for TER for .NET controls version 17 and higher in applications built with .NET 4.0 and higher.

Important information

• In a future DM360 Direct 2.0 service release Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 will be required; DM360 Direct will then no longer run on Microsoft Windows XP.
• In Case and Care 2.1 the Add the selected text from the target application to the Dictation Box option will be removed. [PSP00077573]

Solved issues

General

• The Dictation Box no longer applies the wrong text formatting when used in plain text mode. [PSP00075429].
• The end user documentation no longer points the user to a non-existent section. [PSP00076145, PSP00074160].
• The end user documentation is now displayed differently to end users; previously the end user help could not be displayed or would display an empty page if Internet Explorer security setting prevented local HTML pages from being loaded. [PSP00069360].
• End users are no longer prevented from seeing and editing voice commands (auto-texts and step-by-step commands) that were copied to the user level in the Nuance Management Console. [PSP00077730].
• The contents of the Dictation Box are now transferred correctly to the target text control when using the Press Ctrl+V text transfer method. [PSP00078037].
• End users can now use the ALT modifier in the Step-by-step command dialog box. [PSP00077838, PSP00077914].
• Audio data is no longer lost at the beginning of a recording session. Be aware that in TS environments this depends on the latest 360 | SpeechMagic SDK audio extension (See the Infrastructure section below). [PSP00076493]

Application support

• Improved support for the Microsoft Internet Explorer-based CKEditor text control. [PSP00078780, PSP00070647].
• Dictating into multiple Microsoft Outlook windows no longer causes DM360 Direct to stop inserting text after a while. [PSP00076226].
• The voice commands next field and previous field no longer cause the text cursor to move to the wrong position in Microsoft Word-based text controls after manual editing. [PSP00077470].

Infrastructure

Infrastructure changes in this release

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 (or higher) is now required.

• DM360 Direct requires the SpeechMagic audio extensions (client and server components) for TS environments: 360 | SpeechMagic SDK 7 R5 HF01 (17.5.10.1)
• DM360 Direct requires the PowerMic device extensions (client and server components) for TS environments: PowerMic SDK 4.2 HF01 (4.2.19.1)

• 360 | SpeechAnywhere Services 1.6, with the latest service release, is required.

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.