Release notes for Dragon Medical Direct 2.1 Service Release 6 (2.1.106.683)

Improvements

When disconnecting from a Citrix session, while recording is active in the PowerMic Mobile app, recording now correctly stops; this prevents text being transcribed in the background. [SOD-1488]
The default button layout for PowerMic Mobile has been changed to improve usability and consistency. [SOD-2766]
Voice activation detection accuracy has been improved; this improves recognition accuracy in some cases. [SOD-2765, DNB-5182, CAVE-761]
On the log on screen, the PowerMic Mobile input device is now listed after built-in audio devices, in the Microphone menu. [SOD-3241, CAVE-828]

Important information

The version of 360 | SpeechAnywhere Services delivered with this release includes preview features for managing the vocabulary.
From 2016-01-12 Microsoft stopped support for Windows XP Embedded (see the Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Support Lifecycle policy). In line with the Nuance third-party end-of-life policy, Nuance will stop supporting Windows XP Embedded in an upcoming release of DM Direct.

Solved issues

Minimizing the DragonBar in virtual server environment deployments no longer leads to visual artifacts on the screen in some cases. [SOD-2381]
Transferring text from the Dictation Box to a full-screen Microsoft Remote Desktop session window now works consistently. [SOD-2803]
Broken links in the English and Norwegian installation and administration guides have been fixed. [SOD-2773]
The cursor position is now correctly placed in Microsoft Internet Explorer-based applications after selection voice commands. [SOD-3106, SOD-2870]
Single extra characters are no longer inserted into the text in some Microsoft Internet Explorer-based applications. [SOD-3106, SOD-2871]
DM360 Direct no longer consumes more CPU cycles then necessary during the logon process. [SOD-1904, SOD-3206]
US ONLY: Users are no longer prevented from using PowerMic Mobile as the input device for Citrix endpoints, that do not have a built-in audio device, with the Nuance Virtual Client Extension installed. [SOD-3100, CAVE-808]

Release notes for Dragon Medical 360 | Direct 2.1 Service Release 4 (2.1.104.482)

New features

Crash dump notification: When DM360 Direct shuts down unexpectedly, end users are now informed (the next time DM360 Direct starts up) that a crash report was written to the file system; they can browse for the folder to forward to their administrator or clean up the file system by deleting the crash reports. For more information on the feature and how to disable it, see the Installation and Administration Guide. [SOD-1928]
Support for the McKesson Paragon typo text control is now available. [SOD-145]
Support for the Epic 2015 application is now available. [SOD-1927, SOD-2331]

Improvements

PowerMic Mobile

PowerMic Mobile is now fully functional in virtual server deployment scenarios. The Nuance Virtual Extensions no longer need to be installed on the end point. [SOD-2323, SOD-2666]
Improved auto-pairing for PowerMic Mobile: End users no longer need to manually enter information to pair their device with DM360 Direct if they temporarily exited to the device home screen or answered a telephone call. [SOD-1338]

Application support

Improved performance of inserting dictation results into Microsoft Internet Explorer-based applications with complex UI, or many, text input fields. The interaction between these applications and DM360 Direct has been improved. [SOD-1455, SOD-2386, SOD-2118]

General

The Manage Vocabulary, Manage Auto-texts and Manage Commands menu items are now grouped together in the DragonBar menu.
Deployment documentation (including recommendations to not deploy DM360 Direct to a network file share) has been improved. [SOD-1686]

Solved issues

Dictation Box

Text containing special characters and diacritics will now transfer text properly when plain text Dictation Box mode is used. [SOD-2369]
Text transferred from the Dictation Box will no longer contain an additional trailing, new line character. [SOD-2195]
Text transferred from the Dictation Box will no longer be formatted as rich text when plain text Dictation Box mode is used. [SOD-2194]

Dictation

The voice focus anchor will no longer be released after about 15 minutes of no recording. [SOD-1868]

General

The Always use when logging on setting now works properly; users no longer need to re-enter their logon credentials. [SOD-2520]

Release notes for Dragon Medical 360 | Direct 2.1 Service Release 2 (2.1.102.392)

New features

The MSI command line installer now properly supports the built-in INSTALLDIR parameter to customize the deployment location. [SOD-212]
The MSI command line installer now provides an optional input parameter OEMSPLASHSCREEN that enables you to deploy a custom splash screen overlay. [SOD-213]

To set this parameter, pass the path to your overlay image to the MSI command line while deploying; the MSI installer copies the file to the destination location. Example: msiexec /i Standalone.msi … OEMSPLASHSCREEN="./SoD.OEM.png"

The MSI command line installer now provides an optional input parameter CONFIGTEMPLATE that enables you to deploy a configuration file prepared for your deployment, instead of passing information spread over multiple input parameters. [SOD-149]

If CONFIGTEMPLATE is passed as a parameter, all other command line parameters provided by DM360 Direct are ignored (you can still use OEMSPLASHSCREEN to deploy an overlay image in addition to the configuration file). Example: msiexec /i Standalone.msi CONFIGTEMPLATE="./SoD.exe.config"

Important information

With the introduction of the MSI installer parameter CONFIGTEMPLATE, new MSI parameters will no longer be added when adding configuration options to the configuration file. In an upcoming release, the existing DM360 Direct-specific parameters will be removed; CONFIGTEMPLATE is the preferred option to configure the deployed DM360 Direct instance.

Solved issues

For applications with a direct connection to PowerMic Mobile, end users are no longer prevented from logging on to DM360 Direct when Nuance PowerMic Mobile is selected as the recording device. [SOD-2055, SOD-2058]
Device buttons no longer stop working after repeated use. [SOD-2053, SOD-2104]
The automatic audio level adjustment no longer resets the input level to the wrong volume after recording is stopped and started again. [CAVE-632]
Starting to record is now more responsive and no longer takes more time than necessary. [SOD-2099, SOD-2202]
Starting to record no longer sometimes fails when using microphone device buttons, the user does not have to press the button again. [SOD-1942, SOD-2215]

Release notes for Dragon Medical 360 | Direct 2.1 Service Release 1 (2.1.101.370)

Solved issues

The Dictation Box no longer sometimes opens in dynamic Microsoft Internet Explorer-based applications using the CKEditor text control. [SOD-2015, SOD-2061]

Release notes for Dragon Medical 360 | Direct 2.1 (2.1.100.354)

New features

PowerMic Mobile

Users can now use a supported mobile device running the PowerMic Mobile app as an input device for DM360 Direct.
To connect a mobile device running the PowerMic Mobile app to DM360 Direct, select PowerMic Mobile as the microphone when you log on to DM360 Direct and follow the on-screen instructions.
For more information on how to hide PowerMic Mobile from the list of available microphones, see the DM360 Direct Installation and Administration Guide.

Foot pedal device support for Citrix

Foot pedal devices in Citrix environments are now supported.
For more information on how to enable foot pedal devices in Citrix environments, see the DM360 Direct Installation and Administration Guide.

Microphones

Administrators are now able to explicitly restrict the set of supported microphones to a defined list; end users will only see these defined microphones.
For command line use-cases, the microphone list is the priority list and DM360 Direct will use the first matching connected microphone from the list when no microphone device is passed via the command line.
For more information, see the DM360 Direct Installation and Administration Guide.

Multi-tenancy deployment

For command line use-cases, administrators can now override settings in the SoD.exe.config file by providing dedicated configuration files and linking to them via the new command line option "-config".
For more information, see the DM360 Direct Installation and Administration Guide.

Improvements

Application support

The EmrTerClass text control used in GE Centricity is now supported
The CKEditor text control used in Cerner Millenium 2012 and Cerner Millenium 2015 is now supported.

Step-by-step commands

User level step-by-step commands can now be assigned to hotkeys and microphone buttons; users can execute the step-by-step commands via the corresponding hotkey or microphone button.
The press hotkey step type now supports the backspace character. [SOD-1136]

Dictation Box

The Dictation Box can now provide audio feedback when it is opened in response to an error situation; enable audio feedback via the Options dialog box. [SOD-183]
The Dictation Box now opens when text that was previously transferred is recalled. [SOD-64]

Audio device handling

If no audio device is available, DM360 Direct will now display an error message in the logon screen. [SOD-56]
The logon screen will now properly display long audio device names. [SOD-31]

Speech recognition topics

Dragon-based systems: The set of available speech recognition topics has been extended.
Dragon-based systems: Speech recognition topics can now be selected by the user from a predefined list; this list is displayed in the logon screen.
For more information, see the DM360 Direct Installation and Administration Guide.

General

Dragon-based systems: Users can now access the Manage Vocabulary page via the DragonBar menu.
DM360 Direct start-up performance has been improved for some machines. [SOD-677]
The correction menu is no longer displayed outside of the visible screen. [SOD-65]
DM360 Direct now displays a warning in the logon screen if a microphone that is not recommended by Nuance is selected by a user.

Important information

To ensure DM360 Direct 2.1 functions properly, you must update your deployment to use the latest configuration file template.
Microphone input levels are automatically selected and adjusted while recording is active. DM360 Direct no longer provides support for the Audio Wizard to set up microphone input levels.
Dragon-based systems: Make sure to adjust your configuration file to include the extended supported speech recognition topics and the renamed topics (Psychology: MentalHealth, General Medicine: GeneralMedicine) only. For a complete list, see the DM360 Direct Installation and Administration Guide.
The speech recognition language must be configured using the full IETF tag from the list of supported languages and be consistent with 360 | SpeechAnywhere Services. For a complete list, see the DM360 Direct Installation and Administration Guide. [SOD-82]
The back to dictation voice command will be removed in the next version of DM360 Direct. [SOD-1266]

Solved issues

In cases where the third-party application becomes unresponsive for brief periods of time or DM360 Direct is temporarily Unable to communicate with a thir-d party application, the Dictation Box will only open if text would be lost. Additionally, communication with third-party applications has been improved to combat issues where text was not inserted into a third-party application. [SOD-1505]
Auto-text field navigation in Microsoft Internet Explorer-based applications using the CKEditor text control using hotkeys or microphone buttons now works properly and fields are highlighted. [SOD-1454]
The Dictation Box no longer opens in Microsoft Internet Explorer-based applications using the CKEditor text control. [SOD-1407]
The Dictation Box now properly detaches from and attaches to the DragonBar for machines that have the Microsoft Windows option, to show window contents while dragging, disabled. [SOD-95]
The Dictation Box now properly transfers text when recording is stopped, if configured to do so. [SOD-52]
The microphone button setting to transfer text from the Dictation Box no longer stops working after some time. [SOD-94]
The voice command undo that now properly restores text deleted by the voice command scratch that when used in Microsoft Internet Explorer-based applications using the CKEditor text control. [SOD-1008]
Saying a voice command while the window focus is in a Microsoft Internet Explorer-based application, without focusing a text control will no longer open the Dictation Box. [SOD-1424, SOD-1149]
Restoring DM360 Direct from the task bar in virtualized environments (Citrix) no longer causes the Dictation Box to be invisible if opened. [SOD-1021]
DM360 Direct no longer shuts down when transferring text from the Dictation Box to a third-party application while non-text content is stored on the clipboard. [SOD-982]
The DM360 Direct MSI installer now properly supports silent mode. [SOD-844]
When updating from older versions of DM360 Direct, the recording mode setting is no longer overwritten to the press-and-hold mode default for existing users. [SOD-73]
Replacing selected text via dictation no longer adds an additional space at the end of the newly inserted text in Microsoft Word-based applications. [SOD-63]
DM360 Direct no longer shuts down if no speech recognition topic is configured. [SOD-49]
Using the scratch that voice command in Microsoft Word documents with tables will no longer removes text from the wrong table cell. [SOD-44]

Known issues

When dictating into a maximized Microsoft Outlook email, text is sometimes scrolled out of the visible area. [SOD-1248]
When working with multiple Microsoft Word documents (or related applications such as Microsoft Outlook emails), the speech focus is not properly anchored to the specified Microsoft Word document. [SOD-1035]
When working with Microsoft Internet Explorer-based applications, the speech focus is not properly anchored to the text fields inside the web page. [SOD-782]
The configuration setting EnablePowerMicMobile cannot be overridden in the external XML configuration file. [SOD-1440]

Infrastructure

Infrastructure changes in this release

360 | SpeechAnywhere Services 2.0 or higher is required.

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 (or higher) is now required.
Virtualized environments: To use DM360 Direct in a Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, Microsoft RDS or VMware Horizon View environment, install the corresponding Nuance virtual extension (version 20.3.30.1) on the client PC and on the server/virtual desktop where DM360 Direct is installed.

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.