onsetsu / dragon-natlink-dragonfly-installation-guide

Meta Installation Guide for Dragon Natlink Dragonfly

Terminology

• Dragon
  • DPI (Dragon Professional Individual) often mitakenly set equal with DNS
• Dragonfly
• Natlink
• Unimacro
• Vocola

Step-by-step Guide

0. Install python 2.7, 32bit version(can be along python 3.x)
1. Install Dragon

• 1.1 Upgrade to 15.3

2. Install Natlink (Vocola and Unimacro are just byproducts of Natlink) according to this guide
3. The configuration part of step 2 is not comprehensible. We first need to install some python package to get the gui to run! (https://caster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation/#manual-configuration)
4. Run Configure NatLink via GUI from start menu
5. Click (re)Register NatLink
6. Close GUI and restart Dragon: Another window for natlink should appear along Dragon if everything worked out fine.
7. [User Directory] Open GUI again, configure a User Directory (for custom commands)
8. [First Custom Command] put our sample file into the directory, disable and re-enable Dragons microphone, this will make Natlink reimport all files in the User Directory. This should print 'Demo command loaded, say "demo sample one"!' in the Natlink window.
9. Say Demo Sample One to trigger the custom command: It should print Detected "demo sample one".
10. pip install dragonfly2