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Release Notes for Dragon Medical SpeechKit 3.2 Release 4 (Browser edition)

Solved issues

  • For custom edit controls, a line break property newlineFormat and a paragraph break property paragraphFormat have been added; the properties newlineFormatString and paragraphFormatString are now ignored. [DNB-11353]
  • Navigation between embedded fields via PowerMic buttons now works properly. [DNB-10861]
  • In Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, the cursor position is now synchronized with the HTML element's selection. [DNB-11274]
  • The new paragraph voice command now works properly. [DNB-11320]
  • If the PowerMic Web Extension installation window is closed or ignored, it will not appear again for 7 days; if the user selects Don't show me this message again, the installation window will not appear again for a year. [DNB-11343]
  • Recording no longer stops unexpectedly due to an interrupted connection to the speech recognition server. [DNB-11718]
  • PowerMic buttons now work more reliably in Google Chrome on Windows. [DNB-11528]

Important information

  • Dragon Medical SpeechKit 3.2 Release 4 (Browser edition) requires Dragon Medical Server 3.0, 3.1 or 3.2. Make sure to upgrade the server before you upgrade to this Browser edition.
  • Dragon Medical Server 3.2 is compatible with Browser editions 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2.
  • Do not change or hide Browser edition GUI elements. Changing or hiding these elements risks the stability and compatibility of the product; Nuance cannot provide support for such integrations.
  • Web browser debugging consoles or debugging proxies (for example, Fiddler) cannot be used with speech recognition. The performance impact incurred by such infrastructure leads to unreliable speech recognition.

Supported edit controls

  • All HTML <input> and <textarea> controls.
  • <div> elements that have the HTML5 contenteditable attribute set.
  • CKEditor instances.

Known issues

  • This release does not support mobile devices; including browsers (Firefox and Chrome) that do not use Silverlight.
  • iOS mobile devices do not work using any browser due to Apple limitations on third-party browsers (https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/ios/overview) and a lack of the corresponding API support, in Safari, by Apple (http://caniuse.com/#feat=stream%26feat_search=getUserMedia).
  • PowerMic buttons do not work the first time a speech-enabled page is opened after the Nuance PowerMic Extension has been updated. Refresh the page to use PowerMic buttons. [DNB-12282, DNB-12253]
  • PowerMic buttons are not handled by a speech-enabled page if the user clicks outside it or opens the personalization & help window manually. [DNB-12246, DNB-12367, DNB-10612, DNB-12181]
  • If two speech-enabled pages are open and the personalization & help window is opened from one of the pages, focus sometimes jumps to the other page when using PowerMic buttons. [DNB-11710]

Infrastructure

Infrastructure no longer supported

  • Dragon Medical SpeechKit (Browser edition) 3.2 applications do not work with any server version prior to 3.0.
  • Mozilla Firefox 44 and lower are no longer supported (see Mozilla Firefox ESR Overview: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/).
  • Google Chrome 52 and lower are no longer supported.
  • In Dragon Medical Server 3.2 all version 1.6 and 2.0 client-based applications stop working.

Infrastructure changes planned for the next release

  • In Dragon Medical Server 3.3 all version 2.1 client-based applications will stop working.
  • Google Chrome 55 and lower will no longer be supported.

System requirements*

Component Recommended Supported
Google Chrome 62 53 - 62
Mozilla Firefox** 57 45 - 57
Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows*** - 10 - 11
Microsoft Silverlight 5.1 5 - 5.1
Apple Safari on MacOS X**** - 10

** Firefox for MacOS X is only supported with an external microphone.

*** Internet Explorer is only supported with the Compatibility View and Protected Mode disabled. Additionally, some <!doctype> definitions are not supported; use <!doctype html>. Dragon Medical SpeechKit (Browser edition) only supports Internet Explorer 10 on platforms for which Internet Explorer 11 is not made available by Microsoft.

**** For more information, see the 'Known issues' section above.

System requirements - virtualized environments

Component Recommended Supported
Nuance PowerMic Extension: Server 29.2.40.0 or higher
Nuance PowerMic Extension: Client 29.2.40.0 or higher
Citrix XenApp 6.5 or higher
Citrix XenDesktop 7 7.15 or higher
Citrix Receiver: Client 4.3 or higher
VMware Horizon View 7.3 or higher
VMware Horizon Client 3.5.2 or higher
Remote Desktop Services Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2016
Remote Desktop Client Windows 10 Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10
Remote Desktop Protocol 7.0 or higher
Windows-based thin clients Windows Embedded Standard 7
Linux thin clients Fujitsu Futro IGEL (For information on supported IGEL thin clients, see: http://edocs.igel.com/index.htm#10204052.htm) Fujitsu Futro S450 (operating system version eLux RP 4.9.0) Fujitsu Futro S520, S700, S720 (operating system version eLux RP 5.1) HP t610 (operating system version eLux RP 4.4.0)

Audio configuration

In virtualized environments, hardware and software requirements depend on the audio system and configuration.

Component Audio system Configuration Nuance PowerMic Extension is required Bandwidth requirements
Citrix environments HDX audio Audio quality must be set to high (Citrix XenApp default: medium) Yes 112 kb/sec
USB redirection Full audio and button control support No 1.2 Mb/sec
VMware environments Real-Time Audio-Video (RTAV) Default Yes 400 kb/sec or higher
USB redirection Full audio and button control support No 1.4 Mb/sec
RDS environments RDS audio Default Yes Approximately 1.4 Mb/sec

Supported microphones

Audio works for all microphones listed. Support for button controls is listed below:

Component Citrix XenApp Citrix XenDesktop RDS VMware Horizon View
Nuance PowerMic II yes* yes* yes* yes*
Nuance PowerMic II with barcode scanner yes* yes* yes* yes*
Nuance PowerMic III yes* yes* yes* yes*
Philips SpeechMike Air yes** yes** yes** yes**
Philips SpeechMike Premium yes** yes** yes** yes**
Philips SpeechMike III yes** yes** yes** yes**

* To enable Nuance PowerMic controls, install the Nuance PowerMic Citrix Extension/PowerMic RDS Client Extension/PowerMic VMware Client Extension.

** To enable button controls for third-party devices, install the corresponding redistributable packages.

Remarks

  • For more information on virtualized environments, see the Docs & Guidelines folder of the Nuance virtual extensions package on the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform.
  • Citrix environments: For Nuance PowerMic button support, install the Nuance PowerMic Citrix Extension on the Citrix client and server/virtual desktop where your application is hosted.
  • VMware Horizon Client 4.3.0 or higher: Install the new 64-bit Nuance PowerMic VMware Client Extension on the VMware client.
  • For microphone button support, third-party drivers for Philips, Grundig and Olympus devices need to be provided by the device vendor and deployed both on the Citrix/RDS client and Citrix/RDS server.

*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 end-of-life and Nuance's policy. This means that issues that are a combination of the vendor’s component and the Nuance solution cannot be supported.

Dragon Medical SpeechKit product life cycle

Nuance provides support throughout the life cycle of one version and point release. Please note that Nuance will not perform problem analysis after the scheduled start of restricted maintenance. Dragon Medical Server versions released over three months after the dates stated here will not work with these client editions. For up-to-date information on these schedules, go to Nuance iSupport.

Browser edition 2.1 3.0 3.1 3.2
Restricted maintenance (scheduled start) 2016-08-28 2017-07-26 2018-02-01 2018-06-02