Release Notes for Dragon Medical SpeechKit 3.4 Release 3 (.NET edition)

New in version 3.4 release 3

• The design of the speech bar and speech bar menu has been improved. [DNB-19209]
• The notification bubble on the speech bar now pulsates when a new notification is received. [DNB-19830]

Solved issues

• An irregular internal audio error no longer occurs when users with a Dragon Medical One license turn on the microphone in virtualized environments. [CAVE-4001, SOD-17532]
• An irregular System.DivideByZeroException no longer occurs after the VuiController is opened. [DNB-17458]
• A System.AccessViolationException no longer occurs when a speech recognition session is initialized. [DNB-17461]
• An issue that caused words to be cut off during dictation no longer occurs. [DNB-18035]
• An internal audio error no longer occurs when the application is launched via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and the user clicks the microphone button on the speech bar. [DNB-19027]
• The cursor position is now correct after a pause in dictation. [DNB-19877]
• The Dutch menu is now displayed correctly when the user clicks the menu icon on the speech bar. [DNB-15891]

Important information

• In partner integrations based on Dragon Medical SpeechKit (.NET edition), new users without a Nuance PowerMic Mobile license who select PowerMic Mobile from the Current Device menu are notified that they must apply for a license or select another input device. [DNB-17840]

• To display your application's end user online help in the Dragon Medical SpeechKit personalization & help window, make sure it can be loaded in an iframe. [DNB-20538]

• The size of the .NET runtime package has increased, due to changes in the underlying technology, to support future product features and compatibility. [DNB-18566]

• The VUI form focus is no longer set to the speech-enabled field when Initialize(), Open() or Synchronize() is called on the VuiController. [DNB-12643]

• VMware environments: The VMware Blast Extreme protocol is now fully supported.

• Filtering auto-texts (defining filters to deactivate auto-texts selectively) is deprecated and will no longer work.

• The set of redistributable files was changed in version 3.4 release 1. Make sure to verify that all files in the bin folder are included with your application distribution.

• Please be aware that your application must be recompiled following this upgrade.

• Dragon Medical SpeechKit 3.4 Release 3 (.NET edition) requires Dragon Medical Server 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 or 3.4.

• Dragon Medical Server 3.4 is compatible with client versions 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4.

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 must be installed on all workstations running .NET edition-based applications.

Known issues

• Customizing speech bar button backgrounds is not supported in this release. [DNB-20617]
• The application shuts down if the user unplugs a Nuance PowerMic III device and tries to use a connected Nuance PowerMic II device. [DNB-20663]

Infrastructure

Infrastructure no longer supported

• Dragon Medical SpeechKit and Dragon Medical embedded 3.4 applications do not work with version 3.0 servers.
• Version 3.0 client applications do not work with version 3.4 servers.

Infrastructure changes planned for the next release

• Dragon Medical SpeechKit and Dragon Medical embedded 3.5 applications will not work with version 3.1 and 3.2 servers.
• Version 3.1 and 3.2 client applications will not work with version 3.5 servers.

System requirements - all clients*

Remarks

• Dragon Medical SpeechKit (.NET edition) only supports Internet Explorer 10 on platforms for which Internet Explorer 11 is not made available by Microsoft.

System requirements - virtualized environments*

Supported microphones

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

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

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

*** To enable button controls for these devices, configure USB device splitting.

Remarks

• For more information on virtualized environments, see the Docs & Guidelines folder of the Nuance virtual extensions package on the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform.
• VMware Horizon View 7.3: RTAV is recommended if Nuance audio channels cannot be used.
• Citrix environments: For Nuance PowerMic button support, install the Nuance PowerMic Citrix Extension on the Citrix client.
• Microsoft RDS environments: For Nuance PowerMic button support, install the Nuance PowerMic RDS Client Extension on the Remote Desktop Client. Be aware of the following:

The extension does not need to be installed on the server/virtual desktop; the required server binaries are already included in the application folder.

The 64-bit and 32-bit versions of the Nuance PowerMic RDS Client Extension are installed together.

• 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.
• Nuance RDS Audio Extension on Windows Server 2012: Microsoft hotfix KB2802311 must be installed. For more information, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base, article 2802311. [PSP00069978]
• Nuance RDS Audio Extension: UDP transport must be disabled on Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 8.1 and 10 clients. RDP 8.1 is preinstalled on Windows 8.1 and installed by Microsoft Update on Windows 7 and 8. RDP 10 is preinstalled on Windows 10. To disable UDP transport, add the following registry value to the Remote Desktop Client:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client

Value: DisableUDPTransport = 1

• Philips SpeechMike on Linux thin clients in a Citrix environment: Session reconnect might not work. Solution: Make sure SpeechMike firmware version 2.54 or higher is installed.
• For Microsoft Windows 10 clients Citrix Receiver 4.3 or higher is required.

System requirements - edit controls*

*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 standard 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 standard 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.