Now I'm actually diving into Dragon and making some animations have the notion that the model is breathing. Katanamaru's own advice on the Dragon download comment section helped out significantly.
I remember learning Dragon back in 05. I had printed out the entire tutorial and it ended up being a fairly thick packet. Dragon is god-awful. If I were to get back into animating I'd much rather use the other options.
It's efficient enough once you figure it out. Though personally, I find myself agreeing that there's better software because some of the stuff you have to do to make things work is just....Aye Cavaulda.