Nuance Dragon Professional Individual 15

Nuance Dragon Professional Individual 15
In addition to the improvements made to the speech recognition engine in Dragon 5, Nuance has enhanced Dragon's overall performance. Nuance says Dragon has "up to 99% recognition accuracy," with advances in accuracy of either 15 or 24 percent (the company has quoted both of these figures). Although "up to" covers a large range of outcomes, this Dragon version does seem more precise than version 5.

This version of Dragon, according to Nuance, uses "deep learning" to increase accuracy. Reading about this technology gives the impression that it is a more advanced version of how Dragon already developed speech models for every user. In my testing, I made a fresh profile, and it appeared that Dragon was more effective right out of the box, with the barest amount of voice training, than with earlier iterations. Even while it isn't and probably never will be perfect, it appears to improve yearly.

I've been using Dragon 6 for a while now, and I'm impressed with how accurate it is. I would be hard pushed to identify a double-digit percentage improvement, but I do notice a decrease in the number of minor words that need correction, such as prepositions, adverbs, or articles. Although it might not seem like much, if you frequently dictate, you will learn that correcting such minor errors takes just as much time as other corrections.