Dragon Professional Individual

What is Dragon Professional Individual?

The new Dragon Professional Individual, a smarter next-generation voice recognition solution enables busy professionals to complete documentation and reporting quickly and accurately on pc, so you spend less time on paperwork and more time on bottomline activities. Leveraging the latest Deep Learning technology, Dragon constantly learns and adapts to your unique voice and environmental variations – even while you're dictating – to deliver new levels of personalized accuracy and productivity. Robust transcription, powerful customization, and the ability to seamlessly sync with Dragon Anywhere's mobile dictionaries solution extend the benefits of speech recognition to meet your unique business needs whenever your work takes you.

Main features

Faster and more accurate than ever

Dragon Professional Individual, v15 expands the possibilities of speech recognition innovation with a next-generation speech engine.

Dragon brings consistent and optimal accuracy to your PC with Deep Learning technology and adaptation techniques that continually adjust to your voice or environmental variations, even when you're dictating.

Offers up to 99% speech recognition accuracy

With the new engine, get optimal accuracy for accented speakers or in noisy environments, such as in a cubicle environment. Get highly accurate speech recognition results out of the box without training required. Provides a personalized voice-based experience

Achieve more and more accurate results the more you use it

Enjoy personalized accuracy; Dragon learns the words and phrases you use most Improve accuracy with training or optional advanced analysis of existing documents and emails Performs with fast response times and minimal latency Chat at normal speeds and see the words appear on the screen almost instantly Get immediate feedback on what you say so you can check it immediately Never miss a beat on your train of thought; The dragon captures your ideas as fast as you can talk about.

Use your voice to dictate documents or insert text anywhere you normally type

Dragon removes barriers to productivity and creativity, allowing you to interact with your computer by voice. It turns your spoken thoughts into text and your voice commands into action so you don't have to worry about typing and spelling mechanics. You can easily switch between keyboard, mouse and voice so you can use the input mode you prefer for any task. Dragon not only lets you dictate up to three times faster than typing, but also allows you to make edits and apply formatting using your voice. You can select text and apply formatting, such as bold, underscore, capitalize, and more, or just speak to make the necessary changes. Smart Format Rules automatically adapt to how you want abbreviations, dates, phone numbers, and more, so you don't have to fix them every time. Dragon gives you robust voice command and control, as well as enhanced Dictation (or Full Text Control), for fully voice-driven command and editing features in many popular business applications that you use every day. Create documents such as reports, emails, forms, and notes, and back up your computer's tasks in record time. Create custom words and vocabulary.

Dragon Professional Individual easily learns acronyms, first names, and other unique or business phrases that you use frequently to capture your unique words the way you want. In addition, you can import and export your custom word lists.

Create custom voice commands to insert frequently used text and graphics

With Dragon Professional Individual, it's quick and easy to create custom voice commands. This feature allows you to enter a standard response, a signature block, a logo, a form template, or other boilerplate content, speaking a simple command for significant time savings.

Automate business processes with time-saving macros

Create macros to automate multi-step workflows or business processes through simple voice commands. For example, send an email to your sales distribution list, copy the senior management team, and print a printed copy for your files, saying something like "Send standard sales distrotion email." Transcribe your recordings from audio files.

Dragon Professional Individual supports Nuance-approved digital voice recorders and smart phones for advanced recording features, and you can automatically transcribe audio files into text on your PC. It takes advantage of all the precision improvements achieved with the most advanced speech recognition engine for fewer post-corrections. The transcription process presents a fully simplified configuration for your own voice. Because the adaptation of the acoustic and language model is automatically leveraged for the current user, no special training is required. You can also accurately transcribe the voice of another single speaker from pre-recorded audio files or podcasts. No additional training is also required to transcribe third-party speakers, so you can complete the transcript quickly and accurately. Depending on your preference, you can take notes by recording your voice on an audio device for later transcription, or you can work with the Dragon Anywhere mobile app for an immediate and professional saying.

Dragon Professional Individual lets you work the way you want to optimize your productivity while on the road.

Sync with dragon anywhere's separate Dragon Anywhere mobile solution dragon anywhere is a separate cloud-based solution that provides continuous dictation capabilities, allowing you to create and edit documents from any voice extension directly on your iOS or Android device. Adapts to your voice and terminology so you can dictate, edit, navigate, and format quickly and accurately within your document, using your own custom words, shortcuts and commands – from anywhere, anytime. You can share documents and sync custom words and commands with Dragon Professional Individual for perfect productivity whenever your work takes you. Get immediate access to your dictator, so you can spend less time behind a desk, completing administrative tasks and more time contributing to your bottom line. Easily work on popular form factors, including touch screens.

Dragon is optimized for popular form factors such as portable touchscreen PCs so you can experience new levels of documentation productivity on the go.

It's great for today's new PCs, including highly mobile devices with hybrid touch and keyboard interaction modes.

Command and control your computer by voice for added convenience and comfort

Start apps, select menu items, press keys, switch between windows, search the web, create and send emails, and more by voice if you wish.

Dragon Professional Individual gives you the flexibility to: Work hands-free if desired experience more ergonomic comfort while working on your computer

Feel less stress and tension in your Multitask body using your voice to dictate and execute commands

Simplify text-to-text playback with natural audio

Dragon's speech-to-speech capability is a natural-soundsynthesized voice that reads the text assigned to you, simplifying review and supporting new levels of multitasking. With Dragon Professional Individual, you can also listen to audio playback of your own dictation with the associated text highlighted on the screen

Choose your microphone option for freedom and flexibility

With automatic microphone detection, Dragon Professional Individual will show you which microphones are available for you to use. Because Dragon allows you to use multiple types of audio devices within the same profile, you can easily switch to another microphone while maintaining all your personalized preferences for accuracy and formatting. This feature is useful if, for example, you use a USB microphone at home, a wireless microphone at work, and the built-in microphone on your laptop when you're on the go. With Dragon Professional Individual you have the option to use: Microphones built into many of the latest laptops: you're free to dictate documents and speak commands directly on your laptop without using a wireless Bluetooth microphone headset: use a Nuance-certified Bluetooth headset microphone for excellent wireless performance and the freedom to move while working on your computer

Any other Nuance-approved microphone: see support.nuance.com/compatibility for more information.

Extending accessibility and preventing Dragon Professional Individual repetitive stress injuries supports Section 508 standards to eliminate barriers for individual workers with disabilities that limit their ability to use a keyboard and mouse. In addition, it helps prevent fatigue and repetitive strain injuries by offering a comfortable and ergonomic alternative to the keyboard and mouse. Even easier to get started and master Dragon Professional Individual makes it easy to get speech recognition and become proficient quickly with regular use. It's also simple to explore more advanced features that can increase your productivity even more. Dragon offers multiple ways to accelerate your domain and get the most out of your speech recognition investment – including offering productivity tips and helping you discover dragon's advanced features. You can take advantage: Useful tutorials make it easy to become productive right away

Intuitive design provides easy access to a rich and powerful feature set for ever-increasing productivity gains Contextual guidance tailored to your use will help you maximize the dragon's power and complete documentation more efficiently than ever before.

System requirements

RAM: Minimum 4 GB CPU:

Intel dual core processor or AMD equivalent.

Faster processors produce faster performance Free disk free space: 4 GB Supported operating systems: Windows 7, 8.1, 10 (32 and 64 bits);

Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 Internet Explorer 11 or higher or the current version of Chrome or Firefox A sound card that supports 16-bit recording A DVD-ROM drive for installation Built-in microphone or microphone approved by Nuance. See support.nuance.com/compatibility for more information An Internet connection for automatic product activation (a quick anonymous process) and access to OBS Online Help: Does not support dictation in Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems. For EMR support, use Dragon Medical Practice Edition.