--- title: Dragon Speech Recognition Software Reviews meta_title: 'Dragon Speech Recognition Software Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 54 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Dragon Speech Recognition Software works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.9 review_count: 54 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Dragon Speech Recognition Software Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Transcription Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/transcription) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 54 ## About Dragon Speech Recognition Software Nuance is a leading provider of speech, imaging and customer interaction solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance۪s proven applications and professional services. ## Dragon Speech Recognition Software Reviews ### 1. It helps me finish notes faster and allows me to use less abbreviations. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taylor Z. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** It helps with making notes more complete and improves efficiency. Without Dragon I would be typing up notes way longer and probably get a work-hour violation without it. It is truly a game-changer. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I don't like that it doesn't recognize certain words and doesn't you to spell out names or words when it is unable to recognize the word. I also wish we were given the handheld dragon speakers for home too. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving the problem of doctors using too many abbreviations that can be confusing for other teams and doctor, like myself, but most importantly it can be confusing for the patient. Dragon solves this and improves efficiency. ### 2. Correctly typing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akram M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Easy to use, Dictation to typing is very good **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** It is too expensive. There is little or no support. Dragon 13, did not work and I could not get any support **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to dictate my letters, emails legal documents ### 3. Dragon Speech Recognition Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Judiciary | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I have been using Dragon for the past two years. It has helped me to become more productive at work. With the Dragon software, I transcribe more audio hours per week compared to typing on a qwerty keyboard. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** As someone with a Caribbean accent, I had to train the Dragon software to recognise my pronunciation of many words. Training the software took a little time; however, it was worth it. Dragon now recognises my pronunciation perfectly, and this has resulted in greater accuracy. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a voice writer, I use Dragon Naturally Speaking together with another program daily. I transcribe all court records using this software and my work has become quick and easy. ### 4. Save time and effort with speech recognition software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hedley G. | Consultant rheumatologist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I am a slow typist, and this software is really fast. I can dictate into emails, I am dictating into this program right now, I do all my letters (and I do a lot of them) and it saves me time and money. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Not much. It sometimes makes mistakes, and there are some mistakes that it repeats, and I find this annoying. Thankfully they are not common. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has saved me well over $1 million over the last 20 years, in secretarial wages. It enables me to do letters in real-time on the spot, and therefore is incredibly efficient. ### 5. Dragon Speech Recognition Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Wayne L. | Managing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** The simplicity and intuitive aspect of Dragon Speech Recognition Software. It is very easy to learn. For a period of time, I didn't need to use the software and when I started using it again, it was like "riding a bike" i.e., you don't forget! **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Not really a "dislike" but rather, Google now offers "Google Voice" which essentially does what Dragon Speech Recognition Software does. However, I've found that Google Voice does not have as many voice commands as Dragon and it is less reliable than Dragon. So I would say - given Google Voice is free - the downside of Dragon is that you have to pay for it. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** You can try Google Voice and Dragon. Yes, Dragon costs more but it may be worth it to you! **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can dictate what I would like typed. I don't need to hand type in the text. ### 6. 15 years and still going strong. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mr Peter B. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I could not live my professional life without Dragon Dictate. I use it every day. In every way. The fact that I've used every version since about version 3.0 tells you something. I love how I can be creative, and correct things with my voice only. When I first started I used to make an outline of a notepad and then dictate to it. Now I often use the DragonPad for the First Draft then I transpose it into the app or software that I'm using. That way I get to review what I write, and make sense. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** There are only two things that I don't like about Dragon: 1. I annoy people when I talk to myself in an open plan office. 2. It does not read my mind. Imagine if I didn't have to speak and it typed! Amazing. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I save hours in every day dictating rather than typing. The only problem I've found is that it can be a little hungry on RAM – but that is not generally an issue with my latest PC and laptop. ### 7. Not Mac friendly! **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Digby F. | partner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** You can't use it on macs so although it's ok it's not something I'll continue with **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Not Mac friendly. The dragon anywhere for phones is ok but not practical **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** None ### 8. Best product on the market, but that doesn't say much **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Ability to edit text and have basic interaction with elements on the screen **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Dragon has not been updated for modern applications. It does not work smoothly or navigate well. That being said, I have yet to find something better. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Translate text to speed since I have tendinitis in my hands to reduce stress on them. ### 9. Looking to see what Alternative for Dragon there are out there **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jordan G. | SEO Guru- Getting your site traffic, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** the accuracy keeps getting better with each version **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I find that it's hard to do formatting with the commands, which I forget all the time **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I have a long report or document to produce its a time saver ### 10. The worst software we have used in 20 years **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark T. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Nothing it just crashes and never works. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** This software has never worked right from day one. You can’t update it or figure out a reasonable fix. Also their support is horrible you go to their website and they are hiding a good way to call them. There ticketing system is a joke and it’s almost like once you purchase the software they don’t even care. This software has never worked right from day one. You can’t update it or figure out a reasonable fix. Also their support is horrible you go to their website and they are hiding a good way to call them. Their ticketing system is a joke and it’s almost like once you purchase the software they don’t even care. In 20 years of working in technology I have never seen software like this. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** Don’t buy it **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing it never works. ### 11. Using Nuance Dragon in Word and Outlook **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alick M. | Writer of medico-legal reports, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Sophistication in adapting to voices and accents. Website trains users carefully. Customer support workers are patient and thorough. Program can easily be trained to learn unique spellings and new words. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Excessive reminders to check documents for new words and phrases. That's time consuming. Occasional glitches in collaborating with Outlook. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can compose documents more quickly. I can think more deeply while composing documents as I'm not distraed by the effort needed to key things in. ### 12. Saved by the Dragon **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alan S. | Managing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Convenience and speed for a poor typist (carpal tunnel problem) **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Some combinations of dictated text and commands can confuse the system. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** This review is being written using Dragon naturally speaking speech recognition software. I have been using this program for a number of years. I have found it to be an invaluable aid in the creation of letters, reports, and even any email response that is longer than a simple paragraph. It is of course not perfect but, on the whole, there are fewer errors than would occur due to typing errors. Because I used for a number of applications across both the Mac and Windows systems, my typical mode of operation is to dictate a simple Word document and then copy and paste to the desired location. ### 13. Beware of Scam/Unethical Business Practices **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** The product itself, when functioning properly, is great. It's user friendly and has pragmatic features. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** When the product isn't working, you are totally out of luck with customer service and support. What good is a product that you pay for but can't use? **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** Do not buy if you have any concerns about your hardware surviving the term of the subscription. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** If your hardware fails mid-subscription, and you replace the computer, Dragon support literally tells you that they won't help you. And they are aggressively rude and snarky about it. ### 14. Abosulety Horrible will crash your computer **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** At first it worked well I had to do a few reboots three calls to customer service after 30 days total chaos kept crashing my computer, no one would help me afterwards in customer service and our VP of Service (IT) told me to stop using and uninstall he was worried about our server. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** It kept crashing my computer and I couldn't even use my number key pad on keyboard. It worked well kinda of at first then became a nightmare. Our VP of Professional Services said to uninstall because it was so bad. Ironically it only got worse after trial period ended. Our VP of Service bought it as well same experience. Short story do not buy. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** Don't buy **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** No help from their overseas call center. ### 15. Increased working speed and convenience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** This softwares inbuild increased adaptations works excellently, It will run in the background and be rapidly available which is really good for me. My working speed is vastly improved and transcribing time is halved. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Becoming accustomed to the method of speaking is difficult, but the software supports this with read tutorials and frequent reminders of potential alternatives when the keyboard id used. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** everyone can benefit from this software however it will particularly support those in heavy admin roles or in need of assistive technology **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I found I need far less spelling or editing since using this software. As a side benefit, I have vastly reduced my writing time. ### 16. Great medical speech recognition **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** With Dragon, you are able to use voice commands to insert templates into documentation. This is great for EMRs where you do not have access to phrases with keystrokes. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Dragon is hard to train at times and I have had problems in the past getting Dragon to learn from my speech pattern **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dragon increases productivity of charting as my dictation is quicker than my typing ### 17. I love this software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** This software is incredible. I love how intuitive it is and how smoothly it works. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Everyonce in a while I have an issue with a word or phase but it's easily corrected. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** This software makes my job so easy. I love using it and it's so fast and intuitive. ### 18. Servicable but not incredibly accurate **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** it's great to dictate text and watch it appear onscreen hands-free. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Despite "training" Dragon for quite some time it's not yet as accurate as I'd like. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** By all means buy Dragon speech recognition software if you need to dictate text. Just be aware thataccuracy seems to tap out at about 85% and that customer service is almost non-existent. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Dragon to simplify the process of drafting long documents and reduce strain on my wrists. Using Dragon has made it possible for me to be far more productive in some cases. ### 19. Dragon software is really amazing! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tifani F. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2018 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I caption phone calls for the hearing impaired and we use Dragon. It works very well most of the time, once you've "trained" it to recognize the way you say things. Simple interface, and can be used in conjunction with any sort of work processing software, I believe. Wonderful product! **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Occasionally it will "forget" the way I'm saying a word and print out something different and I have to "re-train" it. And there are some words (mostly disfluencies) that it won't pick up at all. Just takes a little working with it. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** Very easy to use. Would recommend to anyone for doing papers, writing articles or novels, people who have arthritis or other difficulties with typing, etc. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** My company uses the software to caption phone calls so that the deaf and hearing impaired community can have the opportunity to communicate without a translator making their calls for them. I think this is a wonderful invention. ### 20. Easy way to document! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan L. | Registered Nurse, Hospital & Health Care, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Ease of use to document in the health care setting. While typing can be very easy, it is much more convenient to use Dragon to dictate progress notes! I cannot imagine it to be more simpler to use. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I think for the most part, Dragon speech recognition is accurate. I only have had minimal issues with some words and abbreviations but I'm sure those things will be sorted out and will get better with time. Cost was really the only issue because my experience with it through my work was as a trial. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** If your company provides, definitely take advantage of it. It might seem weird at first but its quick to get a hold of and becomes very easy to use. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Productivity and time management. It is much easier to dictate than typing when it gets so busy. I also work a lot with my hands so I can be writing other things or taking notes while dictating other things. ### 21. Dragon over typing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rosa H. | Communications Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I like how easy and fast it is to use Dragon when needing to make memos or long papers. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** If you dont enunciate clearly mistakes will come out. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** Take your time and enuciate well. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using dragon to achieve 96% accuracy ### 22. Smart Software **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I like that the Dragon software is very smart and eventually adapts to my personal writing / speaking style. I am happy with its usage for my duties as a physical therapist for daily notes and initial evaluations / progress notes. I like that I can immediately see what I am writing vs just speaking into a voice recorder with no visual feedback. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** It seems to be expensive for companies to add users to the system, and takes incr time for training, so our PRN staff are unable to have their own profiles. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have seen improvements in daily productivity due to using Dragon vs other voice recording measures. It saves on the need to hire transcriptionist. ### 23. Teaching the software can feel like being a parent. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim S. | Independent Writer and Proofreader, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2017 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** The interface for Nuance's dictation software is simple and it is very easy to get to grips with the software and how to use it. Creating a profile for your language preference and going through voice training helps the system to learn how you pronounce words and is accurate for the majority of the time allowing you to be more productive. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I am using Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, version 6. The number of applications that the software works well with is pretty small. Nuance's main page states boldly that it the software is great for writing documents, working in spreadsheets, creating emails and surfing the web. It isn't until you get the manual that you discover just which programs it works well with, and Microsofts Excel and Powerpoint aren't two of them. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** As with any piece of software, there is a learning curve. The difference here is that using it is simple and straight-forward and the learning curve primarily comes from the software becoming familiar with your writing styles. It also depends on what operating system you are using the Dragon software. Windows based machines have had a versatile interaction with the dictation software for many years and it works with many more programs than it does on Mac systems. So if you are using a Macbook then you need to have the latest version of Nuance's dictation software to have anything near a decent experience. When you choose to buy the software, make sure you also download a copy of the user manual which can be found in the Resource Library as this will provide a valuable aid in how to improve your use of the software and methods of navigating the many commands that it has. While the software does have an inbuilt command list which can be displayed on the screen, there are things in the user guide that make using the software easier and explain what those functions do. The Mac's version of the software does glitch from time to time. Sometimes this is down to pronunciation, and other times the cursor jumps to a different location within the document. According to Nuance, this will happen in programs that don't support both text and voice entry. However, it does also happen in the 'supported' applications as well. Overall, you have to be patient while it learns from you and supplying it other documents that you have produced will aid in its learning. Like anything that learns, it will make mistakes (as do we) but its accuracy does increase with each time that you use it. The initial price tag of £249.99 (Oct-2017) seems high at first but if you make the effort to set up the profile and train the software to your way of writing then the amount of time that can be saved compared to typing is incalcuable. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a writer and using Speech recognition software allows me to write that much faster than if I am typing. I also find that sometimes I like to pace when I am thinking and speaking through an idea and not being tied to a keyboard allows me to do this regardless of whether I am using a corded or cordless headset. Another advantage is that I can dictate parts of my book into any recording app on any phone and then have the software listen and convert those recordings to my documents, saving time in having to either listen and repeat them myself or having to type them up at a later date. Overall, I find that I am producing more work efficiently and that it helps me to think proactively about the language I need to use when writing. ### 24. Good Software, but you need to spend time training your dragon **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul H. | Psychologist, Mental Health Care, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Software makes writing lengthy reports easier. With practice, I could maneuver around the screen to open, close, and use features without my mouse. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** When the software is turned on, it takes over the / * - and + buttons on my 10-key pad. Those buttons have specific functions and prevent me from using those characters in my Word document. It takes a lot of training to use all of the bells and whistles that comes with the software. I haven't yet found the time to go through the necessary training. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** The software seems to get better with each iteration. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Writing lengthy reports. Getting reports written quickly, communicating with the folks I've got contracts with. ### 25. Very helpful for a busy work environment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** It’s very accurate at hearing, recognizing, and even learning medical vocabulary. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Sometimes it cute out the first word if I begin speaking too quickly. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dragon has made medical record charting much faster and more thorough with being able to speak text directly into the document. Charts are more detailed. You can be more comprehensive in less time with dictation recognition. ### 26. Our physicians were pleased with Dragon **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Heather Lowenstein U. | Operations Manager, Hospital & Health Care, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Dragon was very easy to implement in our office. It made transcribing much easier freeing up more time for physicians to see patients **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I am not aware of any dislikes of Dragon **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** This was a very easy implementation in our office. The physicians adapted quickly. Helped free up time spent speaking into recorders to have someone else transcribe. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Freeing up more time to spend with patients, not having to pay someone to transcribe or the delay in waiting for a transcriptionist ### 27. Dragon User **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** melissa w. | Ohio, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** That it captions almost every word in the dictionary and if it do not recognize you can add the word to remember in the data during that call. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** It revoices some of the words wrong. U have to insert or type them in which takes more time to do **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** I highly recommemd this software for the deaf or hard of hearing to make and receive phone calls **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving the words it cannot or will not caption. I am keeping a list of those words. Benefits i realized is helps people who are hard of hearing to take phone calls and stay connected to the outside world. ### 28. Dragon Medical 10.1 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christine B. | Clinical Assistant, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** This software is great because it quickly recognizes spoken words and translates them to text in seconds without a hiccup. Compatible with our Desktop Mics and easy to use. I like the ability to edit before pasting the text into patient reports. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** The software could do better with recognizing a wider range of words, but I think with each new update this software will get better. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** Make sure you have a compatible Mic to use with the software. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using this software to write patient care notes very quickly is crucial to working up a patient in the Emergency setting. ### 29. Dragon naturally speaking 13 premium rocks! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mental Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2017 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I love the convenience of text to type. I wish it had more editing features. I love that it remembers names and phrases if you program it that way. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Takes up a lot of room on the computer, slows it down, and it's editing features are not terrific. I think there was some market for this for people with learning disabilities and hand control tremors. My neurologist and my assistive technology person recommended this program for me. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** The business problem I have solved is faster productivity. Without dragon, I can only type 15 to 20 words a minute. In one year of using the Dragon program I can produce 60 words a minute. The editing is an issue, but it's still an improvement ### 30. Works well **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** After talking very monotone the product works amazing for captioning services **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Sometimes words like uh or nuh uh do not come out **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps those with hearing problems ### 31. Useful tool for documenting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I like that I am able to dictate with this tool, which helps me to save time in my patient care documentation. It is especially helpful for documenting long histories. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Sometimes the speech recognition is not as accurate as I would like it to be. There are some tools to help train the system, but it is not perfect, so you still have to edit some. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** I highly recommend this tool and use it in my daily work. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are making dictation and care documentation more efficient snd timely, which also helps with provider burnout and workload. ### 32. This works as Good as you let it. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** There are many ways to customize it, tailor it to work the way you want it too, if you want to make it pick up the way you speak on multiple ways, etc.. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Sometimes this program doesn't forgive you for making mistakes. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** If you're looking for this program, just use it! Don't doubt it or look other places, it's great. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Captioning phone calls in an easier more accurate way! ### 33. I speak much faster than I type **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** DragonDictate allows me to blast through documentation that would otherwise take me hours to type. It's accuracy is fairly good, but becomes better when you work through a training session with the product. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** It needs more contextual based translation, for example he should know went to capitalize certain words. It seems to have a hard time with that. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm looking for speed and efficiency in creating client ready documents based on speech to text. So far Dragon has help me do that. ### 34. Able to change the way we work **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex K. | Southern Haemophilia Network I.T, Audit and Data Manager, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Dragon is easy to train and easy to use. The translation is great and it picks up new words quite quickly. We link it with our dictation devices within the office and it works very well with the system. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Some users take more time to train their voice then other users, and it can take some persistence. You need to stick with it because there are some great benefits but some users will become frustrated. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** Make sure you have the proper support and training resources for staff and colleagues in place as it will take some time in the short term, but ultimately it will save time in the medium/long term. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Administration time is cut down as the healthcare team can directly dictate themselves. The process used to be as follows: doctor dictates>admin types up>doctor checks. Now the process is as follows: doctor dictates and letter is complete. ### 35. Nuance & Dragon medical **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kylie S. | Pathology laboratory technician, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** What I like best about Nuance is the ease of use and streamlining you gain through their developed software. For instance Dragon Medical. Using Dragon allows users to be "hands free" which helps improve efficiency and speed. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** What I dislike about Nuance is the software glitches and bugs. As of late our Dragon software has repeatedly crashed and given errors. Nuance has tried to troubleshoot with our IT department but the issues persist. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** Utilize all aspects of the software and don't hesitate to contact customer service if functionality is less than optimal. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dragon and Nuance has allowed us to streamline and make our grossing/dictating process more efficient. ### 36. Great for transcription **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2016 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Over the last decade EMRs have replaced the dictation pools that Doctors had come to rely upon. Doctor's done't type but with an EMR it is required. The resolution is to use dictation software, Dragon Naturally Speaking, to fill the void left by the transcriptionist. With the increase in accuracy the tool gets better and better over time. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** The challenge is with integration into most EMR vendors. It can be done but they sure don't make it easy. At some point an EMR vendor will simply buy Dragon and integrate it into the code and the world will never be the same. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** Work with a third party to help with the initial deployment of Dragon Medical. There is so much collaboration and support that the community at large has gained it is of great value to take advantage early on in your deployment. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better patient note, relieving a highly paid physician from boring and challenging administrative work. ### 37. Nuance Products **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ariel C. | Customer Success Account Manager, GAMD, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Nuance as a whole offers many different useful products. They offer software around document workflow, document design and functionality, and software pertinent to different professional fields. From my experience, everything has been easy to use after you pass the learning curve and establish consistent use. The solutions are priced rather competitively too. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Learning tutorials aren't great and it can be trial and error. Some functions within software are buried and cumbersome to find and use. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Workflow automation and processing are what I used some of the products for. The products work across different platforms and common office technology, and work somewhat seemlessly. The benefits include time savings and accuracy with data input, as well having a reliable audit trail. ### 38. Love saving time by dictating work through dragon! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2017 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I love being able to talk out lengthy written documents in less than half the time it would have taken to type! **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Some words come out incorrect but eventually the software does pick up more nuanced vocabulary. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** Use Dragon for quicker drafting of length documents, or even for short reminders to do small tasks. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am cutting down my billable time to clients, saving them money and me time! ### 39. Nuance Speech attendant is very convenient to use for our client **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2016 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Nuance Speech attendant can simply speak the name of a person, department, service or location and be immediately transferred to the right destination – without the hassle of navigating menu options or waiting to waiting to speak with an operator. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** didn't sync with LDAP server properly sometime. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployed Nuance speech attendance for our client. it is simply to deploy in customer's existing voice PBX system ### 40. Good Adobe PDF Alternative **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I like that is has the ribbon in Outlook for an easy 1-click solution. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I haven't figured out how to use it when I'm not in outlook. I.e. switching a word doc to a PDF. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't have a license to use Adobe so it's cost-conscious solution to converting things to PDF. ### 41. Power PDF Advanced **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** i love the simplicity and look of this product compared to the competitors Acrobat Pro. I am able to perform all the necessary requirements that Acrobat provided. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I feel that editing OCR text could be a little more straight forward. I am not crazy about the color they selected. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work in IT for a Law Firm. This tool ahs been very helpful as an Acrobat Replacement. I love the OCR conversion to Word .DOC It is light years better than Acrobat ### 42. As used for patient dictation service. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** It's very accessible as prior we had to use a dictaphone. Additionally we can read our dictations after a few days even if not yet in our EMR. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** App for the iPhone shuts down with incoming call and has to be closed and then opened. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dictation services. ### 43. Great! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Love the interface of the product, it is easy to navigate once you get the hang of the application. I really like all the options you can use on the applications. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Sometimes it crashes when the PDF is too large to load, and it takes a long time to load as well. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easier way to convert PDFs to word. Easier way to scan documents and then edit them. ### 44. Voice Recognition Perfection **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joel C. | Software/Application Support Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2015 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Flexible, multi platformed, high quality and upscale voice recognition software with endless levels of integration! **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Training side, needs to be more in depth, i feel limited to what i can actually do. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** There are different versions of this product for a reason, i am hoping one day that cost efficiency will kick in and i can purchase the proper version i am using for a decent price. However with this said, purchase your edition for your certain sector, i personally recommend the professional. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Workflow has increased dramatically, distributed to many vendors! Literally , the software turns your voice into words with 99% accuracy, you can tell it to open pieces of software and change, edit documents - this software is amazingly brilliant and from a users point of view, you cannot argue. On average i type up to 30 words per minute, this software can type up to 8 words a second. What is better, it genuinely is amazing and you cannot fault it, for years i had been looking for something to do this, with endless levels on integration i can now use it within terminal server environments and even on my local PC. However i dislike the fact that the software is so customization, you can only be taught so much as a user, and it makes me feel like i personally am missing out on this - that's what i find irritating and hopefully this can one day be rectified - slowly but surely i guess, you do however have the ability to set it to start up in the morning and code different pieces of text to certain letters and integrate with microsoft templates, thats what i find really amazing. ### 45. Technology is improving **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew S. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2014 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Fascinating new technology with tons of uses **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Thecnology is not 100% yet. Still needs some work. **What problems is Dragon Speech Recognition Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great for funnelling customers to proper service reps ### 46. dont expect instant results **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David S. | Senior Sales Representative - Service Management, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2013 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** very good voice recognition when used over time. Various solutions are available for various industries, proving itself to be a reliable and functional tool for many given situations. Dragon is a very convenient method of transcribing your work (for example when driving, but i dont recommend it!). The mobile application is available for free and can work with twitter and facebook, as well as email and texting. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** A user can become too reliant and complacent using such a solution, to the extent of failing to proof read any work done via Dragon. It can be unreliable due to varied speech patterns, accents and background noise. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** Dragon are a proven provider of voice recognition software, and thats proven with their wide range of offerings for multiple industries including education, healthcare and professional business. Speech recognition will improve over time as it adjusts to the user so dont expect instant results. The price for individual users can be off-putting however the free application for the iPhone is worth consideration if you dont like Apples Siri. ### 47. Wish I had this when I was in school. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2013 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** This is an awesome tool to use if you have anything to write that iks long in length and doesnt require many clicks. It is great for writing reports or anything of that nature. I have occasionaly used it for excel spreadsheets and it actualyl very fluent. All you need to do is click into the sqaure you would like to input into and talk away. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Like most verbal recognition tools, it doesn't always work. Some people pronounce things differnt ways and making numerous corrections can get more annoying than just typing things out manually. Other than errors there is really nothing to dislike. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** While I was typing this review I was thinking to myself. Maybe I should install Dragon here at home so I can just speak out my reviews! If you find yourself typing numerous long reports daily give Dragon a try! ### 48. Not that Bad **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter B. | Director, Enterprise Solution Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2012 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** The app is pretty cool, but make sure you don't have any background noise going on when using it. For a free app, it works ok, but again, need to be in a quiet area to really feel the power .. using from a car does not bode well. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Not much not to like .. it's voice recognition, so since there is not a lot of successful apps on the market today that are for free, I can't really say much negatively about this app. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** Since it's free, I recommend that you give it a try. It does take time to get used to and it's not perfect, so if you go into it thinking it's going to be the greatest thing since the iPhone, don't bother trying. ### 49. Poor Voice Recognition **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erich R. | Co-founder & CSO, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2012 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I like the concept of being able to dictate a Word document or an email, however, the reality of this software is that it requires a heavy amount of coaching and teaching the software to understand your voice. Even after that, it seems to have trouble understanding basic phrases. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** Nuance has been around for quite some time, delivering voice recognition technology for your desktop. I've tried several versions of their software over the years, hoping that some day I will finally get simple to setup voice recognition technology for my computer, but each year I'm left disappointed. **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** The voice technology on the latest version of the iPad is superior in many ways to Nuance's Dragon. If you're in the market for voice recognition technology or the ability to dictate documents you would normally type you might want to consider something. ### 50. NUance is a great product for dictation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex W. | CEO, Co-Owner, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2012 **What do you like best about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I love the ease of composing messages with the Nuance Dragon products. Whether it is writing an email to a customer or writing notes for later use it offers an easy way to keep track of your thoughts. **What do you dislike about Dragon Speech Recognition Software?** I don't like the amount of functions that a person needs to memorize initially, but once you get used to it everything flows nicely **Recommendations to others considering Dragon Speech Recognition Software:** I suggest this product for anyone that composes a lot of emails. ## Dragon Speech Recognition Software Discussions - [Dragon Speech Recognition - Does it work (on Mac silicon) under Parallels?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/dragon-speech-recognition-does-it-work-on-mac-silicon-under-parallels) - 1 comment, 3 upvotes - [Why do they offer so little support? 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