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    Dragon Speech Recognition

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ADragon is a suite of AI-powered speech recognition solutions designed for professional dictation, document creation, and workflow automation. The platform utilizes Deep Learning technology to convert spoken language into text with high precision, allowing users to control their workstations and author complex documents through natural language.

    $14.99

    per month

    IBM Watson Discovery

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIBM offers Watson Discovery, a natural language processing (NLP) application with options to measure sentiment, detect entities, semantic roles, and other concepts.N/A
    Pricing
    Dragon Speech RecognitionIBM Watson Discovery
    Editions & Modules
    Dragon Anywhere
    $14.99
    per month
    Dragon Professional Individual, v15
    $500
    per license
    Dragon Legal Individual, v15
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    Offerings
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    Dragon Speech RecognitionIBM Watson Discovery
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Dragon Speech RecognitionIBM Watson Discovery
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Dragon Speech RecognitionIBM Watson Discovery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.3
    (26 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.1
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    Usability
    8.0
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    4.8
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    Support Rating
    5.0
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    User Testimonials
    Dragon Speech RecognitionIBM Watson Discovery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    My job requires that I produce lengthy and detailed minutes of meetings and Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition is absolutely ideally suited for this purpose. Notably, meetings are recorded and it is extremely easy to playback the recording of meetings while dictating notes. This is a remarkable saving in time and effort in producing minutes that might otherwise take a few days. I cannot think of any scenario where it would be less appropriate to use Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition other than in a situation where it is not possible to dictate for whatever reason.
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    IBM
    Overall, IBM Watson Discovery is an amazing technology that we use with our clients to address various business problems, but the biggest challenge has always been about ingesting, analyzing, enriching, and searching huge collections of documents and allowing our end users and SMEs to be able to search for what they need to reduce the time and efforts spent daily on a manual search through various collections of documents. We have successfully managed to reduce manual work by over 80%, and now our SMEs are being used for the skills they have to gather insights rather than do manual work.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • The main advantage is that it calibrates itself around your tone and accent.
    • Integration with many apps and operative system is good.
    • Integrating custom words and acronyms is very easy, so, over time, recognition becomes very precise and customized.
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    IBM
    • It is an excellently fast platform with documents and the answers to queries.
    • With automation learning beneficial as it saves time.
    • When searching for a document, everything stays located and easy to find.
    • Acceptance of various documents.
    • It has a quite comfortable Technical support, always available when required.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Word recognition can always improve.
    • Sometimes puts stray words or characters on the page if you forget to tell the microphone to go to sleep.
    • Adds non-spoken words for no reason if there is a delay in speaking.
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    IBM
    • I believe AI should be more flexible about providing data. However, it's understandable that you need to provide the details you need in a more specific and detailed way.
    • The interface could use more tweaking. Being new to the program, it was kind of hard to navigate.
    • Luckily, there was a customized feature of the dashboard that I could set up, and having something that you know where you are placed always feels familiar and comfortable.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    • Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition is not up to par with any of the other AI voice recognition technologies currently available
    • The software is also very buggy and crashes frequently
    • Punctuation also seems like an afterthought for Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition software--requiring the user to speak out each comma, period, etc.
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    IBM
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    Overall, its gives the functionality that I need in my role and can support with automating tasks. I mainly use it for autotext, to add blocks of text and it works universally across all applications. It saves time and works well in Windows 11. It works very well navigating the web.
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    IBM
    IBM Watson Discovery has the best user capabilities and easily transform business decision-making portfolio. The automation system saves time used in data analysis as opposed to manual research that consumes a lot of time. The visualization across the dashboard enables my team to interpret complex data and use it to make reliable marketing decisions.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    One of the worst companies in terms of customer service getting the download file because of a laptop upgrade took me months of work. No jokes.
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    IBM
    Similar to all IBM Watson and Salesforce product solutions, the overall support would be a 10/10. Their provided FAQ's help with frequently experienced issues and if still unable to figure something out, their customer service representatives are always super responsive. With instant chat functions available, it is easy to ask a quick question rather than sitting on hold.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Other than the more recent speech recognition tools from Microsoft, Google, etc., I have always used Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition. I was introduced to AI technology on an appraisal assignment. During the engagement, I had an opportunity to learn about the technology, and when I researched speech recognition software, the best reviews were of Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition. I purchased Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition and have stayed with the product.
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    IBM
    Discovery differs from its competitors due to the better ease of implementation and the high level of natural language recognition, it is equal in integration resources such as API and workflow or process pipeline, but it loses in the price for a high volume of documents and/or research. If you own or plan to use other services from the IBM Watson family, there is no doubt that Watson discovery is your best option. Another important point is if you plan to use a cloud or on-premise service (local server or private cloud).
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition has made it easier to dictate progress notes
    • Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition has made seeing patients more efficient
    • Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition was a little expensive for our smaller practice
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    IBM
    • We find its Enterprise plan expensive for a country of LATAM. For US or Europe based businesses, looks great.
    • A Big Data and massive queries based company would find the service expensive. Maybe a flat price plan would be helpful.
    • Have you thought in making a cheaper plan where you take the learning from your customer's data to enrich your AI tool?
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