IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding vs. Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition

IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding is a Swiss Army knife that can be used in many scenarios. An extensive list of easy to use APIs is provided making it very easy to integrate it in any environment. The text analysis is decent and above market average. It generates results in many forms to suit may scenarios (important keywords, concepts, sentiment analysis, etc.).

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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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• Easy to use and extensive APIs.
• Decent accuracy.
• It recognizes concepts and semantic roles.

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• 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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• Improve Sentiment Analysis accuracy.
• Prevent having conflicting results (sad and happy, etc.).
• Foreign names detection.

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• 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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• 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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Once you learn the product, it is quite easy to use.

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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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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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• Reduced development time.
• Increased solution efficiency in understanding the user.
• Increased solution scalability.

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• 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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