Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a lawyer with my predominant practice being mediation and arbitration. I practice by myself. I use Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition for all of my document creation needs, for correspondence, legal briefing, and all other things that happen within a law office. Using this application has allowed me to avoid hiring a secretary, except for special projects.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition is well-suited for any document creation need. Not as great on forms, because there must be time for one to process one's thoughts, but still pretty good. Memory issues seem to make the program delay transcribing words to an unacceptable extent. I'm sure artificial intelligence will change the program substantially.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a computer consultant and I have several clients (mostly lawyers) who use Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition for dictating rather than paying for a person to do the same. It allows them to dictate their thoughts, notes, etc. in a private room without having to use a person to type what they are saying.

Likelihood to Recommend

I listen to lawyers dictate to Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition a few times a month--it always makes me wonder why they still use it and put up with it. To me it seems like it would be much more efficient (and faster) to just learn to type or hire a transcriptionist to put their thoughts, notes, words, etc. into a computer.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition is available to members of staff subject to their work requirements (it is not available to staff who do not meet specific requirements). A number of my colleagues are required to produce minutes of meetings with a very fast turnaround and approval has been granted to those members of staff to use Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition as a means of improving efficiency and to ensure compliance with statutory deadlines in relation to publishing minutes of public proceedings.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition is being used across the organization. It is used for data entry, report writing and editing, email correspondence, etc. It helps in many ways reducing typing and manual editing of appraisal reports, letters, email, and so forth. Occasionally it has been used to read documents. Different users utilize different features.

Likelihood to Recommend

I write many letters to friends and family, and I serve as a mentor for a prison ministry. The ability to dictate letters makes it easier to think and not worry about keeping up with typing. Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition does the heavy lifting, freeing me to focus on the subject and edit when necessary. I also like to use it in chats. Again, the ease of saying what I am thinking (and getting words spelled correctly) is beneficial.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition is used by the physicians at my office for dictating progress and procedure notes after seeing patients. This product is integrated with our electronic medical records system, and it allows for the discontinuation of paper charts for the patients. This cuts down on paper supplies and other miscellaneous office supplies to keep patient charts intact.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition is well suited to use with our EMR system. It is fairly accurate when dictating the speech of the physicians in our office, but when it is not accurate, the physicians have the ability to do more in-depth training. Also, the fact that they have a healthcare specialty system is very helpful in our pain management practice.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nuance makes speech recognition so easy. I've had experience with other recognition systems, but the recognition from Nuance is accurate even when the confidence of the speaker is sometimes low. Having a multimodal input always provides an option to provide input apart from the traditional DTMF input. It is certainly a more efficient way of communication.

Likelihood to Recommend

The main advantage is that it adjusts to your tone and accent. Integration with a wide range of apps and operating systems is advantageous. It is very simple to incorporate custom words and acronyms, so recognition becomes very precise and customized over time as the system gets trained on the usual utterances. The system might not be perfect when the background noise is included in the input causing recognition to fail.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition is used as a single license. Not campus-wide.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition is still a good choice for those that need to use a lot of technical terms. Otherwise, other companies are putting together more simple and as effective software. Lacking support for macOS is a big minus.