Dragon 16 Professional
July 08, 2025

Dragon 16 Professional

Richard Hughes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Dragon

Dragon supports hands-free typing by commands and provides the opportunity to speak emails and documents. It has powerful keyboard shortcut capabilities by saying the word "press" for example "press Windows and D" and this works effectively. It makes more sense to say "Show Desktop" in Dragon. This assists with users who struggle to use keyboard. It is also possible to program your own autotext or language by using step by step commands. It can assist with workflows as you can open programmes by voice. It has potential to complete forms using macro recorder that will record a mouse movements to automate tasks.

Pros

  • Speech recognition
  • automation
  • transcription

Cons

  • Program complex keyboard shortcuts
  • known issues with understanding medical terms
  • Need to be quicker
  • Cost
  • Delay
  • Learning time
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.
You can train in unknown words and use autotext. It learns my writing style and uses AI algorithms to understand context of dictation. Dragon works on all applications instead of googles service that will work online only. Can program Dragon commands to complete repetitive sentences. Dragon can open websites and documents entirely by voice whereas Google's is cloud based.

Do you think Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition's feature set?

Yes

Did Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition again?

Yes

Dragon is well suited for occasional dictation whereas for short tasks it may be less appropriate. Step by step commands can take a lot of time to program however these would be worthwhile long term if it is a repetitive task. Dragon is a new language to learn and this can be overwhelming. By following the guide this will support you for future use and it is possible to learn by using the "click" command which replicates the mouse click. With this scenario you can say what you see for example in Word, say click home then click centre which will centre the document

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