Dragon 15: Nuance’s Speech Recognition App Gets a Major Update
Nuance, the company behind popular speech recognition software Dragon, has released Dragon 15. This new version boasts improved accuracy thanks to the company’s deep learning technology. According to Nuance, this latest upgrade brings better accuracy “upwards of 24 percent,” with improved ability to recognize and learn accents and voice patterns, while adapting to the acoustics of the speaker’s environment.
Nuance’s CTO stated, “Training such Deep Neural Net models typically requires large amounts of training data and a high-performance computing environment. However, our new Dragon portfolio includes our latest breakthrough that allows Dragon’s Deep Neural Nets to continuously learn from the user’s speech during use on a standard personal computer, and drive accuracy rates in some instances up to 24 percent higher.”
Version 15 also brings a simplified user interface, formatting improvements, more support for audio transcription and optimization for a number of touchscreen Windows PCs.
There are a number of different editions of the software tailored to various usages, including Dragon Professional Individual, version 15; Dragon Legal Individual, version 15; and Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, version 6.
Dragon Professional Individual will be available starting September 1st, priced at 300,butwillrunlessforthoseupgradingfromoldereditions.TheMacversionhasthesamepricingstructureandLegalIndividualwillrun200 more.
