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Dragon v16 delivers accurate speech recognition to convert spoken words to text. It is used by corporate executives, mobile/field workers, professional services personnel, lawyers, students, and retirees to capture text “in the moment” instead of relying on note-taking or transcribing audio files at a later time.

Nuance Dragon Professional (and Legal) Anywhere empowers busy professionals—including remote workers—to use their voice naturally to create more detailed and accurate documentation quickly and easily. Hosted on Microsoft Azure, this highly scalable, AI-powered speech recognition solution extends the usability and value of enterprise applications and is ideal for thin-client/virtualized networks.

Dragon Anywhere Mobile is a professional-grade, cloud-based dictation solution for busy professionals who want to work faster and smarter using their mobile device. Dragon Anywhere Mobile lets you customize words, create boilerplate text or commands to quickly and accurately dictate and edit documents of any length by voice directly on your mobile device. Your document can be shared, customizations synced up with your Dragon desktop product, so you can continue your work seamlessly wherever you go. By being more productive on the road, you can focus more time on clients, customers and strategic tasks that contribute to the bottom line.

Dragon speech recognition has industry leading accuracy and is "speaker dependent", meaning it learns your unique style of speaking which further improves its accuracy over time.

Dragon v16 is first designed for Windows 11. It includes numerous updates and enhancements surrounding support for Microsoft Office like “Modern Comments” when editing documents, accessibility updates, enhanced support of Dragon for common hardware configurations, PowerMic 4 compatibility and support for WordPerfect 2021 (still prevalent in the legal sector).

Yes – Dragon Anywhere Mobile can sync with both Dragon Professional (and Legal) v16, and with Dragon Professional (and Legal) Anywhere. Custom words and auto-texts are automatically synchronized with both Dragon solutions (for supported editions), so next time you log into the network you can work seamlessly by voice anywhere you go.

Yes, you can try the full Dragon Anywhere Mobile for one (1) week prior to purchasing a subscription. At the end of the week, your subscription will automatically roll over to an auto-renewing, monthly subscription unless you decide to cancel.

Dragon Professional v16 is a robust, locally installed, native Windows application that offers a full speech recognition experience, including transcription of recorded audio and comprehensive accessibility features. Whereas, Dragon Professional Anywhere is a streamlined and secure cloud-based Windows thin client speech recognition application that provides "anywhere" access to speech recognition that's always up-to-date with the latest security and performance enhancements.

Dragon Legal 16 is a robust, locally installed, legal-focused, native Windows application that offers a full speech recognition experience, including transcription of recorded audio and comprehensive accessibility features. Whereas, Dragon Legal Anywhere is a streamlined and secure, legal-focused, cloud-based Windows thin client speech recognition application that provides "anywhere" access to speech recognition that's always up-to-date with the latest security and performance enhancements.

Most people can begin dictating immediately, and almost everyone learns the mechanics of dictating and using addtional functionality of Dragon within 2 weeks.

Dragon Professional v16 is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch & Italian. Dragon Legal v16 is available in US English and German.

For licenses sold via the US ecommerce store Dragon Professional (and Legal) Anywhere is available in US English only.

Yes, the Professional and Legal version of the product can transcribe an audio file that contains one speaker. However, Dragon Professional (and Legal) Anywhere do not support this functionality.

Dragon Professional and Legal will transcribe an audio file that has been created in MP3, WAV, WMA, DS2 or DSS format. These products will not transcribe other audio formats. Dragon cannot capture an interview between two or more people and create a transcript of that conversation, it is designed to transcribe a single speaker's voice at one time.

Dragon Professional (and Legal) v16 and Dragon Professional (and Legal) Anywhere are designed for use on Windows 10 and 11 machines. Dragon Anywhere Mobile is the product designed for mobile devices running iOS or Android and can be synced for use with Dragon Professional.

No, there is a slight delay so Dragon can hear the entirety of the sentence the user is speaking and adjust accordingly.

Yes, Dragon Professional (and Legal) v16 contains text to speech functionality. However, Dragon Professional (and Legal) Anywhere do not support this functionality.

Dragon is a speaker-dependent solution designed to recognize a single speaker’s voice. Each license of Dragon represents a single user/live speaker. When using Dragon's “Transcribe Recording” feature, an additional recorded voice (separate from the licensed speaker’s voice) can be effectively transcribed, but only in instances where a single speaker is recorded. Transcription of audio files that contain two or more speakers is not supported. Additional licenses are required for additional live speakers.

The addition of specialized legal vocabulary.

No.

No. Dragon is speaker dependent and learns the unique characteristics of your voice. This enables high levels of accuracy, but means it cannot be shared with others.

For Professional and Legal products, just click on the install link in your order confirmation email following purchase. You will then be guided through the download and installation process. For Dragon Anywhere Mobile, download from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

Dragon Professional and Legal licenses are per user, not per machine. A licensed speaker is permitted to create and use multiple voice profiles, and these voice profiles can be activated on two separate machines. A separate license, however, must be purchased for each additional speaker whose voice profile(s) are being used by the software. Read more.

No, Dragon is only available for Windows/PC.

You can purchase and then install the second language on the same PC, but the base Dragon must be the same version, so currently all would need to be version 16. You cannot combine v15 with v16. This means if you need French, German and English, you would purchase French and German. English is supplied free with all other versions of the Professional product. You need to create a profile for each language.

Uninstall the software from your current computer whilst connected to the internet and the Nuance activation server will return your licence to you. You are then free to install on another computer.

That depends on the version you currently have. If you have the previous version of Dragon (v15) then upgrade pricing is available from our e-commerce store for Dragon Professional and Dragon Legal. Please note that if you have an earlier version of Dragon (ie v14 and below) then you will need to buy a new license at full price. Dragon Professional (and Legal) Anywhere and Dragon Anywhere Mobile are updated regularly.

Dragon Home v15 is a solution not optimized for professional users. Therefore, Nuance did not create Dragon Home v16. It will, however, continue to be supported in accordance with Nuance “Current + 1 prior” support policy. In addition, as a perpetual license, users may continue to use it throughout the end of support of Windows 10 - currently scheduled for October 2025.

From 5 users upwards. Contact sales to discuss this further.

No, but there is a free trial of the Dragon Anywhere Mobile dictation app for iOS and Android: Try it now.

Yes, Dragon Professional (and Legal) v16 as well as Dragon Professional (and Legal) Anywhere are fully optimized for Windows 11. It is designed to help organizations and individual professional users to prepare for the inevitable global migration of PCs to the Windows 11 operating system.

Yes, Dragon is fully compatible with Windows 11 and Windows 10.

Dragon will work in virtually any Windows-based application where you can position a cursor and type as you would with your keyboard. Some applications however, (like Microsoft Office) offer “full text control” allowing for higher levels of formatting features. Full text control is denoted by a green circle in the Dragon bar.

Yes, but you need to install the Dragon Chrome extension for your Chrome browser to do so. Note that “full text control” and certain commands may not work in all online applications and may necessitate the user of the Dragon dictation box.

Dragon can be used with a wide variety of microphones (including built into a laptop), although we typically recommend a high-quality usb microphone/headset, our Dragon Bluetooth headset, or our PowerMic 4 microphone. Learn more about official Nuance accessories here.

Dragon will recognise most formats of audio (MP3, WAV, WMA, DS2 or DSS formats). The type of device is not relevant.

Once installation and activation have occurred, Dragon Professional (and Legal) v16 do not require an internet connection to function. With volume license editions of the software, connecting to the Nuance Management Center (NMC) is an optional feature that would require a brief connection while logging into Dragon, but the use of NMC is not mandatory. Dragon Anywhere Mobile and Dragon Professional (and Legal) Anywhere on the other hand do require internet connectivity.

No, it requires an active WiFi or mobile connection.