Dragon is Nuance’s speech recognition line, covering professional dictation and documentation alongside healthcare applications built for physicians and radiologists. nuance.com now redirects to the Dragon site and the page states plainly that Nuance is Microsoft, following the acquisition, with the products running on Microsoft’s cloud and security infrastructure.
Longevity is the argument here and it is a stronger one than it sounds. Dragon has been trained on professional dictation – the vocabulary, the accents, the hesitations, the domain terminology of medicine and law – for longer than most of the companies in this directory have existed. A general transcription model is very good at conversational speech and noticeably worse at a radiologist reading a chest CT, and the gap is entirely in the training data.
Everything is sold through Microsoft with no pricing on the page. The product name is now split across two brands and the sites reflect that, which makes finding the right edition harder than it should be; clinical documentation carries regulatory obligations independent of the software; and the general-purpose models have closed much of the everyday-dictation gap even where the specialist gap remains.
