Nuance Raises the Bar in Speech Recognition, Delivers
Improved Productivity with New Features, Enhanced Recorded Audio
Transcription and Up to 24 Percent Greater Accuracy
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced its
new suite of Dragon professional productivity solutions for PC and
Mac that leverage Nuance Deep Learning technology to deliver
upwards of 24 percent greater accuracy driving new levels of
documentation productivity for professionals. The new Dragon
releases include Dragon Professional Individual, version 15; Dragon
Legal Individual, version 15; and, Dragon Professional Individual
for Mac, version 6, and feature powerful dictation, transcription
and customization capabilities. All these solutions also sync
vocabulary customizations and auto-texts with Nuance Dragon
Anywhere, available separately, to extend the benefits of
professional-grade speech recognition to mobile devices running iOS
or Android.
Deep Learning is Ready for Work
Dragon speech recognition accuracy, speed and personalization
have long set the standard for voice productivity on the Mac, PC
and mobile devices. And with Deep Learning technology at the core
of its speech engine, Dragon delivers increased accuracy for even
more users, with an enhanced ability to learn individuals’ voice
patterns and accents, and deftly adapt to acoustics in open office
or mobile environments. This latest Dragon release marks the first
time Deep Learning capabilities can run embedded on a personal
computer leveraging a user’s own speech data to improve their own
language and acoustic model.
"Deep Learning is a powerful pattern recognition technique
inspired by the way the human brain learns and interprets sensory
input, which Nuance has leveraged to advance accuracy across our
speech recognition technologies, including Dragon,” said Vlad
Sejnoha, chief technology officer, Nuance Communications. “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.”
The new Dragon also brings with it advanced transcription,
powerful customization, and an improved ability to work with
portable touchscreen PCs, extending the benefits of speech
recognition to more mobile use cases and environments. As a result,
documents are completed with higher accuracy in a fraction of the
time, giving professionals across a number of industries – such as
legal, public safety, social services and education – the ability
to focus more on mission-critical tasks.
Dragon Professional Individual, version 15
Dragon Professional Individual, version 15 delivers additional
usability and performance enhancements to give professionals the
ability to get more done in less time. Designed for PCs, Dragon
Professional Individual expands the boundaries of speech
recognition innovation for document creation with accuracy
improvements up to 24 percent, without training, over previous
versions, as well as across-the-board enhancements, including:
- Optimization for popular touchscreen
PCs
- Formatting and other recognition
improvements to minimize post-editing
- Simplified set up and improved user
interface
- Enhanced support for recorded audio
transcription, with streamlined setup and improved profile
management
- Expanded support, including full
voice-driven editing, formatting, and command and control within
popular desktop or web applications for business
- Contextual guidance tailored to user
behavior, as well as improved help to get new users up to speed
quickly or for existing users to easily further discover the power
of Dragon.
Dragon Legal Individual, version 15
In addition to leveraging the robust feature set of Dragon
Professional Individual, Dragon Legal Individual, version 15 for
the PC is designed specifically for the legal industry, empowering
attorneys and other legal professionals to speed document
turnaround and reduce transcription costs. A specialized legal
vocabulary trained using more than 400 million words from legal
documents enables legal professionals to quickly create and format
case files, contracts, or briefs all by voice. Powerful
customization, fast and accurate transcription, and automatic
formatting of legal citations further boost efficiency.
Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, version 6
Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, version 6 empowers busy
professionals to quickly and accurately complete documentation and
reporting on the Mac by boasting accuracy improvements of up to 24
percent, without training, over previous versions. The solution
features contextual guidance tailored to an individual’s usage, as
well as improved help to get new users up to speed quickly or for
existing users to easily further discover the power of Dragon.
In addition to enabling professionals to quickly and accurately
dictate reports, spreadsheets, emails, and other documentation, the
solution now offers a transcription Batch Mode to save time
transcribing multiple audio files. Dragon Professional Individual
for Mac also empowers users to work even more quickly and
accurately by voice with support for Full Text Control within the
latest business applications. Dragon Professional Individual for
Mac leverages Apple’s Accessibility API to support Apple Pages,
Apple Keynote, Apple Numbers, Microsoft Outlook 2016, and
Scrivener, among others.
“Our customers are writers, and we are always looking for ways
in which we can expand on the powerful tools available to them. We
designed Scrivener to support any creative or professional
workflow—whether building a meticulous outline, hammering out a
draft or referring to research, Scrivener’s features
are flexible enough to accommodate the writer’s way of
working. Dragon support takes this a step further, giving our users
another way of getting their words down, allowing them to
think out loud, quickly and easily dictating long-form notes and
text right inside our app,” said Keith Blount, founder,
Scrivener.
Additionally, Dragon Professional Individual, Dragon Legal
Individual and Dragon Individual Professional for Mac can be
synchronized with the Dragon Anywhere mobile app for Android and
iOS devices, enabling a powerful cross-device experience so that
professionals can use the same vocabulary customizations and
auto-text commands wherever they use Dragon.
“This latest suite of professional productivity solutions brings
with it some of the most advanced capabilities to drive
documentation productivity – with higher accuracy, speed and
efficiency,” said Peter Mahoney, senior vice president and general
manager of Dragon. “Combined with Dragon’s optimization for
portable touchscreen PC’s and the ability to sync with Dragon
Anywhere, professionals are able to keep up with documentation
demands from just about anywhere their business takes them.”
Availability and Pricing
Dragon Professional Individual will be available for download in
English in the US, UK and Australia for $300 on September 1, 2016.
Physical product shipments will be available by mid-September.
Dragon Professional Individual is available for $150 for users
upgrading from Dragon Professional Individual, version 14 and
Dragon Professional, versions 12 and higher, and for $200 for users
upgrading from Dragon Premium, versions 12 and higher. Additional
details can be found here.
Dragon Professional Individual for Mac will be available for
download in English in the US, UK and Australia for $300 on
September 1, 2016 with special upgrade pricing of $150 or
registered users of Dragon Dictate for Mac, versions 4 and higher.
Additional details can be found here.
Dragon Legal Individual will be available in U.S. English from
the Nuance Online store in the United States for $500. For more
information and to purchase Dragon Legal Individual, please visit
the Dragon Legal Individual page on Nuance.com.
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About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ : NUAN) is a leading
provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and
consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and
services make the user experience more compelling by transforming
the way people interact with devices and systems. Every day,
millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s
proven applications. For more information, please visit
www.nuance.com.
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