Nuance SN-K889Z-RD7-15.0 Product Data Sheet
New features in Dragon Professional Individual, v15
Next-generation
speech technology
for optimal
productivity
What’s newDragon speech recognition
The all-new Dragon Professional
Individual, v15, expands the
boundaries of speech recognition
innovation for document creation.
Featuring a smarter next-generation
speech engine with the latest
Deep Learning technology,
Dragon constantly learns and
adapts to your unique voice and
environmental variations – even
while you’re dictating – to deliver
new levels of personalised accuracy
and productivity. With accuracy
improvements of up to 10% over
previous versions and across the
board enhancements, including
transcription features, broader
application support, optimisation
for popular touchscreen PCs and
contextual guidance tailored to your
usage, Dragon v15 empowers you to
complete documentation faster and
more efficiently than ever before.
Faster and more accurate
than ever
Dragon Professional Individual,
v15, expands the possibilities of
speech recognition innovation with
a next-generation speech engine,
significantly increasing accuracy
over previous versions. Dragon
uniquely brings consistent, optimal
accuracy to the PC, with Deep
Learning technology and adaptation
techniques that continuously adjust
to your voice or environmental
variations, even while you’re
dictating. Dragon v15 provides:
– Up to 10% improved accuracy out
of the box without training.
– Continuous learning – even during
dictation – for individually adapted
accuracy improvements that
enhance the user experience.
– Optimal accuracy achieved for
speakers with accents or in slightly
noisy environments such as in a
cubicle environment.
Formatting and other recognition
improvements, for minimal editing
Dragon delivers improved recognition
of number and email address
formatting, hyperlink formatting
in auto-texts and place names
based on how we naturally speak,
resulting in fewer overall corrections.
Examples include:
– “three double two five” -> “3225”
– “two point five million” -> “2.5
million”
– “oh point five” -> “0.5”
– “quarter to five” -> “4:45”
– “eight pounds fifty” -> “£8.50”
– “John dot Smith at Nuance dot
com” -> john.smith@nuance.com
– Better overall handling of Roman
numerals
Optimised for popular form factors
such as touchscreens
Dragon is optimised for popular form
factors such as portable touchscreen
PCs so you can experience new
levels of documentation productivity
on the go. It’s great for today’s new
PCs including highly mobile devices
with hybrid touch and keyboard
interaction modes. You’ll enjoy an:
To learn more about Dragon
Professional Individual, as well as
the complete line of Dragon speech
recognition products, visit:
www.nuance.co.uk/dragon/
New features in Dragon Professional Individual, v15
What’s newDragon speech recognition
– Improved touch experience on
Windows 10 tablets or tablet
mode.
– Improved ability to open and
interact with the DragonBar by
touch.
Improved set up
Dragon provides simplified
microphone selection for faster,
easier setup:
– No transcription setup option
needed.
– No smartphone option needed
(since built-in microphone is
already supported along with
numerous other microphone
options).
– Adding a new microphone
source is faster than ever with no
additional training requirement.
Improved user interface and
experience
Dragon delivers an improved user
experience that makes powerful
features easier to discover and use.
– Improved “Options” menu, with
relevant options and settings
consolidated into one easy-touse dialog box. Menu selections
include for example:
– License management (for
Dragon Anywhere.
– Profile management.
– Auto-formatting options.
– Improved browser experience.
– Detects when a web extension
or plugin is not active and
notifies the user with information
on how to install it.
– Faster startup time with
synchronisation of shared words
and auto-texts from Dragon
Anywhere performed in the
background; there is no need to
log in and out for synchronisation
to occur.
Enhanced transcription
The enhanced transcription
process leverages all the accuracy
improvements gained from the stateof-the-art engine, while reducing the
number of steps required to getting
your audio recordings transcribed.
– Simplified user interface and
better speaker management.
– No training is required for
transcription; you no longer need
to initially transcribe and correct
a short 90-second clip to achieve
transcription accuracy.
– Acoustic and language model
adaptation are automatically
leveraged for the current user.
– No training is required for third-
party transcription; there is also
better separation of current user
data versus third-party speaker
data.
– If you will be frequently
transcribing a particular thirdparty, the Help feature will guide
you through creating a separate
profile for that speaker.
– Fast, post-recognition process
automatically applies basic
punctuation that is not dictated
to give you a head start as
you review or correct your
transcription results.
Updated web and application
support
Dragon empowers you to work
even more quickly and accurately
by voice with support for Enhanced
Dictation within the latest business
applications. Web and desktop
applications with enhanced support
include, for example:
– WordPerfect X8
– Skype for Business
Improved help
Contextual guidance tailored to
your usage helps you maximise
the power of Dragon and complete
documentation more efficiently than
ever before. Dragon offers multiple
ways to accelerate proficiency and
get the most out of your speech
recognition investment – even
offering productivity tips and helping
you discover advanced Dragon
features. You can take advantage of:
– Helpful tips, triggered by first-time
actions when the microphone is
on, such as:
– Explaining Enhanced Dictation
when user is working in a
supported application.
– Tip to say “scratch that” when
user hits backspace.
– Browser help when user first
enters web applications such
as any web page, Google Docs,
Gmail, Web Word or Outlook.
com.
– Tips for working with the
dictation box.
– Tips for working in tablet mode.
– Improved online help:
– Enhanced help that gives users
easier access to top searches.
– Changing content on main help
page with highly used topics.
– Short tutorial videos integrated
in help for areas of high interest.
– New troubleshooting sections.
– Expanded navigational text that
gives users more information/
context.
– More task-based dialog box
help.
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