Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Professional, Premium and Home Edition Feature Comparison
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| Recognition Accuracy | Turns your voice into text with up to 99% accuracy. New: 15% fewer speech recognition errors out of the box than Dragon 10; Recognition Analytics (Dragon automatically detects poor audio input and alerts the user, offering advice to remedy the situation); multi-core support makes use of machines with multi-core architecture |
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| Recognition Speed | Words appear on the screen three times faster than typing New: Faster response times for commands | √ | √ | √ |
| System Configuration | Installation automatically detects available PC resources (CPU, Processor Cache, RAM) and configures system for optimal use. | √ | √ | √ |
| Correction | Correct text by voice New: Enhanced Correction Menu and Spelling Window; new “don’t recognise that word” command; Dragon “learns” from edits, including keyboard edits, faster than ever before |
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| Accuracy Tuning | Acoustic and Language Model Optimiser; ability to analyze selected documents and email; includes “Nothing But Speech” filter to automatically eliminate um/ah utterances New: Enhanced Accuracy Centre with focus on ease of use |
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| Dictation Box | Ability to create, modify, and correct text within text fields or applications where Dragon does not have Full Text Control | √ | √ | √ |
| User Interface | New: Enhanced DragonBar with contextual messages to improve usability and feature discoverability; new Dragon Sidebar presenting commands and tips; redesigned Profile Creation Wizard with focus on ease of use; more readable text for enrolment and microphone check |
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| Help System and Tutorials | Includes comprehensive Help and tutorial New: Includes richer tutorial and tips; at anytime, you can search the Help for a particular word or phrase with the command “search Dragon Help for <xyz>” |
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| Editing and Formatting Text | Format text by voice; Quick Voice Formatting (commands to delete/bold/underline/italicise/capitalise/copy/cut text) New: Handle multiple instances of a word or phrase in your text |
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| Command and Control | Ability to “click by voice” an application’s menus and dialog box elements; click/move/drag the mouse by voice; commands; press keys or key combinations by voice New: Global commands for launching applications and folders, switching to a specific window, or tabbing multiple times |
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| Application Support: Web | Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox: Menu Tracking and Natural Language Commands *** | √ | √ | √ |
| Application Support: Word Processing |
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| Application Support: Email |
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| Application Support: Spreadsheets |
Excel 2003, 2007 and 2010: Full Text Control, Menu Tracking, and Natural Language Commands New: Excel 2010 (Natural Language Commands in English only) |
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| Application Support: Presentations |
PowerPoint 2003, 2007 and 2010: Menu Tracking, and English Natural Language Commands New: PowerPoint 2010 (Natural Language Commands in English only) |
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| Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Web Search | Dragon Voice Shortcuts™ collapse common multi-step tasks into direct voice commands. Now you can search the Web for information, products, news and more – faster than ever New: shortcut commands to search more websites, including Nuance Technical Support | √ | √ | √ |
| Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Email and Desktop Search |
Send emails, schedule meetings or search your desktop faster than ever New: Email shortcut commands to control messages and desktop content; new shortcut to search Dragon Help |
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| Text to Speech | A synthesised voice reads out loud text you designate | √ | √ | √ |
| Advanced Correction / Editing |
Ability to playback your speech in documents New: Improved playback functionality and options |
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| Multiple Dictation Sources | Ability to create multiple dictation sources (more than one type of audio input device) sharing a vocabulary | √ | √ | — |
| Mobile Dictation | Allows transcription from digital recorders New: Reduced enrolment reading time to 4 minutes; direct support for recordings in .dss and .ds2 file formats |
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| Wireless Dictation | Specific Bluetooth wireless acoustic model | √ | √ | — |
| Administration | Ability to import/export custom word lists and user profiles | √ | √ | — |
| Text-and-Graphics Custom Commands | Easily create or import commands to insert frequently used text and/or graphics by voice | √ | √ | — |
| Advanced Custom Commands | Create or import sophisticated and powerful voice commands (with or without VBA-style scripting) to automate routine tasks | √ | — | — |
| Enterprise Administration | Enterprise profile management with user profiles centralised on the network; remote management of word lists, profiles and custom vocabulary; security features for custom commands; MSI installation; ability to import/export custom commands in the Command Browser; ability to have multiple vocabularies and import/export them New: new profile-opening convenience for large sites |
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| Transcription Tools | Includes option to save synchronised audio from dictation done in DragonPad, Word, WordPerfect and OpenOffice Writer (Dragon saves a .dra file along with the transcribed text file); includes Auto-Transcribe Folder Agent (monitors a specific directory to automatically launch transcription; can provide a synchronised audio file along with the transcript for deferred correction) and Correction Only mode (correctionist can turn on the Correction Only setting within the original dictator’s profile) | √ | — | — |
| Legal Vocabulary | Includes legal-specific words and terms; ability to format legal citations (US English only) | — | — | — |
*** Full Text Control allows you to use voice to perform direct dictation, selection, correction, and cursor movement within text. Menu Tracking provides the ability to use voice to "click" an application's menus, buttons, dialog boxes, etc. Natural Language Commands let you state your intent within a specific application instead of following the menu-selection and mouse steps of the Windows interface.