Nuance claims that this version of Dragon leverages “deep learning” to improve accuracy., it seems like a more powerful extension of the way Dragon already created speech models for each user. Boasting improvements in accuracy of either 15 or 24 percent (the company has cited both of these numbers), Nuance claims that Dragon offers “up to 99% recognition accuracy.” Naturally, “up to” covers a wide range of results, but this version of Dragon does seem more accurate than version 5. I, pointing out that “Dragon offers some of the biggest changes since this software was first introduced, both under the hood and on the screen.” Building on the changes made to the speech recognition engine in Dragon 5, Nuance has improved Dragon’s performance across the board. Another year, another upgrade to Nuance’s ($300 $150 upgrade), their speech recognition solution.
