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Nuance's New Cross-Device Dragon Speech Recognition Solutions Harness the Cloud to Drive Professional Productivity
[August 18, 2015]

Nuance's New Cross-Device Dragon Speech Recognition Solutions Harness the Cloud to Drive Professional Productivity


Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN) today announced a new portfolio of Dragon speech recognition solutions, including the new Dragon Anywhere mobile app for iOS and Android, the new Dragon Professional Individual and Dragon for Mac desktop solutions, and Dragon Professional Group with the Nuance (News - Alert) User Management Center for group and corporate deployments. These new products are, for the first time, enabling seamless synchronization of key Dragon features across PC, Mac, iOS, and Android (News - Alert) through the cloud, ensuring that organizations and individual professionals can remain productive wherever work takes them, by accessing a consistent, customized dictation experience on any device.

Many companies, organizations and individual professionals across industries, including legal, public safety, social services, and education, face critical, yet time-consuming documentation and reporting demands that too often lead to paperwork backlog, missed reporting deadlines or noncompliance. In addition, documentation inefficiencies can force professionals to focus too much time on typing and too little time on clients and core business activities that drive growth and profitability.

The innovative solutions in the new Dragon portfolio empower professionals and organizations to work smarter and more productively - in the office and on the go - with fast, accurate dictation and transcription, advanced customization, seamless integration across devices, and centralized management of multi-user and enterprise deployments. As a result, professionals can complete documentation tasks more efficiently from any location with a personalized speech recognition experience customized for how they work and what they say.

"The time-consuming nature of documentation and paperwork can place considerable productivity constraints on organizations and individual professionals alike," said Peter Mahoney, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Dragon. "By expanding our Dragon portfolio, we are extending the benefits of robust speech recognition and transcription across the workforce. Now, organizations can better manage their speech deployments, professionals can increase their productivity in the office, and field workers can complete their documentation in a more timely and convenient manner."

Dragon Anywhere

Nuance today unveiled the new, cloud-based Dragon Anywhere mobile app that enables professionals to dictate and voice-edit documents of any length directly on their iOS or Android device. Dragon Anywhere provides professional-grade dictation that lets users create and edit complete documents, reports, client forms, and detailed notes - using customized vocabulary, voice shortcuts and frequently-used text (or auto-text) commands - to keep up with documentation demands in the field. Dragon Anywhere automatically synchronizes custom words and auto-texts with Dragon for Mac or Dragon Professional Individual desktop editions to enable seamless productivity in the office or on the go. And Dragon Anywhere adapts to a user's voice within the first few minutes of use, so there is no training required.

Dragon for groups and the enterprise

The latest enterprise-ready Dragon solution includes Dragon Professional Group speech recognition software, Dragon Anywhere for mobile employees, the Nuance User Management Center for centralized administration, usage tracking and licnse management, and goal-driven training and project management services. This complete solution can be deployed quickly and effectively to meet specific enterprise requirements and drive professional productivity across an organization.



The new Nuance User Management Center enables enterprises to track employee usage of Dragon Professional Group, redistribute licenses based on employee use, and manage or share customizations, including custom words, commands and auto-texts, across multiple Dragon users. Dragon Professional Group also supports Citrix (News - Alert) virtualized environments for published applications. For added flexibility, Dragon Anywhere can be deployed and managed across an organization as part of a corporate license, enabling enterprise customers to empower employees with professional-grade mobile dictation for significant productivity gains in the office or on the road.

Dragon Professional Individual


Dragon Professional Individual is an all-new version of Dragon for PC, enabling fast, easy and accurate dictation and transcription of documents, notes and reports with a fully customizable experience that optimizes productivity at work. With advanced capabilities for customizing words, automating repetitive tasks, and creating auto-texts to insert frequently-used text - all by voice - Dragon Professional Individual makes it easy to dictate, edit and format documents, spreadsheets, presentations or emails, fill out forms, or simply reduce the physical stress of typing. Integration with the new Dragon Anywhere mobile app lets professionals continue documentation work - using all of their custom words and commands - on their desktop or mobile device for seamless productivity from any location.

Dragon for Mac

The new Dragon for Mac brings powerful, professional-grade speech recognition to Mac users. Upgraded with the latest Nuance speech recognition technology, it delivers greater speed and higher accuracy than Dragon Dictate 4 and previous Mac versions. In addition, a redesigned user interface makes it easier to access key features, get vocabulary recommendations, and add custom words and commands. Dragon for Mac enables professionals to dictate reports, spreadsheets, emails, and other documentation quickly and accurately, while advanced transcription converts any single-speaker audio file into an editable document. The ability to synchronize Dragon for Mac with the new Dragon Anywhere mobile app lets professionals continue working on documents at the office or on the road to be more productive anywhere.

Availability and Pricing

Dragon Professional Group and the Nuance User Management Center are currently available in English in the US, UK and Australia. Additional details can be found here.

Dragon Professional Individual will be available for download in English in the US, UK and Australia for $300.00 in late August 2015, and shipping in September 2015. Dragon Professional Individual is available to users upgrading from Dragon Professional, versions 12 and higher, for $150.00, and for $200.00 for users upgrading from Dragon Premium, versions 12 and higher. Additional details can be found here.

Dragon for Mac will be available for download in English in the US, UK and Australia for $200.00 in early September 2015, with special upgrade pricing of $99.99 for registered users of Dragon Dictate for Mac, versions 3 and higher. Additional details can be found here.

Dragon Anywhere for iOS and Android will be available in English in the US and UK as a subscription-based application in fall 2015. More information can be found here.

Additional language versions of all Dragon products will be available later this year.

Media information and multimedia collateral are available via the Dragon Press Kit.

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About Nuance Communications (News - Alert), 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.

Nuance, Dragon and the Nuance logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States of America and/or other countries. All other company names or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.


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