Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Feature Matrix

The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Feature Comparison Matrices detail which features are available in each Dragon NaturallySpeaking product.

Feature Comparison by Product Edition
Feature Description Language Legal Pro Prem Home Basics Recorder
Recognition Accuracy

Turns your voice into text with up to 99% accuracy

New: up to 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)

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Recognition Speed

Words appear on the screen three times faster than typing

New: Faster response times for commands; multi-core support makes use of machines with multi-core architecture

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
System Configuration

Installation automatically detects available PC resources (CPU, Processor Cache, RAM) and configures system for optimal use.

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Correction

Correct text by voice

New: Enhanced Correction Menu and Spelling Window; new “don’t recognize that word” command; Dragon “learns” from edits, including keyboard edits, faster than ever before

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Accuracy Tuning

Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer; ability to analyze selected documents and email; includes “Nothing But Speech” filter to automatically eliminate um/ah utterances

New: Enhanced Accuracy Center with focus on ease of use

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Dictation Box

Ability to create, modify, and correct text within text fields or applications where Dragon does not have Full Text Control

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
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 enrollment and microphone check

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes,  the Recorder edition has a DragonBar user interface, but many of the menu items associated with dictation are not available in the Recorder edition.
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>”

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, the Recorder edition does include Help, but it does not include the Tutorial.
Editing and Formatting Text

Format text by voice; Quick Voice Formatting (commands to delete/bold/underline/italicize/capitalize/copy/cut text)

New: Handle multiple instances of a word or phrase in your text

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
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

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Application Support: Web

Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox: Menu Tracking and Natural Language Commands

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.

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Application Support:
Word Processing

Yes Word 2003, 2007 and 2010; WordPad XP, Vista, Windows 7; and DragonPad (word processor included in Dragon): Full Text Control, Menu Tracking, and Natural Language Commands

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.

Yes OpenOffice Writer 3.1, 3.2: Full Text Control

Yes WordPerfect X3, X4, X5 (English and French only): Full Text Control, Menu Tracking, and English Natural Language Commands

New: WordPerfect X5 and Word 2010 (Natural Language Commands in English only)

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Application Support:

Email

Yes Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010; Outlook Express v6; Windows Mail v6; and Windows Live Mail v14: Full Text Control, Menu Tracking, and Natural Language Commands

Yes Mozilla Thunderbird: Menu Tracking, and Natural Language Commands

New: Outlook 2010 (Natural Language Commands in English only)

All Yes Yes Yes Yes

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)

All

Yes Yes Yes

Application Support: Presentations

PowerPoint 2003, 2007 and 2010: Menu Tracking, and English Natural Language Commands

New: PowerPoint 2010

All

Yes Yes Yes
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

All Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

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

All Yes Yes Yes Yes

Text to Speech

A synthesized voice reads out loud text you designate

All Yes Yes Yes Yes

Advanced Correction / Editing

Ability to playback your speech in documents

New: Improved playback functionality and options

All Yes Yes Yes
Multiple Dictation Sources Ability to create multiple dictation sources (more than one type of audio input device) sharing a vocabulary All Yes Yes Yes

Mobile Dictation

Allows transcription from digital recorders

New: Reduced enrollment reading time to 4 minutes; direct support for recordings in .dss and .dss2 file formats

All Yes Yes Yes Yes

Wireless Dictation

Specific Bluetooth wireless acoustic model

All Yes Yes Yes

Administration

Ability to import/export custom word lists and user profiles

All Yes Yes Yes

Text and Graphics Custom Commands

Easily create or import commands to insert frequently used text and/or graphics by voice

All Yes Yes Yes

Advanced Custom Commands

Create or import sophisticated and powerful voice commands (with or without VBA-style scripting) to automate routine tasks

All Yes Yes

Enterprise Administration

Enterprise profile management with user profiles centralized 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

All Yes Yes Yes

Transcription Tools

Includes option to save synchronized 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 synchronized audio file along with the transcript for deferred correction) and Correction Only mode (correctionists can create a “No dictation available” profile without any audio setup)

All Yes Yes

Legal Vocabulary

Includes legal-specific words and terms; ability to format legal citations (US English only)

US English, French,
German

Yes

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