Dragon® Professional 15 for PC Dragon Professional for Lawyers, Business, and Accessiblity The fastest way to streamline legal documentation and improve costs, simply by speaking. The Dragon Professional V15 makes what the software is actually doing look simple. Nuance has had to complete, analyze, design, and implement an astonishing array of considerations and data in their research to make Dragon 15 look like a finger snap.

Documentation enhancements

The Help content on Accuracy Tuning has been improved to better explain the importance and benefits of performing Accuracy Tuning.

General enhancements

Optional Google Analytics usage data collection

Previously, Dragon's optional Data Collection feature sent transcripts and audio data from your Dragon user profiles to Nuance through a scheduled task. In this release, audio data collection has been discontinued, and usage data is collected using Google Analytics.

Enabling the User Experience Collection feature collects Google Analytics metrics on how you use Dragon. Our researchers analyze the anonymized data to prioritize features and improve the performance and usability of future Dragon releases. This also leads to improved technical support and online help. No personal information is ever collected, and you can stop participating at any time.

If enabled, metrics are collected continually. As a result, the option to configure the scheduled task for Data Collection has been removed from the Administrative Settings>Scheduled Tasks tab.

You can opt in or out of User Experience Collection when you create your user profile, or at any time later on the Options dialog box—Data page. You can also enable User Experience Collection for all user profiles in the Administrative Settings dialog box—Scheduled Tasks tab.

For more information, see About User Experience Collection.

Installation/upgrade enhancements

Uninstalling Dragon no longer includes option to uninstall user profiles

When you uninstall Dragon, the uninstallation process no longer prompts you with the option to uninstall your user profiles automatically. Your user profiles now remain on your computer after uninstalling Dragon unless you remove them manually.

For information on uninstalling your user profiles manually, see Manually removing user profiles after uninstalling Dragon.

Upgrade process now uninstalls the previous version automatically

When you upgrade to Dragon version 15.5, the upgrade process now uninstalls your previous Dragon version automatically. You no longer need to uninstall your current Dragon version before you upgrade.

For more information, see the Upgrade instructions section in this topic.

Security enhancements

System optimizations have been made to improve Dragon's security and resiliency.

User profile enhancements

New user profile locations

Previously, user profiles were located in the ProgramData folder. To ensure that user profile data remains secure and access is restricted to the user or to an administrator, user profiles are now located in the %AppData% folder.

The following issues have been resolved in version 15.6.

Microsoft Outlook issues

• Dragon no longer terminates unexpectedly when both the STP software add-in and Outlook add-in are active.

General issues

• The default hot key to transfer text from the Dictation Box to an application has changed. Previously, the default value was CTRL-Shift-T. In this release, the value is now Alt-T.

  The Help has been updated to reflect this change.

• Dragon now launches applications successfully when you use custom desktop shortcuts.

Other issues

For Dragon to analyze your Yahoo mail using the Learn From Sent Emails functionality, you must first generate a unique Yahoo password to use with Dragon. Do the following:

1. Sign-in to your Yahoo account and open your Yahoo account security page: Account > Account Info > Account Security.
2. From the Account Security page, click Generate App password.
3. Click Select your app > Other App and type the name Dragon.This will generate a password - make sure to copy the password for the next step.
4. Use this password and your Yahoo email address to sign in to your email app when prompted on the Learn from sent e-mail screen.

For more information, see https://help.yahoo.com/kb/generate-third-party-passwords-sln15241.html.

You can upgrade to Dragon version 15.6—full build from the following versions:

• 14
• 15
• 15.3

You can also use these instructions if you are a new Dragon customer installing Dragon for the first time.

Dragon version 15.6—full build is supported for all languages (ENX, DEU, FRA, ITA, ESP, NLD).

1. Close any open programs.
2. If you’re running an anti-virus program, turn it off until the installation completes.
3. Do one of the following:
• Insert the DVD. The installation begins immediately.

If the installation does not start automatically, browse to setup.exe on the DVD and double-click to run it.

• Download setup.exe or Dragon.exe, then double-click to run the installer. The installation begins immediately and the requested files are downloaded and installed.
4. If prompted, install the Microsoft .NET Framework.

You may need to restart the computer after installing the .NET Framework.

5. In the Dragon InstallShield wizard, click Next to begin the Dragon installation.
6. Read the license terms and click the radio button to indicate you agree to the terms.
7. Click Next to proceed to the next screen.
8. Enter the product serial number, then click Next.
9. Select your region and, optionally, select the Advanced check box to change the installation directory.
10. Click Next.
1. If you selected the Advanced check box, installation directory, click Change.
2. Browse to the directory where you want to install Dragon.
3. Click Next.
11. Click Install.

The installation begins.

Activate Dragon

The first time you start Dragon, you are prompted to activate the product. If you skip activation, you can launch Dragon in Trial mode five times. After five launches, you must activate Dragon to continue using the product.

These instructions assume you have an internet connection available on the computer where you installed Dragon.

1. Launch Dragon.

   The Activation dialog box appears.

2. Select Activate Product, and then click Next.

3. Dragon prepopulates the field with your serial number. Click Next to continue.

4. Click Finish.

   Dragon is activated.

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Dragon Professional 15 Spanish

Dragon NaturallySpeaking (also known as Dragon for PC, or DNS)^[1] is a speech recognition software package developed by Dragon Systems of Newton, Massachusetts, which was acquired first by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products and later by Nuance Communications. It runs on Windowspersonal computers. Version 15 (Professional Individual and Legal Individual),^[2] which supports 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, 8 and 10, was released in August 2016.^[3][4] The macOS version is called Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, version 6^[5] or Dragon for Mac.

Features[edit]

Dragon NaturallySpeaking uses a minimal user interface. As an example, dictated words appear in a floating tooltip as they are spoken (though there is an option to suppress this display to increase speed), and when the speaker pauses, the program transcribes the words into the active window at the location of the cursor. (Dragon does not support dictating to background windows.) The software has three primary areas of functionality: voice recognition in dictation with speech transcribed as written text, recognition of spoken commands, and text-to-speech: speaking text content of a document. Voice profiles can be accessed by different computers in a networked environment, although the audio hardware and configuration must be identical to those of the machine generating the configuration. The Professional version allows creation of custom commands to control programs or functions not built into NaturallySpeaking.

History[edit]

Dr. James Baker laid out the description of a speech understanding system called DRAGON in 1975.^[6] In 1982 he and Dr. Janet M. Baker, his wife, founded Dragon Systems to release products centered around their voice recognition prototype.^[7] He was President of the company and she was CEO.

DragonDictate was first released for DOS, and utilized hidden Markov models, a probabilistic method for temporal pattern recognition. At the time, the hardware was not powerful enough to address the problem of word segmentation, and DragonDictate was unable to determine the boundaries of words during continuous speech input. Users were forced to enunciate one word at a time, clearly separated by a small pause after each word. DragonDictate was based on a trigram model, and is known as a discrete utterance speech recognition engine.^[8]

Dragon Professional 15 Voice Recorder

Dragon Systems released NaturallySpeaking 1.0 as their first continuous dictation product in 1997.^[9]

Joel Gould was the director of emerging technologies at Dragon Systems. Gould was the principal architect and lead engineer for the development of Dragon NaturallyOrganized (1.0), Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile Organizer (3.52), Dragon NaturallySpeaking (1.0 through 2.02), and DragonDictate for Windows (1.0). Gould also designed the tutorials in both DragonDictate for DOS version 2.0 and Dragon Talk.^{[citation needed]}

The company was then purchased in June 2000 by Lernout & Hauspie, a Belgium-based corporation that was subsequently found to have been perpetrating financial fraud.^[10] Following the all-share deal advised by Goldman Sachs, Lernout & Hauspie declared bankruptcy in November 2000. The deal was not originally supposed to be all stock and the unavailability of the Goldman Sachs team to advise concerning the change in terms was one of the grounds of the Bakers' subsequent lawsuit. The Bakers had received stock worth hundreds of millions of US dollars, but were only able to sell a few million dollars' worth before the stock lost all its value as a result of the accounting fraud. The Bakers sued Goldman Sachs for negligence, intentional misrepresentation and breach of fiduciary duty, which in January 2013 led to a 23-day trial in Boston. The jury cleared Goldman Sachs of all charges.^[11] Following the bankruptcy of Lernout & Hauspie, the rights to the Dragon product line were acquired by ScanSoft of Burlington, Massachusetts, also a Goldman Sachs client. In 2005 ScanSoft launched a de facto acquisition of Nuance Communications, and rebranded itself as Nuance.^[12]

As of 2012 LG Smart TVs include voice recognition feature powered by the same speech engine as Dragon NaturallySpeaking.^[13]

Versions[edit]

Dragon Professional 15 Review

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 is available in the following languages: UK English, US English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Japanese (aka 'Dragon Speech 11' in Japan).

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Sarnataro, Valerie (2012-11-08). 'Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) 12 Review'. technologyguide.com. Technology Guide. Retrieved 2013-07-25.
2. ^'Nuance Announces Major New Releases of Dragon for Windows and Mac OS X'. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
3. ^'Nuance product support for Microsoft Windows Vista'. Archived from the original on 2009-12-15. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
4. ^'Nuance product support for Microsoft Windows 7'. 2010. Retrieved 16 Aug 2010.
5. ^'Nuance Announces Major New Releases of Dragon for Windows and Mac OS X'. 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
6. ^Baker, James K. (1975). 'The DRAGON System - An Overview'. IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. 23 (1): 24–29. doi:10.1109/TASSP.1975.1162650.
7. ^'History of Speech Recognition and Transcription Software'. Retrieved 2013-07-12.
8. ^'DragonDictate product information'. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
9. ^'Dragon NaturallySpeaking 1.0 released'. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
10. ^'Dragon Systems purchased by Lernout & Hauspie'. New York Times. 2001-05-07. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
11. ^'Goldman Is Cleared Over a Sale Gone Awry'. New York Times. 2013-01-23. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
12. ^'ScanSoft and Nuance to Merge'. 2005-05-09. Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
13. ^'Samsung and LG smart TVs share your voice data behind the fine print'. ConsumerReports. 2015-02-09. Retrieved 2016-06-10.

External links[edit]

• Official website for Nuance Communications

Dragon Professional Individual