Dragon Professional Group Documentation Productivity for the Enterprise Improve documentation quality, turnaround and costs Empower employees to create high-quality documentation faster and more efficiently, while saving your business time and money with Dragon Professional Group, the enterprise-ready speech recognition solution.

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Dragon Speech
Recognition Solutions
Dragon Professional 15 Group –Enterprise Ready 15 (ESD)

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– The documentation challenge
– Nuance’s Dragon speech recognition solutions
– Dragon for the PC
– Dragon Professional Group
– What’s new?
Agenda

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The documentation challenge
Businesses/agencies face significant
document requirements…
Police officers face “overwhelming” amounts of reporting work that curtail
their time on the street*
Too much time spent on inefficient
paperwork …
Social workers spend 30-60% of time on administrative work**
Impacts to productivity, client service
delivery, cost-recovery…
* ” Paperwork Overwhelming Cops,” Chronical Herald, 8/24/12
** The Social Work Survey 2014-5, Liquid Personnel

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– Drive documentation productivity and accuracy by using your voice on your PC or
Mac
– Increase quality of service and customer satisfaction from more accurate, more
thorough, and timely documentation
– Reduce documentation costs associated with outside transcription services,
overtime or overall inefficiency
– Free up time for higher value tasks and boost your bottom line
Spend more time on activities that boost the
bottom line

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– For Corporate professional users
who need fast, accurate dictation
and high-performance speech
recognition features, such as custom
vocabulary and commands, to
improve their documentation
productivity
– Meet your unique business needs
where ever your job takes you
– Supports Citrix environment too
Next-generation speech technology at work
Windows

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– Smarter next-generation speech recognition solution
empowers busy professionals to complete documentation
and reporting quickly and accurately on the PC
– Spend more time on activities that boost the bottom line.
– Leverages the latest in Deep Learning technology
– constantly learns and adapts to your unique voice
and environmental variations—even while you’re
dictating—to deliver new levels of personalized
accuracy and productivity.
Put next-generation speech technology to
work
Dragon Professional, v15

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– Faster and more accurate than ever, with next-generation speech recognition technology that
continues to adapt to your voice even while you’re dictating
– Create, format and edit by voice quickly and efficiently in the latest applications
– Easily create custom words such as proper names and specific industry terminology
– Create custom voice commands to insert frequently-used text and graphics
– Use a Nuance-approved digital recorder to capture thoughts on the go for later automatic
transcription
– Work easily on popular form factors such as portable touchscreen PCs
– Command and control your computer by voice in ergonomic, hands-free comfort
– Even easier to get started with contextual guidance tailored to your usage
Key features
Dragon Professional 15

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What’s new
Dragon Professional 15

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What’s new summary
Feature Win 15 Mac 6
New next-generation Deep Learning engine, up to 10%
more accurate out of the gate
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Formatting and other recognition improvements  
Optimized for form factors, such as portable
touchscreens
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Improved user interface and experience  
Enhanced transcription  
Expanded application support  
Improved Help, & contextual tips  

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Faster and more accurate than ever
– Up to 15% improved accuracy out of the box without training
– Continuous learning—even during dictation—for individually adapted accuracy
improvements that enhance the user experience
– Optimal accuracy achieved for speakers with accents or in slight noisy
environments such as in a cubicle environment.
– Central user administration made easy.
The Nuance Management Center makes it easy to track employee usage of
Dragon, redistribute licenses based on usage, and manage or share
customizations, including custom words, commands and auto-texts, across
multiple users.
Next-generation speech engine with Deep Learning technology

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Format and other recognition improvements
– Number and email address recognition, for example:
– “three double two five” -> “3225”
– “two point five million” -> “2.5 million”
– “oh point five” -> “0.5”
– “quarter of five” -> “4:45”
– “eight pounds fifty” -> “£8.50”
– “rajesh at Icons dot net dot in” -> rajesh@icons.net.in
– Other improvements
– Better overall handling of Roman numerals
– Dictionaries for other products used to improve Dragon
– Large number of place names added
Based more on how we speak to minimize editing

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Nuance Management Center
Centralized user administration made easy

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Optimized for portable touchscreens
– Improved touch experience on Windows 10 tablets or tablet mode
– Improved ability to open and interact with the DragonBar by touch
– Ideal for today’s new PCs, including highly mobile devices with hybrid touch
and keyboard interaction modes
– Add custom words to meet your business needs.
Personalize Dragon’s vocabulary to include the industry-specific terms or
acronyms your employees use daily. Once custom words or word lists have
been created and added, share them with other Dragon users for even higher
dictation accuracy and faster document turnaround.
Experience new levels of documentation productivity on the go

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Improved setup
– No transcription setup option needed
– No smartphone option needed (since built-in mic is already supported along
with numerous other microphone options)
– Adding a new mic source is faster than ever with no additional training
requirement
Simplified microphone selection for easier setup

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Improved user interface & experience
– Improved “Options” menu, with relevant options and settings consolidated into
one easy-to-use dialog box. Menu selections include for example:
– License management
– Profile management
– Auto-formatting options
– Improved browser experience
– Detects when a web extension or plugin is not active and notifies the user
with information on how to install it
Makes powerful features easier to discover and use

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Enhanced transcription
– Simplified user interface and better speaker management
– No training is required for transcription; no longer need to initially transcribe and
correct a short 90-second clip
– Acoustic and language model adaptation are automatically leveraged for
the current user
– No training is required for third-party transcription; there is also better
separation of current user data versus third-party speaker data
– If you will be frequently transcribing a particular third-party, the Help
feature will guide you through creating a separate profile for that speaker
– Fast, post-recognition process automatically applies basic punctuation that is
not dictated to give you a head start as you review or correct your transcription
results
Simplified steps, while leveraging accuracy improvements from
new engine

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Updated web & application support
– Support for Full Text Control (Enhanced Dictation), fully voice-driven editing
and command capabilities, within the latest business applications. New support
include:
– WordPerfect X8
– Skype for Business

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Improved help & contextual tips
– Helpful tips, triggered by first-time actions when the mic is on, such as:
– Explaining Enhanced Dictation when user is in a supported application
– Tip to say “scratch that” when user hits backspace
– Browser help when user first enters web applications such as any webpage, Google Docs, Gmail,
Web Word, or Outlook.com
– Tips for working with the dictation box
– Tips for working in tablet mode
– Improved online Help:
– Enhanced Help that gives users easier access to top searches
– Changing content on main help page with highly used topics
– Short tutorial videos integrated in Help for areas of high interest
– New troubleshooting sections
– Expanded navigational text that gives users more information/context
– More task-based dialog box help
Get up to speed quickly or maximize the power of Dragon

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System requirements
– RAM: Minimum 4 GB
– CPU: Intel® dual core or equivalent AMD processor. Faster processors yield faster performance
– Free hard disk space: 4GB (8GB download)
– Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, 8.1, 10 (32- and 64-bit); Windows Server 2008 R2 & 2012 R2
– Internet Explorer 11 or higher or the current version of Chrome or Firefox
– A sound card supporting 16-bit recording
– A DVD-ROM drive for installation
– Built-in microphone or a Nuance-approved microphone. See support.nuance.com/compatibility for more
information
– An Internet connection for automatic product activation (a quick anonymous process) and access to
Online Help
– Citrix® virtualized environments Deploy on Citrix XenApp® or Citrix XenDesktop® servers where the
target application resides, enabling users to dictate from workstations that do not have Dragon installed on
them.
Note: Does not support dictation into Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems. For EMR support, please
use Dragon Medical Practice Edition.

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