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Nuance announces 2 new versions of Dragon Professional – Dragon Professional Individual 14, and Dragon Professional Group 13.5. This post will focus primarily on Dragon Professional Individual 14. Nuance has split their Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 13 product into 2 different products: Dragon Professional Individual & Dragon Professional Group. Dragon Professional Individual has been attributed the version number 14, whereas Dragon Professional Group holds a version number of 13.5.

NOTE: This post does not concern Dragon® Medical Practice Edition, nor any upgrades (such as Dragon® Medical Practice Edition 3). Details regarding a new version of Dragon® Medical Practice Edition is presently unknown.

Dragon Professional Individual versus Dragon Professional Group

What Is Really New in Dragon Professional Individual 14?

• Support for Windows 10: Nuance has already stated that Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 is compatible with Windows 10.
• Advanced, time-saving commands: the full set of custom command creation capability is already present in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 13, although it is not available in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Premium 13.
• Powerful, personal customization: again, this level of vocabulary customization is already present in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 13, and not available in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Premium 13.
• Dragon Anywhere integration: Dragon Anywhere is an exciting new mobile application, enabling users of iOS and android devices to transcribe their voice into text as well as edit and correct documents on their mobile devices. If you purchase Dragon Anywhere (available later this year), your custom text commands and word lists may be synchronized.
• This is a truly outstanding feature, but be aware that at this time, this cloud-based service is located within the United States of America, and even though your data is encrypted, it is still no longer protected by UKprivacy laws and will fall under the jurisdiction of the United States of America, including the Patriot Act.
• Transcription options: another new feature, Dragon Professional Individual is now capable of transcribing an individual speaker’s recording without traditional Dragon training. However, as always, quality of audio will impact accuracy, and there will be little to no punctuation (or paragraphs) unless they are dictated.
• Even easier to use: Nuance has revamped the help files.
• In conclusion, the Dragon Anywhere integration is likely to be the most useful feature. The new transcription options may be of interest to some users.

What Has Been Removed from Dragon Professional Individual That Was in Dragon Professional 13?

• Dragon Professional Individual will no longer include a basic headset. Dictaphones.co.uk often provides superior microphones (wired and wireless) according to the user’s needs, so this is not a tremendous loss.
• Dragon Professional Individual will no longer include the Roaming User feature (the ability to synchronize a user profile across multiple computers).
• Administrative Settings have been removed
• An MSI installation is no longer available
• The Data Distribution Tool has been removed, and will no longer allow for deploying customized vocabularies and commands to multiple Dragon users.
• The ability to run Dragon on a Remote Desktop Connection has been removed.
• Export and import custom words with all formatting and properties in place.
• Advanced custom commands for controlling your computer as well as producing text with lists or navigable voice fields. These custom commands can also be exported and imported.
• Save your voice with your dictation for deferred correction.
• Transcribe a single speaker’s voice from pre-recorded dictation. There are certain limitations such as accuracy, and lack of punctuation and paragraphs.
• Auto Transcribe Folder Agent allows for automatic transcription of voice recordings.
• Support for individual Dragon Anywhere accounts for synchronization between custom word lists and text commands between Dragon Professional Individual and Dragon Anywhere.

Current Dragon NaturallySpeaking Premium 12 or 13 Users - Should You Upgrade to Dragon Professional Individual 14?

Current Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 12 Users

Current Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 13 Users

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