Dragon today
Dragon Professional is at version 16, “optimized for Windows 11” and still working on Windows 10, according to Nuance. Nuance says it reaches “up to 99% recognition accuracy, right from first use”. There are versions for particular trades, such as Dragon Legal.
What's changed is how you get it. Nuance's page for Dragon Professional shows no price: licensing is through “Contact us”, and it's pitched at professionals and teams. There's no cheaper home edition on the page.
Side by side
| Dragon Professional | rawflo | |
|---|---|---|
| Speech to text | Nuance's own speech engine | Deepgram Nova-3 |
| Getting it | Licensed through Nuance: its page lists no price, only “Contact us” | Sign up on rawflo.com, free for 14 days, then by card |
| Built for | Professionals and teams; versions for particular trades | Anyone who dictates: drafts, notes, prompts for AI tools |
| Your words | Up to 99% accuracy from first use, Nuance says | Exactly what the speech model hears, nothing rewritten |
| One recording | Not stated by Nuance | Up to an hour, waiting through 2 minutes of quiet |
| The practical bits | ||
| Cost | Not listed | $5 US a month with 5 hours, then $1 US an hour up to a limit you set |
| Windows | 11, and 10 | 10 and 11 |
| Languages | Not stated by Nuance | English (Australia, US, UK, New Zealand, India) |
Which to use
Stay with Dragon
If your firm already licenses it, you rely on a trade version like Dragon Legal, or your work is set up around it. It's a professional tool, and it's built for that.
Use rawflo to just dictate
No licence to arrange. Press a key, talk, pause to think, press it again: your exact words land where you're typing.
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