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Dragon Legal Individual 15, Dictate Documents and Control your PC – all by Voice, [PC Disc] with Bluetooth Headset

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  • Trained using more than 400 million words from legal documents to deliver optimal recognition accuracy for dictation of legal terms right from the start
  • Expands the possibilities of speech recognition innovation with a next generation speech engine that delivers up to 99 percent speech recognition accuracy
  • Easily learns acronyms, proper names and other unique or business specific phrases
  • Supports nuance approved digital voice recorders and smartphones for advanced recording functionality and can automatically transcribe the audio files to text back at your PC
  • Sync with the new dragon anywhere mobile solution that allows you to create and edit documents of any length by voice directly on your ios and android device

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.65 x 5 x 1.5 inches; 0.01 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ A509A-GN9-15.0
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ August 25, 2016
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Nuance Communications, Inc.
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01L0COG1U
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

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Product Description

Designed specifically for the legal industry, the all new Dragon Legal Individual, v15, a smarter next generation speech recognition solution for the PC empowers attorneys and other legal professionals to speed document turnaround and reduce transcription costs. Leveraging the latest Deep Learning technology, Dragon constantly learns and adapts to your unique voice and environmental variations to help you achieve new levels of personalized productivity and accuracy. A specialized legal vocabulary trained using more than 400 million words from legal documents enables you to quickly create and format case files, contracts, or briefs all by voice. Powerful customization, fast, accurate transcription and automatic formatting of legal citations further boost efficiency so you spend more time on serving clients and growing your practice. Note: Headset model shipped may vary.

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P. MSakamoto
3.0 out of 5 stars OK but overpriced
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2023
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I tried this out and it works well enough, I tested it out on a reasonably powerful Dell quad core i7 laptop and it ran fine, but it didn't do enough better than my iPhone or my Mac laptops voice recognition on most short documents to warrant the cost. Where this software shines is when you want to make longer legal documents in Word. Then it has some utility for vocabulary and pre loaded words. The voice customization did not seem to be super impressive vs. the latest iPhone.

The thing that is really disappointing is the lack of updates over time. Not clear how well this is currently supported. Now that I am back to using Mac, I guess I won't find out more.
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Susie Q.
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent dictation tool
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2019
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I have been very pleased with the performance of this software. Diction is substantially faster for me than typing. It does take a little bit of time to adjust to speaking the punctuation, but it's not too difficult to do. The software comes with a bluetooth microphone that can be worn over the ear, but it also works well with the built-in microphone on my laptop.

My one complaint is that the Dragon toolbar sometimes gets in the way. It minimizes when your mouse is away from it (which is good), but if you go to close a window or change an internet tab, sometimes it will automatically expand and get in the way of what you need to do.

It comes fully equipped to handle a full legal library of terminology. It may take a little bit of time for it to learn your voice, but the more you use it, the fewer errors it makes. I would definitely recommend proofing it when you are finished in order to correct any word choice errors.

I personally think it's a great resource and that it will continue to save me time for years to come.
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Jacopo
5.0 out of 5 stars Huge improvement over the Dragon I remember from fifteen years ago; works great
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2019
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It's been about fifteen years since I last used Dragon software. I can remember doing hours and hours of reading to try to train it to my voice, so it would be effective for medical transcription. It would work pretty well back then, and from trying out Dragon Legal, it has improved significantly over the last fifteen years. Dragon Legal is designed specifically for the legal industry. As someone who works for a law firm and a former legal assistant, I can see the value of this. Like the medical industry, the legal industry has a lot of unique phrases (mostly Latin) and references that could benefit from transcription software. I think most medium to large law firms now use templates that are built into their case management software, but the software can especially be useful for litigation attorneys or smaller firms that draft a lot of their own custom legal pleadings.

As to install, set up was much easier than past products and I was ready to go very quickly. Dragon Legal comes with a DVD, but if you don't have a DVD drive you can still download it from their web site. No more hours and hours of training my voice. Simply read a small paragraph to ensure the microphone is calibrated correctly and you are ready to start. The software is very simple to figure out. The DragonBar is self explanatory and just navigating through the options on it tells you everything you need to know. There is a tutorial that I skipped and just jumped straight into the product. Speech recognition is great, and I would say is probably about 98% accurate for basic non-legal terminology. I tried out the transcription features on several letters that I frequently write. I am a fairly fast typer so it was about on par with my typing speed, but the great thing is that I had less typos from the voice recognition than from the typing. The only part of this I didn't like was that it doesn't offer real-time transcription, meaning that the software doesn't immediately display the words on your screen. Instead, after you speak a phrase, it then transcribes it as a block of text, and you may see ten words show up as once. I got used to this after awhile though and it didn't bother me and I was able to go at a pretty fast pace. My favorite feature with the transcription is that I can set up macros. So I set one up for our law firm's name, which has five last names in it and has always taken awhile to write out. Since I usually have to type this phrase 20-30+ times a day, it is nice I could replace it with "my company" and have the software automatically include it.

I will say that if you are not used to voice recognition software, it will take some getting used to to become familiar with formatting a document, especially a legal document. Our courts have specific formatting requirements regarding font size, spacing, margins, etc. I also make very frequent use of tab indention and bulleted lists. It would be nice if Dragon could recognize (like Amazon's Echo can) questions and declaratory statements and automatically insert punctuation, but maybe that is for a future version. Until then, it is not a problem to state "period" at the end of a sentence when done speaking.

One of the features in Dragon Legal that I love is its ability to transcribe audio files. Although I don't have much of a use for it, this could really be great for transcribing depositions or possibly for a Court Reporter to use (although not sure if the court would allow that). The only problem is that the source file needs to include formatting comments (period, new paragraph, etc.) for it to really work, but can be useful if you want to dictate notes in the car on your way to the office, allowing you to bill your hourly for that time.
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SanjeevP
3.0 out of 5 stars Legal Transcription Robot – buy the Version Without Bluetooth Headset
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2018
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I have used Dragon for speech recognition since mid-nineties when it was called DragonDictate and when I called for tech support, the founders' doctors Janet and Jim Baker came on the phone themselves. Dragon NaturallySpeaking was introduced sometime in the late nineteen nineties and I was one of the first users. So I have used this program for more than 20 years, 1 to 2 hours of every working day, and over the years, it has improved significantly. The improvement in productivity over manually typing and keyboarding is staggering.

When it comes to speech recognition, Dragon NaturallySpeaking is the only game in town. I get speech recognition accuracy of more than 97%. Version 15.0 has definitely improved the recognition accuracy and speed significantly over version 12.0.

It is a resource hungry program, and to get a decent speed and accuracy, you need at least Intel i5 computer with 16GB of RAM. I use it on a desktop computer with Intel i7, 5th generation, with 16GB of RAM. And you need a good quality microphone. In my experience, the best microphones are SpeechWare 3-in-1 TableMike, Blue Yeti USB Microphone, and Philips SMP4000 SpeechMike Air. You can also record the speech on a digital recorder for transcription and correction later on. Olympus speech recorders have been the best in my experience.

This legal version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking comes with all the legal vocabulary so you don't have to add custom legal terms to the vocabulary. You can easily format case files, contracts, briefs, and draft preformatted templates. If you are a little computer savvy, you can create really time-saving Dragon commands and macros.

That said, the program has multiple glitches which need to be fixed with a software update. It crashes frequently, all of a sudden, in the middle of dictation, it would stop recognizing your sound. The tech support from the company is meager or almost nonexistent. But there are plenty of users forums on the Internet, and Nuance has very good help website, where you should be able to find the answers for most of the problems.

However, this Bluetooth headset is not that great and I would go for Dragon Legal without the Bluetooth headset and by 1 of the above-mentioned headset separately.
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