--- title: "Dragon Professional Individual Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Dragon Professional Individual. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Dragon Professional Individual is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/speech-recognition/dragon-professional-individual-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Speech Recognition Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/speech-recognition/) / [Dragon Professional Individual](https://www.softwareadvice.com/speech-recognition/dragon-professional-individual-profile/) / Dragon Professional Individual Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/speech-recognition/dragon-professional-individual-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/speech-recognition/dragon-professional-individual-profile/alternatives/) # Dragon Professional Individual User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.0/5 - Total reviews: 240 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.9/5 - Customer support: 3.2/5 - Value for money: 3.6/5 - Functionality: 4.0/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 104 reviews (43%) - 4 stars: 75 reviews (31%) - 3 stars: 34 reviews (14%) - 2 stars: 17 reviews (7%) - 1 star: 10 reviews (4%) ### Most mentioned pros - The program (v 16) transcribed well (even medical terms) and is relatively easy to use once the learning curve and training have been completed. - It saves me a huge amount of time when writing articles and content for my videos, because I talk content faster than I write it. - I do a lot of translation for subtitling and not having to take "dictation" really increases my productivity. ### Most mentioned cons - As I said, I wouldn’t be without it. If you have restrictions in the use of your hands, or are wary of getting repetitive strain injury in your hands from typing, then it’s life changing. - As soon as I can type on my own it will be deleted and never ever purchase again. - Not 6 because mine can be glitchy, but that’s probably because I don’t have the latest version. ## Dragon Professional Individual customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 240 (page 1). ### One of the most advanced and impressive pieces of software ever - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I first tried Dragon out of curiosity maybe 7-8 years ago and was absolutely blown away, and still am. I've since used it both recreationally and professionally, and look forward to using it for decades to come. It's the most impressive piece of software I've encountered. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Where to start? It defies belief how much better Dragon is than its competitors. I've tried many speech recognition software solutions over the years and none hold a candle to Dragon in terms of accuracy, adaptability, and practicality. #### Cons There is nothing to like least, except the price, which is well worth it anyway. Obviously I'd like it to be a little more affordable, but it's still worth every penny. --- ### Great way to work with text from audio files - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: José N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Translation and Localization - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I do a lot of translation for subtitling and not having to take "dictation" really increases my productivity. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The fact that you can teach it words like names of products, entities and cities in other languages. #### Cons I think that, as compared to the competition, it's all good. Nothing really strikes me as bad. --- ### Write quicker with Naturally Speaking - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It makes documenting procedures simple. I don't have to type as much, so as a thought comes into my head, I can simply say it and it's in my document. It speeds up my process which means I get more done. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Dictation software is so helpful when writing books/courses. I like the fact that you can train Naturally Speaking to understand your style of talking. The training feature is a must when starting out as that's how it learns how you talk. #### Cons I struggled initially with turning it when trying to use other applications. I purchased it to document procedures in accounting software. When I moved to the accounting software to dictate the procedures, a new window appeared and started typing what I was saying. My hope was to have the typing in my open word doc. I had to adjust how I documented procedures...not a big deal, but took getting used to. --- ### Most Functional for People Who Have Difficulty Typing! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Douglas C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I originally bought Dragon Speech Software for my Dad as he was aging and had growing difficulty sitting at his computer and typing accurately. For him it actually proved more of a nuisance since the program had to learn his voice and much of his vocabulary before it could be of any real use to him. I did find more use for it myself, but still had to get through that original adjustment period. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros This software is great for people who have difficulty typing and/or for anyone who wants to transcribe a large physical document into digital form and does not have use of a scanner. #### Cons The learning curve of the program can be a bit difficult to overcome in the early stages as the program learns the user's voice, intonations, and inflections. It does work better with more use, but you must be aware of errors when you first get started. --- ### Love the software and saves time typing - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ben T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Defense & Space - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very good and will continue using as it saves me a lot of time. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Dragon Naturally Speaking is a great concept and saves me a lot of time when writing long emails. It is much quicker than typing. #### Cons You have to proof read the writing thoroughly, otherwise you may have completely random words thrown in. Also, when used for gmail on a browser there can be quite a bit of lag. --- ### Good concept, only fair execution - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Katalin M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Extensive Laboratory use #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros We have been using Dragon for years - while the concept is excellent, the execution is only fair. Easy to use, easy to set up, very nice "canned comments" and functionality to use. #### Cons Errors are frequent enough to cause concern - going into, then back out of records for recording and re-recording can be problematic. Incorrect translations are frequent enough to cause concerns - translation of words like "thymus" into "time us" is not acceptable. The company does appear to come out with real-time improvements and efforts to correct, however, the errors that make it through are concerning. --- ### You can't trust this company - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Evan H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered The company is unreachable. They don't respond to requests even on Facebook. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros I work ok, before the discounted it, and it no longer works at all, #### Cons I purchased Dragon Speak Naturally for Mac, they discontinued the product, and it no longer works with the current version of Mac IOS. Their only solution was to go back and downgrade IOS. I requested a copy of the Microsoft version of Dragon Speak Naturally, as the product they sold me no longer works. They said no. They certainly would allow me to buy it at full price, I believe that's unacceptable. --- ### Good Communication Tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Sharon T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. This software provided encouragement to a special needs student so he would make better attempts at speaking loudly and clearly. I benefited by making progress with a student and he benefited because it made him focus on producing clear speech. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I used this software with a student that needed encouragement to speak clearly. He was a special needs student and being able to speak and see his spoken words was very motivating to him. Also, if he didn't use his best articulation skills, his words would not appear correctly on the screen. It was a fun challenge to him to say his words clearly so they would appear correctly. This may not be the intended purpose for the software, but it was a great program to use for Speech Therapy. #### Cons As with any affordable voice to text recognition software, there are times when you speak fairly clearly but it still displays an incorrect word. Generally, a second attempt will produce the correct word. --- ### How to speed up content writing - don't write, dictate! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Klemen V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I am writing blogs. Actually, I am dictating blogs. It is so much faster and produces better results. When dictating, I can put more emphasis on sentences. Because when typing, my mind is occupied by pressing keyboard. I can dictate so much faster and better than I can write. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I am writing blogs. I am using a lot of AI tools like Jarvis and Frase. Time is limiting factor. One way to speed up writing is by actualy dictating instead of writing. I am using Dragon, because it integrates with browser, because it allows corrections and macro's and because it really works. #### Cons Support. There is no email/chat support. Software is expensive and precise. I have purchased expensive Bluetooth headphones - only to have constant problems with Dragon. It took me some time to figure out Bluetoth settings for dictation that also fixed Dragon. #### Reasons for switching to Dragon Professional Individual Dragon supports browser and has corrections and macros. I like Office 365 also. --- ### Time saver if you do a lot of interviews - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ganjar W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros This application allows users to type from speech. This is very valuable for social scientists doing a lot of interviews. Instead of spending time, which is usually a very long time, to transcribe the data, it is easier to use the application to type the data for you. It has good voice recognition quality so your data will likely maintain its form, around 80-90% accuracy. #### Cons It requires a lot of memory. It would run fine and smooth at first but the longer you work with it, the more memory it will consume until it crashes. --- ### A huge time saver for writers and content creators in general - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Cristina F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It saves me a huge amount of time when writing articles and content for my videos, because I talk content faster than I write it. Also, it gives me much more freedom of expression, as I don;t have to worry about things written down not making sense; I talk them out, then come back on the transcription at the end and edit out what's needed. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The software is very easy to use and it learns the patterns of your speech as you use it. If you are more comfortable expressing your ideas by talking, but you also need to have them written down and turned into pieces of content for your blogs, website, videos etc , this is a great partner to have. I like the fact that there is a cloud version too called Dragon Anywhere, for those times when you can't get an internet connection. #### Cons I feel that the accuracy of speech recognition- while amazing!- can still be improved. When you start using the software, you get a text to read at your natural pace, and that's what the recognition is based upon. Well, when you talk and express your ideas, you tend to use a faster pace and that pace, associated with inflections and emotions doesn't always get understood correctly by Dragon. --- ### Daily user Dragon 12 - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: LARRY L. - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I listen to non-English speakers and translate for them. It is far easier to listen phrase by phrase and then speak their words in English, vs. any other methods I have found. Since I mainly transcribe in this manner, I turn off the command features in Dragon most of the time. It executes commands in Word okay though. I don't use it in other applications though it has all kinds of command and window swapping features. At one time i considered switching to Google Words (about the time I had the quality issues) and I went back to Dragon anyway. Google voice recognition makes a nice backup in a pinch but it has other issues; not the same. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It really is a powerful engine. I use it a lot. I recently had to reinstall it on a new computer and lost all my previous settings and profiles. It spent about an hour going through everything I had written before and is cranking out better than ever. The additional RAM and processor speed didn't hurt. #### Cons 1) Dragon is a heavy user of RAM and processor. A gamer or heavy graphic setup is best. If you're running a dinosaur you might be better off with an earlier version of Dragon or Google docs voice recognition. Don't run any other heavy use programs simultaneously unless you are geared up. e.g. If my wife goes to use Adobe Creative Cloud after I've run a Dragon session a complete reboot helps. Heavy graphics, or audio / video like Audacity and VideoPad or Premier I would reboot first just to be safe. Big enough parallel processors and RAM and this won't be an issue for you. 2) This wasn't totally a software issue per se. It seemed like the quality was slowly degrading; it wasn't recognizing my speech as well as before. Dragon said my mic quality was OK. Somewhere along the way I decided to actually listen to the quality of a recording made with my old mic. It was awful. No wonder the poor thing couldn't recognize me and no wonder it was getting worse. Got a newer Logitech gamer headset and now it is awesome. Hint: Actually listen to the quality of your mic, don't rely on whether Dragon says it's acceptable or not. GIGO. --- ### Dragon Pro - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: James B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Working from home, it has been invaluable. I can now act as my own typist (well, almost!)The more I use it, the more accurate it gets, which is really rewarding, and it has really come into its own during COVID lockdown periods, when face to face working was out, and I had to communicate purely through email.I'm thinking about trying to write a novel with it, next! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Really clear guidance around voice commandsAllows me to dictate at home, and then transfer to text on my PC whenever convenientReal time saver (I used to have to collect tapes, and pass them to my PA) #### Cons I have a fairly strong Scottish accent, and it took time to "train" the software. I still sometimes attempt to speak in a home counties accent, just to make life easier! --- ### Dragon Nuance Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Judiciary - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered As a voice writer, I use Dragon Naturally Speaking together with another program daily. I transcribe all court records using this software and it has become quick and easy. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I have been using Dragon for the past two years. It has helped me to become more productive at work. With the Dragon software, I transcribe more audio hours per week compared to typing on a qwerty keyboard. #### Cons As someone with a Caribbean accent, I had to train the Dragon software to recognise my pronunciation of many words. Training the software took a little time; however, it was worth it. Dragon now recognises my pronunciation perfectly, and this has resulted in greater accuracy. --- ### Dragon makes life easy - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rick M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I started using dragon in college, and it was a lifesaver, and I’ve been using it ever cents #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros For myself, it is very beneficial because I have arthritis very bad in both hands and it would take me forever to have to try to type #### Cons The biggest con that I can think of is the cost --- ### Dragon Is The Premier Voice to Text Solution With Excellent Voice Command Editing - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Stephanie S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have been very pleased with Dragon Professional. I have used it for years and every version I use gets better. My needs and use is rather basic. I don't use a lot of advanced features. What I do use is excellent and lets me get the job done effectively and efficiently. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The quality of voice recognition is outstanding! This alone makes Dragon stand out. Add to that the ability to effectively edit documents by voice alone and nothing else I've tried compares. Very very good. #### Cons To get the best benefit you need to train the software. It's not hard. It's worth it. It's also somewhat annoying. --- ### No tech support - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Bj C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have abandoned Dragon and am now using windows speech recognition. So far I am very happy with a new product and wish I had switched long ago. I do not want to use the software of a company that fails to give technical support, no matter how good the product is. Oh by the way, for the one problem I trawled through the tech support sites over and over, trying to find solutions to, in particular, the one problem. Nothing. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I used Dragon Naturallyspeaking Professional Individual 14 for a number of years. Recognition accuracy is excellent. The ability to create custom commands this is superb. The software has a great deal going for it. #### Cons I had two technical problems that were very seriously hindering my capacity to use the program. All attempts to get a tech support failed. On one occassion I was referred to an independent software support accompanying called Just Answer and after paying about $30 still did not have my problem fixed (only tried to fix one of them on that occasion). --- ### old bad software - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Joe B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Real Estate - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: September 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I had to use it because I was temporarily disabled and it was horrible to learn and absolutely frustrating at times. As soon as I can type on my own it will be deleted and never ever purchase again. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros command prompts worked reasonably well if you know what they are. #### Cons it is a very stupid software and can't read anything around it which in today's day is archaic. The software needs a major upgrade and update to be smarter on how it works. learning the software is a difficult task. --- ### Useful software, but not quite up to par by current standards - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Less neck and back pain. Dictating long projects can be faster and easier than typing. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I only use Dragon for very long projects, i.e. translating novels. Being able to dictate hundreds of pages is fantastic, since I used to experience neck pain after work. It also includes a long list of control commands for other programs as well as your OS. I myself don't use this capablity, but it can definitely come in handy if you are injured or disabled. #### Cons I have been using the software for about 7 years now and I don't think it has kept up with the times. There are other great options for speech recognition that you don't need to train beforehand. I use Google Docs on my phone and it picks up virtually everything in all 4 of my working languages. Before using Dragon, you will need to set up and "train" the software by reading several texts into the microphone. I used to be fine with this 7 years ago, but in 2018 it shouldn't be necessary . One last con: I don't like how Dragon seems to run in the background even after I've closed it. I used to see processes associated with it in my Windows Task Manager/start menu and had to jump through hoops to delete them manually. I'm pretty sure this isn't a problem anymore in newer versions, though. --- ### Overall, a huge time saver - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ray Z. - Industry: Retail - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Time saved and ease of use. I have never been fond of typing and prefer to be able to express my thoughts orally - I can do that and still have a written record or response easily available and legible. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I have been using the Dragon line for many years and it has gotten considerably easier to use and more accurate with each new release. Gone are the days that you had to spend hours on end training the product to recognize your speech patterns, idioms, idiosyncrasies and accents. The accuracy continues to improve and the formatting and command options are, at times overwhelming. #### Cons The help menus have a lot to be desired, if you are looking to find a quick answer, forget it! You have to know the exact terminology and context that is used in the help section or else spend a lot of time searching. When you do find an answer, the writers assume that you are a programming genius that knows exactly what is being discussed - if you need plain language answers, you won't find them. The manufacturer's support is, bluntly put - non existent, you will find more helpful information in user forums and blogs. --- ### Product needs improvement - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros You can customize your own templates which is intended to make workflow more efficient. You can also customize hotkeys and pedal buttons if you are recording with a foot pedal. If you buy the learning software it can learn your voice and remember your preferences. It can also be integrated into other software systems. #### Cons The voice recognition is very poor most of the time. I have had a lot of problems with this program crashing. It is very unfortunate if the program crashes and you are in the middle of a long dictation. I also think the functionality could be more intuitive. --- ### Train You Dragon! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kristin P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Dragon Medical One is very easy to install and users can begin using it immediately! As the user continues to optimize their use of DMO, the recognition improves. Dragon is great because the installation, implementation, and training are very user-friendly. #### Cons Dragon is a simple product and I think the developers do a great job supporting the product and resolving issues. --- ### Great things can happen, but you need to be patient - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros In general, I love the software but we've had a long love/hate relationship for about three years. It's taken that long for me to really optimize my set up so that it runs well. I love the customizable vocabulary as well as being able to dictate without Internet connectivity. I like the fact that I can focus on content rather than typing when dictating. Actually, I am dictating this review with Dragon for Mac. #### Cons Microphone selection is a really big deal. You may have to try a few to get one that works well for you. It takes a while to learn how to use the software. Nuance could do more to make on boarding easier. The Windows version is significantly better than the Mac version in terms of voice recognition and text handling within an application. It's definitely worth the price, but you're going to have to put a fair amount of work into optimizing how it works. Don't think of it as Siri on steroids. Dragon dictate does a lot more and thus the set up takes a bit more tweaking than holding a button-down on your iPhone. --- ### Allows for efficient multi tasking - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Brenda K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall experience has been very satisfactory. I have cut my work time in half. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The ability to just be able to speak and have it transcribe accurately and quickly. I do student assessments and curriculum adjustments daily. It is time consuming if you are stuck at the keyboard all day. This allows me to get other tasks accomplished simultaneously. Spelling is usually error free and it gets accustomed to words and phrases you use often. I am getting so many words per minute accomplished using this method rather than typing. #### Cons A little pricey. I would recommend for people who will use it multiple times per week to make it cost efficient. You may want to invest in a good microphone. I got one online at a reasonable price. my children are Home schooled and also use it from time to time. If you are using this for children be sure they speak loudly and clearly as it may make more errors when words are not spoken clearly. Cumbersome installation but worth it in the end! --- ### A good step forward - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Serge H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Once customized and the end-user's experience how to deal with the software, it is of huge value for day-to-day use. Especially for repeating text fragments it is extremely time-saving. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros After the "learning process" and adaptation to the local language of the user the software works fine and "as designed". #### Cons The learning process of the software (adaptation to the local language) and the effort for the new end-user to learn the most important commands and features takes some time and needs a lot of exercise. #### Reasons for choosing Dragon Professional Individual In that time we evaluated the product - and it is still now - Dragon was the most fitting and usable software for our needs. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/speech-recognition/dragon-professional-individual-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Dragon Professional Individual Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice