Nuance Communications has launched Dragon Legal Australian – enterprise-ready speech recognition software for legal professionals. Built with a specialised Australian legal vocabulary, Dragon Legal Australian enables fast, efficient and accurate dictation of legal documentation, robust transcription and powerful customisation features that can be easily shared and deployed across a practice or legal department.

Dragon Legal Australian, coupled with the Nuance User Management Center, simplifies how speech recognition can be deployed and managed across groups of users for significant time and cost savings. For instance, a single administrator can centrally oversee deployments of Dragon to multiple employees, including assigning Dragon licenses, monitoring usage, managing settings or updates, and sharing custom terminology.

Dragon Legal Australian – part of Nuance’s suite of Dragon professional products, including Dragon Professional Group – includes features that help legal professionals reduce time spent on administrative tasks and documentation, minimise or eliminate reliance on costly transcription services, and improve productivity, including:

• Fast and accurate dictation, made more accurate by an Australian legal vocabulary trained using millions of words from legal documents.
• Improved transcription capabilities for tasks like transcribing recorded notes, which can reduce transcription time and costs or eliminate transcription services completely.
• Customisation capabilities that further improve accuracy of dictation and transcription and speed up repetitive tasks, including adding and sharing additional custom words and auto-texts (a frequently-used text passage such as a client or work order description).
• Support for Citrix virtualised environments.

An improved “What can I say?” feature, which provides helpful context-sensitive suggestions for words and commands to use as a person is dictating.

“Dragon is already a proven solution for many legal professionals who rely on the written word for their livelihood,” said Derek Austin, Director, Dragon Solutions Asia Pacific.

“With Dragon Legal Australian, it is simple for law firms and legal departments to extend the benefits of Dragon, including fast and accurate dictation and transcription, the ability to share custom legal terminology, and integration with existing workflows, to employees to ultimately increase time spent with clients and on billable work.”

Dragon Legal Australian is now available in Australian English for PC users through Nuance’s approved partners. Nuance’s partners can provide customised solutions including software, hardware, deployment management and training. Suggested recommended price starts from $A1,175 with volume discounts for five or more licenses. Upgrades from other Dragon editions are available.  

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