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=== Applications ===
Dragon Dictate and its successor Dragon NaturallySpeaking has already been used in various commercial sectors including healthcare, business, legal and different areas of disability support. Dragon Medical One, a product by Nuance, is widely utilized in medical transcription and clinical documentation to improve workflow efficiency and alleviate the mental stress of healthcare professionals. Legal professionals, including attorneys, judges, clerks, and paralegals, utilize Nuance's Dragon Legal Anywhere to transcribe legal documents and case notes, thereby enhancing documentation speed. Dragon Dictate is also employed in business and corporates to boost productivity through efficient documentation of meeting details <ref>[https://www.nuance.com/dragon.html ''Dragon Legal Speech Recognition, v16 | Nuance''. (n.d.). Nuance Communications. Retrieved 16 September 2023, from https://www.nuance.com/dragon.html] </ref>. Additionally, it aids individuals with disabilities by offering voice-controlled commands, serving as a viable alternative to typing and handwriting, particularly benefiting deaf patients.<ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-laryngology-and-otology/article/abs/smartphone-speechtotext-applications-for-communication-with-profoundly-deaf-patients/50F2888D68E35B6259BA435B043B631C Lyall, F. C., Clamp, P. J., & Hajioff, D. (2016). Smartphone speech-to-text applications for communication with profoundly deaf patients. ''The Journal of Laryngology & Otology'', ''130''(1), 104–106.] </ref>

Additionally, Dragon software has applications beyond commercial industries, for example in education and research. Dragon Dictate, in combination with referencing software like Sente, significantly improves research productivity by enabling direct transcription of thoughts through voice to eliminates the need to switch between applications when summarizing articles.<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00049670.2013.768520 Fassbender, E., & Mamtora, J. (2013). A workflow for managing information for research using the iPad, Sente and Dragon Dictate: A collaboration between an academic and a research librarian. ''The Australian Library Journal'', ''62''(1), 53–60.] </ref> Dragon Dictate can also be used in language teaching for tasks like storytelling, conversation, communicative interactions to aid for learning languages.<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342335919_Speech_recognition_in_language_teaching_its_impact_on_teachers_and_students Carrier, M. (2016, June 20). ''Speech recognition in language teaching: Its impact on teachers and students''. ICT for Language learning conference, Florence, Italy] </ref>