Fact · Dictation software
24percent
Nuance's August 2016 announcement of Dragon v15 said its deep learning technology delivers upwards of 24 percent greater accuracy.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“to deliver upwards of 24% greater accuracy”
Nuance Announces New Release of Dragon for Mac OS X, MacTech, 2016, First paragraph.
Open the original- What it measures
- The launch press release, reprinted by MacTech in August 2016. It disagrees with the 15 percent figure in Nuance's own what's new sheet for the same release.
- What it does not show
- Both figures are Nuance's own. The sheet describes out-of-the-box gains, while the press release does not say which measure it uses, so the gap cannot be resolved from the text.