Fact · Dictation software
2.7times
Without linguistic errors, Dragon Medical One's mean word error rate was 2.7 times the Whisper-based model's rate in the pilot.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
- What it measures
- A ratio of two secondary results from a pilot of three physicians.
- How it is calculated
- 1.34 / 0.50 = 2.68, rounded to 2.7
- What it does not show
- The ratio hides the overlap in the all-error result, where the difference was not significant. Read it with that result.