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6audio file formats
Nuance's Dragon 15 help for Windows lists .wav, .mp3, .wma, .dss, .ds2 and .m4a as the supported audio file formats for transcribing a recording, with a minimum sampling rate of 16 kHz.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Supported audio file formats .wav, .mp3, .wma, .dss, .ds2, and .m4a”
Transcribing recorded speech (Dragon 15 for PC help), Nuance Communications, 2018, Technical requirements for audio files.
Open the original- What it measures
- The page is Nuance's help for Dragon 15 on PC. It covers recordings that you make with a recorder or phone and then transcribe with Dragon.
- What it does not show
- This is the Dragon 15 for Windows list from a 2018 help page. Later Dragon versions and the Mac product can list different formats.