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Nuance's Dragon guidelines recommend dictating using longer phrases rather than short phrases or individual words, because hearing a whole phrase helps the software predict what you say.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“dictate using longer phrases rather than short phrases or individual words”
Dictation guidelines (Dragon for PC, version 15 help), Nuance Communications (Dragon help), 2015, Dictation guidelines, list of tips.
Open the original- What it measures
- The guideline is part of the same list as the advice to speak at a normal conversational pace and to pause around punctuation. The page says a whole phrase helps the software predict the words that follow.
- What it does not show
- A vendor's guidance for its own product, written for Dragon version 15. It is consistent with the pausing advice of other vendors, but it is not an independent test.
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