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Nuance's privacy statement says it may capture users' voice, and that voice snippets may be reviewed to build, train and improve its automated methods.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“To build, train, and improve the accuracy of our automated methods of processing (including AI), we manually review some of the predictions and inferences produced by the automated methods against the underlying data ... Snippets of your voice data, may be manually reviewed and transcribed into text for Nuance’s product operation, tuning, maintenance, and enhancement.”
Nuance privacy statement (voice recognition data), Nuance Communications, 2026, Privacy statement: Nuance voice recognition technology, and how we review data.
Open the original- What it measures
- The statement covers Nuance voice recognition products, including third-party products built on its technology.
- What it does not show
- Stated as a possibility ("may be reviewed"), in a general Nuance statement, not in a Dragon Professional product page. The statement does not say whether any given user's audio is included.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Dragon Professional: 1 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- Dragon Professional (Nuance)
- Feature
- Recordings can train the maker's models
- Detail
- Voice snippets may be reviewed to train
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 1 means the maker's page says the app does this.