Official documentation
Transcribing recorded speech (Dragon 15 for PC help)
Nuance Communications, 2018
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- Nuance's help page for Dragon 15 on Windows explains how to transcribe an audio file you recorded, lists the supported file formats and the minimum sampling rate, and describes how to choose a user profile when the voice is not yours.
- How much weight it carries
- Official vendor help for Dragon 15. The page is dated April 2018, so it describes that version; newer Dragon releases may change the menus and formats. Read it as the documented behavior of Dragon 15 on Windows.
Facts taken from this source
- When you transcribe a recording of someone else's voice in Dragon, you can only correct the output by hand, with the mouse and keyboard.
“you will only be able to correct the output manually, using mouse and keyboard” (To transcribe a recording, Which user profile to use)
- In Dragon 15 on Windows, you start a recording transcription from the DragonBar by choosing Tools, then Transcribe Audio, then Transcribe Recording.
“From the DragonBar, select Tools>Transcribe Audio>Transcribe Recording” (To transcribe a recording, step 1)
- In Dragon 15 for Windows, the step to transcribe a recording asks you to select who the voice in the recording belongs to, and the choices are Me or Someone else.
“Click Select the speaker and select who the voice in the recording belongs to” (To transcribe a recording, Select the speaker step)
- 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.
“Supported audio file formats .wav, .mp3, .wma, .dss, .ds2, and .m4a” (Technical requirements for audio files)
- In Dragon 15 for Windows, you can transcribe a recording with your own user profile.
“You can transcribe the file with your own user profile.” (Which user profile to use)