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Dragon Professional 16 Release notes
Nuance Communications, Nuance Communications, Dragon Professional 16 help, 2023
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- The official release notes for Dragon Professional 16 on Windows. They list the system requirements: supported Windows versions, RAM, processor, free disk space and the .NET Framework.
- How much weight it carries
- Official vendor documentation, dated in the page footer (3/15/2023). It describes the Windows version named on the page and does not say whether later updates changed a requirement.
Facts taken from this source
- Nuance's Dragon Professional 16 release notes say Dragon upgrades versions 13, 14 and 15 to version 16 automatically.
“Dragon automatically upgrades Dragon 13, 14, and 15 to Dragon 16.” (Before you upgrade)
- Nuance says that if you upgrade from Dragon Professional or Dragon Legal to Dragon Law Enforcement version 16, your user profiles are not updated automatically.
“If you are upgrading from Dragon Professional or Dragon Legal to Dragon Law Enforcement V16, your user profiles will not be automatically updated to V16.” (Before you upgrade)
- Nuance says users upgrading from Dragon 12 or earlier must follow a manual procedure, not the automatic upgrade used for versions 13 to 15.
“If you are upgrading from Dragon 12 or earlier, you must do the following:” (Before you upgrade)
- Nuance says that if you bought the Dragon 16 download, the serial number is in the confirmation email from Nuance, in both the CSV file and the HTML file attached to it.
“If you purchased the download, you receive a confirmation email from Nuance. Your serial number is located in both the .CSV file and the .HTML file attached to the email.” (Locating your serial number)
- Nuance says that when you upgrade Dragon, the serial number of your existing Dragon installation is required.
“When upgrading Dragon, the serial number for your existing Dragon installation is required.” (Locating your serial number)
- Nuance's release notes list support for the Microsoft Teams Home and Work editions as a new feature of Dragon Professional 16.
“MS Teams Home and Work editions support” (What's new)
- Nuance says that if you skip activation when you first start Dragon 16, you can launch it in Trial mode five times before you must activate it.
“If you skip activation, you can launch Dragon in Trial mode five times” (Activate Dragon)
- Nuance's release notes list Windows 11 support, Office 2021 support and Windows Server 2022 support as new in Dragon Professional 16, along with MouseGrid on up to three monitors.
“Windows 11 support Office 2021 support Windows Server 2022 support MouseGrid supports multiple monitors (up to 3).” (What's new)
- Nuance's Dragon Professional 16 release notes list a known issue: Dragon does not recognize dictation or commands when you use the Citrix environment in Generic Mode.
“Dragon does not recognize dictation or commands when using the Citrix environment in Generic Mode” (Known issues)
- Nuance's workaround for the Citrix Generic Mode issue is to run Citrix in optimized mode.
“When using Dragon in a Citrix environment, always run Citrix in optimized mode” (Known issues)
- The minimum processor for Dragon Professional 16 is a 2.2 GHz Intel dual-core or equivalent AMD processor, and faster processors give faster performance.
“Minimum: 2.2 GHz Intel® dual core or equivalent AMD processor.” (System requirements, CPU)
- Dragon Professional 16 needs Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.8 or later, which Nuance says you must download from Microsoft if it is not installed.
“Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.8 or later.” (System requirements, Other)
- Nuance says Dragon Professional 16 needs 12 GB of free hard disk space, including the downloaded installation files.
“Free hard disk space 12GB (includes downloaded installation files)” (System requirements, Free hard disk space)
- Nuance's Dragon Professional 16 release notes give 4 GB of RAM as the minimum on every supported Windows version.
“Minimum: 4 GB for all operating systems.” (System requirements, RAM)
- Nuance lists Windows 11 (64-bit), Windows 10 (32-bit and 64-bit) and Windows Server 2016, 2019 and 2022 as supported operating systems for Dragon Professional 16.
“Supported operating systems Windows 11 (64-bit) Windows 10 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2022” (System requirements, Supported operating systems)
- In the Dragon Professional 16 release notes, Nuance says that after the Dragon Web extensions for Edge or Chrome are installed, dictation still works but you can no longer use Dragon commands.
“dictation will continues to work but you can no longer use Dragon commands” (Known issues, Commands)
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