#Dragons naturally speaking software#

The move doubles Microsoft's total addressable market in the health care vertical to nearly $500 billion.

Nuance chief executive Mark Benjamin-who will continue to run Nuance as a Microsoft division after the acquisition-describes it as an opportunity to 'superscale how we change an industry.' It also gives Microsoft the opportunity to push Nuance technology-currently, mostly used in the US-to Microsoft's own large international market. (A 2017 study published in the Annals of Family Medicine documented physicians typically spending two hours of record-keeping for every single hour of actual patient care.)ДЄcquiring Nuance gives Microsoft direct access to the company's entire health care customer list. ACI technology is intended to reduce physician burnout and increase efficiency by offloading administrative tasks onto computers. Microsoft and Nuance began a partnership in 2019 to deliver ambient clinical intelligenceВ (ACI) technologies to health care providers. AdvertisementДЄfter Microsoft researchers Dong Yu and Frank Seide successfully applied deep-learning techniques to real-time automatic speech recognition in 2010, Dragon-now Nuance-applied the same techniques to its own speech-recognition software.ДЇast forward to today, and according to both Microsoft and Nuance, medically targeted versions of Dragon are in use by 77 percent of hospitals, 75 percent of radiologists, and 55 percent of physicians in the United States. In 2009, Stanford researcher Fei-Fei Li created ImageNet-a massive training data set that spawned a boom in deep-learning algorithms used for modern, core AI tech.

#Dragons naturally speaking software#

In 2000, Dragon Systems was acquired by ScanSoft, which acquired Nuance Communications in 2005 and rebranded itself as Nuance.Д®arlier versions of Dragon software used hidden Markov modelsВ to puzzle out the meaning of human speech, but this method had serious limitations compared to modern AI algorithms. Nuance also sells well-known personal speech-recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which is invaluable to many people with a wide range of physical disabilities.Дragon NaturallySpeaking, originally released in 1997, was one of the first commercially available continuous dictation products-meaning software that did not require the user to pause briefly between words. The company's technology is the core of Apple's Siri personal assistant. Nuance is a well-known player in the field of natural language recognition.