Nuance updates speech recognition software

Nuance Communications has unveiled its Dragon Medical 10 software, a real-time medical speech recognition software, offering new medical vocabularies, improved integration with EMR systems, updated regional accent support and customizable commands, like Voice Shortcuts and DragonTemplates.

Dragon Medical 10 lets physicians create medical documents and emails, search the web, control their PC and EMR entirely by voice, according to the Burlington, Mass.-based company.

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