Turns your voice into text with up to 99% accuracy
  Up to 15% fewer speech recognition errors out of the box than Dragon 10; Recognition Analytics (Dragon automatically detects poor audio input and alerts the user, offering advice to remedy the situation)

Words appear on the screen three times faster than typing
  Faster response times for commands; multicore support makes use of machines with multicore architecture

Installation automatically detects available PC resources (CPU, processor cache, RAM) and configures system for optimal use

Correct text by voice
  Enhanced Correction Menu and Spelling Window; new “don’t recognise that word” command; Dragon “learns” from edits, including keyboard edits, faster than ever before

Acoustic and Language Model Optimiser; ability to analyse selected documents and email; includes “Nothing But Speech” filter to automatically eliminate um/ah utterances
  Enhanced Accuracy Centre with focus on ease of use

Ability to create, modify, and correct text within text fields or applications where Dragon does not have Full Text Control

  Enhanced DragonBar with contextual messages to improve usability and feature discoverability; new Dragon Sidebar presenting commands and tips; redesigned Profile Creation Wizard with focus on ease of use; more readable text for enrolment and microphone check

Includes comprehensive Help and tutorial
  Includes richer tutorial and tips; at anytime, you can search the Help for a particular word or phrase with the command “search Dragon Help for ‘xyz’”

Format text by voice; Quick Voice Formatting (commands to delete/bold/underline/italicise/capitalise/ copy/cut text)
  Handle multiple instances of a word or phrase in your text

Ability to “click by voice” an application’s menus and dialogue box elements; click/move/drag the mouse by voice; commands; press keys or key combinations by voice
  Global commands for launching applications and folders, switching to a specific window, or tabbing multiple times

Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox: Menu Tracking and Natural Language Commands¹

Word 2003, 2007 and 2010, WordPad XP, Vista, Windows 7; and DragonPad (word processor included in Dragon): Full Text Control, Menu Tracking, and Natural Language Commands¹; OpenOffice Writer 3.1, 3.2: Full Text Control; WordPerfect X3, X4, X5 (English and French only): Full Text Control, Menu Tracking, and English Natural Language Commands
  WordPerfect X5 and Word 2010 (Natural Language Commands in English only)

Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010, Outlook Express v6, Windows Mail v6 and Windows Live Mail v14: Full Text Control, Menu Tracking, and Natural Language Commands; Mozilla Thunderbird: Menu Tracking, and Natural Language Commands
  Outlook 2010 (Natural Language Commands in English only)

Excel 2003, 2007 and 2010: Full Text Control, Menu Tracking, and Natural Language Commands
  Excel 2010 (Natural Language Commands in English only)

PowerPoint 2003, 2007 and 2010: Menu Tracking, and English Natural Language Commands
  PowerPoint 2010

Dragon Voice Shortcuts™ collapse common multi-step tasks into direct voice commands. Now you can search the Web for information, products, news and more – faster than ever.
  New: shortcut commands to search more websites, including Nuance Technical Support

Send emails, schedule meetings or search your desktop faster than ever
  Email shortcut commands to control messages and desktop content; new shortcut to search Dragon Help

A synthesised voice reads out loud text you designate

Ability to playback your speech in documents
  Improved playback functionality and options

Ability to create multiple dictation sources (more than one type of audio input device) sharing a vocabulary

Allows transcription from digital recorders
  Reduced enrolment reading time to four minutes; direct support for recordings in .dss and .dss2 file formats

Specific Bluetooth wireless acoustic model

Ability to import/export custom word lists and user profiles

Easily create or import commands to insert frequently-used text and/or graphics by voice

Create or import sophisticated and powerful voice commands (with or without VBA-style scripting) to automate routine tasks

Enterprise profile management with user profiles centralised on the network; remote management of word lists, profiles and custom vocabulary; security features for custom commands; MSI installation; ability to import/export custom commands in the Command Browser; ability to have multiple vocabularies and import/export them
  Profile-opening convenience for large sites

Includes option to save synchronised audio from dictation done in DragonPad, Word, WordPerfect and OpenOffice Writer (Dragon saves a .dra file along with the transcribed text file); includes Auto-Transcribe Folder Agent (monitors a specific directory to automatically launch transcription; can provide a synchronised audio file along with the transcript for deferred correction) and Correction Only mode (correctionists can create a “No dictation available” profile without any audio setup)