Dragon Anywhere 12+

On a desktop, for professional use, Dragon is head and shoulders above, almost any other kind of speech recognition for its speed, and accuracy, alone, let alone the unmatchable integration with editing, application, control, and the ability to create custom libraries of words.
Sadly, the mobile version is nothing like as accurate, Fast, or powerful. Unless you are in a perfectly acoustically quite environment, it really struggles, and switching between the phone, microphones and earbuds causes other problems.
Both desktop and mobile are badly let down bye an absolutely awful shopping experience thanks to an outdated non-integrated, clunky and error ridden
Implementation by Digital River/nuance. If you are expecting a “click to buy and go” experience, you are going to be really disappointed as there are multiple manual steps involving email, data, input, and a ferociously complicated miss match between the passwords for the application, the password for the American store, the password for the UK store, the password for the support system, and the passwords for the Apple app. It’s a complete joke.

(The terrible punctuation and errors in this review are all caused by apples, own voice recognition joke)

I am astonished by the low average ratings for this app and would urge anybody serious to try it. I have been following speech recognition including the Dragon computer apps for nearly 20 years and this app is the best ever. I discovered it two weeks ago (how did I miss it before?) and as a practising accountant I must've used it nearly 100 times in the last two weeks. Most of my work is dictating replies to emails which easily can be emailed to me and copied into the reply. I have also made extensive file notes following meetings and brief notes for sending length text messages et cetera. Speech recognition is virtually perfect – probably 99% without any technical words and the benefit of this system (compared to Siri et cetera) that you can easily personalise your dictionary adding special names technical phrases etc. I love it please please try the seven day free trial you love it! Naturally I dictated this. To this point is over 150 words probably dictated at over 90 words per minute and there were actually two recognition errors (probably due to my lazy speaking) which were very easily corrected. Must have app for any business person!

I have been using dragon dictate medical for the mac for aBOUT 3 years. Whilst it has saved me a small fortune in secretarial bills, it has been buggy and frustrating. Having noticed that the Mac OS version has been dropped I thought I would try this option and have been astounded by the improvements. It is not perfect so:
The bad:
1) very American - you have to remember to say “period” not stop.
2) setup - when I tried to set up through the app I received an error message along the lines of my ITunes account could not authorise purchases- easy fix, register through the nuance website and then sign in on the device - sorted.
3) My hospital WiFi does not alow communication to the server to train words.
4) formatting is not always identical to MS word

The good:
1) I have just dictated an entire orthopaedic clinic at a much improved accuracy - no training required
2) Custom words - easy to set up and train with synchronisation across devices
3) Integrates very well with iPad Pro and keyboard
4) Seamless saving to Dropbox
5) auto text - allows the creation of regularly used phrases / paragraphs - that can be triggered by a set phrase - Brilliant

All in all - very impressed. I think the negative reviews here are largely left by people new to digital dictation. I spent the last hour of my day demonstrating the system to others.