What happened to Dragon Dictation?

Dragon Dictation the mobile app is gone, and its maker changed hands. Microsoft acquired Nuance in 2022 for 19.7 billion dollars, mainly for the healthcare speech business.

What replaced Dragon NaturallySpeaking as a product line: Dragon Professional continues on Windows, and Dragon Medical One thrives inside hospital systems. Dragon for Mac was discontinued years earlier, leaving Mac users without an official option. The free consumer apps disappeared as phone keyboards absorbed dictation.

So Dragon is still available, but only where its economics work: professionals with specialist vocabularies on Windows. Everyone else moved on to built-in dictation or AI keyboard apps that did not exist when Dragon earned its name.

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