Dragon Medical One

by Microsoft (Nuance)

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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.

Cloud-based clinical speech recognition for clinical documentation.

Windows, macOS, Web  ·  contact sales

TL;DR

Best for physicians and clinicians authoring clinical documentation in real time inside the EHR. Pricing: contact sales.

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Pricing
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Windows, macOS, Web

What it is

Dragon Medical One is Nuance's flagship clinical speech-recognition product, now part of Microsoft after the Nuance acquisition. The product runs in real time inside Epic, Cerner, athenaHealth, and other major EHRs, transcribing physician dictation directly into clinical notes. Dragon Medical One supports specialty-specific vocabularies, automated SOAP-note structuring, and HIPAA-compliant deployment. It is the dominant clinical-documentation speech tool in US healthcare, deployed across major health systems. Pricing is enterprise contract via Nuance/Microsoft Healthcare sales. Pricing and product details listed here were last reviewed by Neugence on 2026-05-12; check the vendor site for current values before quoting.

Best for: Physicians and clinicians authoring clinical documentation in real time inside the EHR.
Watch out for: Healthcare-specific; enterprise sales motion; tied to EHR deployments.

Install / use

nuance.com — Contact sales

What people actually do with Dragon Medical One-style transcription

The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.

Wire it into ZoomSlackNotionAirtableLoomMake.com

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleYes

Dragon Medical One vs Whipscribe

FeatureDragon Medical OneWhipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages—99
PlatformsWindows, macOS, WebWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Dragon Medical One

Frequently asked about Dragon Medical One

How much does Dragon Medical One cost?

Dragon Medical One does not publish a self-serve price — it is quoted by the vendor on contact. Expect an enterprise-style agreement rather than a card-and-go signup.

Does Dragon Medical One work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Dragon Medical One runs on Windows, macOS and Web.

How do I get started with Dragon Medical One?

There is nothing to install — Dragon Medical One is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

What are the limitations of Dragon Medical One?

Healthcare-specific; enterprise sales motion; tied to EHR deployments.

Who is Dragon Medical One best for?

Physicians and clinicians authoring clinical documentation in real time inside the EHR.

Is Dragon Medical One open source?

No. Dragon Medical One is a proprietary product from Microsoft (Nuance). If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Who makes Dragon Medical One?

Dragon Medical One is made by Microsoft (Nuance).

What kind of tool is Dragon Medical One?

In this directory Dragon Medical One is filed under meetings, healthcare, clinical as a product.

What are the alternatives to Dragon Medical One?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/dragon-medical-one-alternatives comparing Dragon Medical One with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Dragon Medical One-style transcription without running it myself?

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

How is Whipscribe different from Dragon Medical One?

Dragon Medical One is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Dragon Medical One?

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.

Where is the Dragon Medical One category heading?

Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.

Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.

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