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FOR DOCTORS, NPs, PAs, THERAPISTS, PODIATRISTS AND CHIROPRACTORS WHO DICTATE THEIR OWN NOTES
Medical dictation software for your own Windows PC or Mac, $297 a year.
A first year of Dragon Medical One costs $1,713.
VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition types your notes into Epic, Cerner, a browser chart or Word when you stop recording, with more than 74,000 medical terms built in. The speech recognition runs on the computer in front of you, and your dictation audio stays there.
$297/year or $34.99/month · Mac and Windows · 30-day money-back guarantee
Dragon Medical One: $99 a month on a one year term plus a $525 implementation fee, as listed at www.dragonmedicalsoftware.com/products/dragon-medical-one-cloud-based-speech-recognition, checked 6 November 2026. Source and math below.
Your thoughts never need
a server.
On-device recognition
Advanced speech recognition runs entirely on your computer for complete privacy and control.
Works offline
Dictate anywhere, anytime. No internet connection required.
Mac and Windows
One edition, one price, on either computer.
THE SHORT ANSWER
What medical voice recognition software does, and where VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition fits
Medical voice recognition software turns a clinician's speech into text in the chart, with a vocabulary that spells drug names, anatomy and abbreviations correctly. VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition does this on your own Mac or Windows PC for $297 a year: the speech recognition runs on that computer, 75,374 medical terms are built in, and dictation works with the network off. A first year of Dragon Medical One, the best known cloud product, costs $1,713 at one reseller's list price.
Key facts
- VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition costs $297 a year or $34.99 a month, on Mac or Windows.
- Dragon Medical One lists at $99 a month plus a $525 implementation fee at dragonmedicalsoftware.com.
- The Healthcare Edition dictionary ships 75,374 medical terms, counted from the app's term file.
- On a Mac, Healthcare Edition steers corrections toward one of 32 clinical specialties you choose.
- Every price and count in these facts was checked on 6 November 2026.
Updated 6 November 2026. Dragon price from dragonmedicalsoftware.com; VoicePrivate counts from the Healthcare Edition app files, shown in the table further down.
Dear Clinician,
If you dictate your own notes, and you pay for Dragon Medical One or you have priced it, give me six minutes.
In the first year, a Dragon Medical One seat costs $1,416 more than the software I am about to show you. After that the gap is $891 a year, every year, per provider. I will do the math in front of you, then show you the software, and you can judge both.
Here is why the gap is so wide.
What a Dragon Medical One seat costs
Nuance sells Dragon Medical One through resellers and does not publish a list price. One reseller, dragonmedicalsoftware.com, lists it today like this:
First year, one provider
Three years, one provider, on Dragon's cheapest term
Source: Dragon Medical One product page, www.dragonmedicalsoftware.com/products/dragon-medical-one-cloud-based-speech-recognition, checked 6 November 2026: "$525 Implementation Fee (all plans each new subscription) $99 Monthly (1 year subscription)" and "$79 Monthly (3 year subscription)". Other resellers may quote differently.
VoicePrivate's breakdown of Dragon Medical One pricing by term and reseller walks through every line of that quote, and the Dragon Medical One alternatives that run on the device are compared side by side for clinicians who want the audio to stay put.
Medical dictation software for Windows that runs on the PC itself
Microsoft's own requirements page for Dragon Medical One lists Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server, and Dragon Medical One is a cloud service: your voice travels over the internet to be recognized on remote servers, and the text comes back. If your practice runs on Macs, or you finish your charts on a MacBook at home, it means a Windows virtual machine or a remote Windows desktop.
VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition runs on the PC itself: Windows 10 version 1903 or later, or Windows 11, with a standard installer that needs no admin rights for a user install. Plan on 8 GB of memory (16 GB is comfortable with an EHR open) and about 500 MB of disk, and use any microphone Windows already recognizes. Mac users get the same edition, running natively on macOS 13 or later, as the guide to medical dictation on a Mac explains.
Source: Microsoft Learn, "Dragon Medical One system requirements", learn.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/healthcare/dragon-medical-one/admin/requirements, last updated 18 September 2026, checked 6 November 2026.
If you are choosing medical voice recognition software for a Windows practice, VoicePrivate's guide to medical dictation software on a Windows PC sets Healthcare Edition next to Dragon Medical One and Windows Voice Typing, and the offline voice to text guide for Windows covers everyday dictation outside the chart.
Medical voice recognition software for Mac
Dragon Medical One has no Mac version: the Microsoft requirements page above lists Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server and nothing else. VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition is a native Mac app for macOS 13 or later, at the same $297 a year as on Windows, and on a Mac it adds a choice of 32 specialty vocabularies. Apple Dictation is free on the Mac and fine for a short message, but it has no medical term list. VoicePrivate's rundown of the Mac routes to Dragon Medical One covers the virtual machine and remote desktop workarounds, and the one route that skips Windows.
Medical dictation software that works in any EHR or app
VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition is dictation software for medical professionals that runs on your own Mac or Windows PC.
Medical speech to text in three steps
You click into the note. You press one shortcut. You speak the note the way you would say it to a colleague, and you press the shortcut again. The text is typed into whatever window you were working in: Epic, Cerner, a browser portal, a patient message, a referral letter in Word.
The speech recognition happens on the computer in front of you. Your dictation audio stays on that computer. And because the medical dictionary and the speech engine sit on your own disk, dictation keeps working with the network switched off. VoicePrivate's page on how Healthcare Edition keeps patient audio off VoicePrivate's servers explains that design in detail.
Have recordings rather than live speech? VoicePrivate's medical voice to text converter guide shows how file import turns a WAV, MP3 or M4A dictation into text on the same computer.
The 30-second video at the top of this page shows it. Here is where your voice goes.
THREE KINDS
The three kinds of medical voice recognition software
Medical voice recognition software comes in three kinds, and they differ in who checks the text and where the patient audio is recognized. VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition is the first kind, running on your own computer.
| Kind | How the note gets written | Who checks the text | Where the audio is recognized |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front-end speech recognition | You speak, and the text lands in the chart for you to read. | You, before you sign | On a vendor's servers for cloud products such as Dragon Medical One; on your own Mac or PC for VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition |
| Back-end speech recognition | You record the note, software drafts the text later, and an editor or transcriptionist corrects it. | An editor first, then you | Usually on the dictation vendor's or the hospital's servers |
| Ambient AI scribe | It listens to the whole visit and drafts the note from the conversation. | You, once the draft arrives | Usually in the vendor's cloud; a few scribes run on the device |
VoicePrivate makes only the first of those three. It types what you say when you stop recording, and it never records a visit on its own. If you want the visit drafted for you, VoicePrivate's guide to how AI medical scribes work and what they cost covers that kind.
What ships in VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition, counted from the app
These are counts, not claims. Each number below comes from the files the VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition app is built from, so you can hold any medical voice recognition software to the same list.
| What we counted | Count | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Built-in medical terms | 75,374 | Drug names, anatomy, procedures and abbreviations such as HbA1c, spelled the way a chart spells them |
| Specialty vocabularies to choose from on a Mac | 32, plus General | From allergy and immunology to vascular surgery; corrections lean toward the specialty you pick |
| Drug-name words kept as you say them | 5,767 | Words from brand and generic drug names in the FDA Orange Book product file; the app never rewrites one drug name into another |
| Spoken medical shortcuts | 7 | SOAP note, history of present illness, review of systems, physical exam, vitals, prescription and date of service |
| Healthcare templates | 2 | SOAP Note and Patient Intake, plus the Email Draft and Meeting Notes templates every edition has |
| Audio formats for recording import | 6 on Mac, 7 on Windows | WAV, MP3, M4A, FLAC, OGG and AAC, plus WMA on Windows |
Source: we counted these from the VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition app files on 6 November 2026: the medical dictionary and its specialty tags, the drug-name list, the medical shortcut file, the templates file and the audio import list.
The Healthcare Edition features page walks through the dictation features one by one, and the radiology report workflow has its own page on radiology dictation software that stays on the device.
WHERE YOUR VOICE GOES
Your voice goes to your own computer.
That is the whole path.
Privacy controls can change what a cloud service keeps. VoicePrivate changes where speech recognition happens.
EVERYTHING YOU GET
What comes with Healthcare Edition
Here is the full list. Everything below ships in the app today, on Mac and Windows unless it says otherwise.
Medical voice recognition software that writes drugs, doses and vitals the way you said them
- More than 74,000 medical terms, built in. Empagliflozin, tachycardia, HbA1c, metformin. Drug names and procedures arrive spelled correctly, and you can add your own words on top.
- Your specialty, on a Mac. Choose from 32 clinical specialties, from cardiology and psychiatry to podiatry and radiology. VoicePrivate then corrects a misheard word toward a term from your specialty. On Windows the full medical dictionary is used.
- Drug names and doses written the way you said them. Eliquis stays Eliquis, and a generic stays the generic. Doses are spaced as "10 mg", and "3x daily" and "for 7 days" stay with the dose. Say a number again to correct a dose and the new number replaces the old one.
- Vitals by voice. Say "insert vitals BP 128 over 82 heart rate 76 respiratory rate 16 temp 98.4 sats 97 weight 182" and you get: Vitals: BP 128/82, HR 76, RR 16, Temp 98.4, SpO2 97%, Weight 182.
- Spoken shortcuts and templates. Say "insert physical exam", "insert review of systems" or "insert prescription" and the full block goes in. SOAP Note and Patient Intake templates walk you through a note section by section.
Import your Dragon vocabulary and make it yours
- Bring your Dragon word list. One Import button reads a Dragon word list (text or XML), a plain list, a CSV, an Excel workbook or a VoicePrivate export. You review every term before it is added, and the terms you already have stay as they are.
- Voice commands you make yourself. Pick a phrase such as "sign off" and choose what it does: insert your closing, press Tab or Return, wait a moment, or insert a text shortcut, in that order.
- It learns your corrections. Fix a word with Edit & teach and click Apply & Learn. A word you have corrected three times joins your Personal Dictionary.
- Vocabulary sets. Group terms and names by clinic or service, switch each set on or off, and share a set with a colleague as a pack file.
- Terms from your own documents. Point it at your templates, letters and PDFs, scanned pages included, and it finds the names, acronyms and unusual words to add. The reading happens on your computer.
Medical dictation software that works offline, on Mac and Windows
- Works with the network off. Transcription needs no connection. Licence checks, downloads and updates use the internet.
- Mac and Windows at one price. macOS 13 or later. Windows 10 version 1903 or later, or Windows 11. A user install on Windows needs no admin rights.
- It types into any chart. Nothing is installed on the EHR side and there is no plugin for IT to approve. The text goes wherever your cursor is.
- Encrypted backups to your own iCloud Drive or a folder you choose.
- An audit log. Each transcription is recorded in a chained log, so edits to past entries are detectable.
- A Help Center written for Healthcare, with step by step guides, a Switching from Dragon section and short help videos inside the app. The guides work offline.
- Team plans for 2 to 20 seats, with a dashboard that shows every licence in the practice and lets you move a seat when someone leaves. More than 20 seats? Contact us.
One thing to know before you buy. Healthcare Edition is dictation: you speak the note and it types it, and you read it before you sign it. An ambient scribe records the visit and drafts the note for you, and that is a different tool. If you already know what your note says and you want it in the chart quickly, this is the tool for that job.
THE REASON WHY
Why it costs so much less
We do not pay for speech servers in the cloud. The recognition runs on your own Mac or PC, so there are no servers to run for your dictation, and we pass that saving on to you. That is how Healthcare Edition costs $297 a year, against $1,713 for a first year of Dragon Medical One at the reseller price above: $1,416 that stays with you in the first year, and $891 in each year after that.
What you pay
Healthcare Edition is $297 a year, or $34.99 a month. The price is the same on Mac and Windows. Dictation is unlimited, and there is no implementation fee. Pricing details for Healthcare Edition.
For a practice, Team plans cover 2 to 20 seats at $267 per seat per year, billed at purchase. The seats float: when someone leaves, you release their seat and give it to the next person. More than 20 seats? Contact us.
First year, a three provider practice
Dragon Medical One figures from www.dragonmedicalsoftware.com/products/dragon-medical-one-cloud-based-speech-recognition, checked 6 November 2026. VoicePrivate prices from voiceprivate.com/healthcare/pricing.
HOW TO START
Here is exactly what to do
- In the box below, choose annual ($297 a year) or monthly ($34.99 a month), or the Team row for 2 to 20 seats, and pay by card. More than 20 seats? Contact us.
- Open the email we send you. Your licence key and the download links for Mac and Windows are in it.
- Install on your Mac (macOS 13 or later) or your PC (Windows 10 version 1903 or later, or Windows 11), and allow the microphone.
- If you have a Dragon word list, open the Personal Dictionary and click Import.
- Click into a document, press Command+Shift+Space on a Mac or Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows, speak, and press the shortcut again. Read the text where it lands.
YOUR 30 DAYS
Use it on a month of real work, then decide
There is no free trial. Here is what we do instead, and I think it is better for you.
Buy an individual monthly or annual plan. Install it. Dictate your real notes for 30 days, in your own chart, with your own patients' medications and your own specialty's words.
If Healthcare Edition has not earned its place on your computer, email [email protected] within 30 days of your first payment. We refund that payment in full. You do not need to give a reason.
The terms, in plain words: the guarantee covers the first payment of a new individual subscription, once per customer. Renewals and Team plans are not covered. When we refund, we cancel the subscription and the licence key stops working. The full policy is on the refund page.
BEFORE YOU BUY
Four quick answers.
- When am I charged?
- Today, at checkout. Annual plans renew each year and monthly plans each month, until you cancel.
- Do I need a card?
- Yes. You pay by card through Stripe. There is no free trial; the 30-day money-back guarantee takes its place.
- Does my dictation audio leave my computer?
- No. Speech recognition runs on your Mac or PC, and VoicePrivate does not upload your dictation audio or transcript text to its servers.
- What if it is not right for me?
- Email [email protected] within 30 days of your first payment for a full refund. The guarantee covers individual plans, once per customer, so a practice or firm can try one plan first and then add Team seats.
VoicePrivate Healthcare$297 billed today, then yearly. 30-day money-back guarantee.
$297$34.99Unlimited on-device dictation
Mac and Windows
Drug and dose handling
Voice commands you make yourself
Personal dictionary, vocabulary sets and text shortcuts
Import your vocabulary from Dragon, Excel or CSV
Help Center with videos
Billed today. 30-day money-back guarantee.
Team, 2 to 20 seats$267 per seat per year, billed todayTry it first: start with one individual plan, covered by the 30-day refund, then add your team. More than 20 seats? Contact us.
If your Dragon renewal is coming up, compare before you sign another term. VoicePrivate's Dragon Medical One contract and reseller price list shows every term, and the guide to Dragon Medical One vs Dragon Copilot for physician dictation shows what carries over if you are moved to Copilot.
P.S. Healthcare Edition is $297 a year on your own Mac or PC, with more than 74,000 medical terms. Your Dragon word list comes with you in one import, so the words you taught Dragon are there on day one. That is $1,416 less than a first year of Dragon Medical One at the reseller price above. Dictate a month of real notes. If it has not earned its place, email us within 30 days of your first payment and you get that payment back.
The details behind the letter above: answers to common questions and related guides.
BY SPECIALTY
Medical dictation by specialty: 32 clinical specialties plus General
These pages cover how the dictation fits each specialty's documentation: the report structure, the vocabulary that trips up general speech engines, and where the notes get written.
Dictation is not only for the chart. Neurology practices comparing texting, phone automation and intake platforms can use VoicePrivate's neurology patient communications software guide to see which jobs those platforms cover and which letters and portal replies the neurologist still writes.
Searching for a medical voice assistant? The name covers phone agents for patients, nurse charting assistants, ambient scribes and dictation with voice commands, and VoicePrivate's guide to choosing between medical voice assistants by job and price shows where Healthcare Edition fits. If you are weighing a scribe, the cloud vs local medical scribe comparison sets out where each one processes the visit.
Buying for a whole practice or hospital? VoicePrivate's guide to healthcare dictation systems compared by type, cost and audio path covers recorded dictation, Dragon Medical One, EHR vendor dictation and ambient scribes next to Healthcare Edition. For the hands-on side, see how dictating into Epic and other EHRs works, or the physician dictation software guide.
QUESTIONS
Medical dictation and voice recognition software, answered
What is medical dictation software?
Medical dictation software turns a clinician's spoken words into typed text, so a note is spoken instead of typed. VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition does this on your own Windows PC or Mac, with 74,000+ medical terms built in, and types the result into whichever application holds keyboard focus. It is dictation, not a scribe: it does not record the visit or draft the note for you.
What do doctors use for dictation?
Doctors get notes written through four routes. Three are dictation: a recorder or phone line feeding a transcriptionist, cloud speech recognition such as Dragon Medical One, or on-device dictation such as VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition, which types the note into the EHR when the doctor stops recording and keeps the audio on the Windows PC or Mac. The fourth is not dictation: an ambient AI scribe records the visit and drafts the note itself. The right route depends on how fast the text has to appear and where the practice lets patient audio go.
Is medical voice recognition software the same as medical speech to text?
In practice, yes. Medical voice recognition, medical speech recognition and medical speech to text all describe software that turns spoken clinical language into written text. What differs between products is where the recognition runs, which vocabulary it knows and whether it also records visits. VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition runs recognition on your own computer with a 74,000+ term medical dictionary, and it does not record visits.
How accurate is medical voice recognition software?
No single accuracy figure holds for every clinician, because results depend on your microphone, your accent, the room and whether the software knows your specialty's words. Test it on a week of your own notes and read every line before you sign. VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition ships 75,374 medical terms, lets you import your Dragon word list, and adds a word to your Personal Dictionary once you have corrected it three times.
Is medical voice recognition software safe to use with patient information?
That depends on where the software sends the recording. Cloud products send your voice to a vendor's servers to be recognized, so the vendor's contract and security matter. VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition recognizes speech on your own Mac or Windows PC and does not upload dictation audio. Licence checks and updates use the internet but carry no recordings or note text, and the optional encrypted backup goes to your own iCloud Drive or a folder you choose.
Is there medical voice recognition software for Mac?
Yes. VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition runs natively on macOS 13 or later at the same price as on Windows, and on a Mac you can choose one of 32 specialty vocabularies. Dragon Medical One does not: Microsoft lists Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server as its supported systems, so a Mac user reaches it through a Windows virtual machine or a remote desktop. Apple Dictation is free on the Mac but has no medical term list.
What is the best medical dictation software for Windows?
It depends on where you are willing to let patient audio go. VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition fits clinicians who want recognition to stay on the Windows PC: it runs on Windows 10 version 1903 or later and Windows 11, includes 74,000+ medical terms, and needs no connection to transcribe. Dragon Medical One is the established Windows option if you want deep EHR voice commands and your organization accepts cloud processing at $99 per provider per month (reseller list price at dragonmedicalsoftware.com, checked 6 November 2026). Windows Voice Typing is free, but Microsoft states you need to be connected to the internet and that it is powered by Azure Speech services.
What is the best dictation program for PC?
For general writing on a PC, Windows Voice Typing is already installed and costs nothing. For clinical work on a PC, VoicePrivate Healthcare Edition adds a 74,000 term medical dictionary, keeps the audio on the machine, and types into the EHR window you already have open. The practical split is free and cloud based, or paid and local.
Does VoicePrivate work inside Epic, Cerner or a browser based EHR on Windows?
VoicePrivate types into whichever Windows application holds keyboard focus, so the note lands in the EHR text box already open in front of you, desktop client or browser portal. Nothing is installed on the EHR side and there is no plugin for IT to approve. What VoicePrivate does not do is write structured fields back into the chart the way an ambient scribe integration does.
What is the difference between medical speech recognition and a cloud AI scribe?
Medical speech recognition turns what you say into text. A cloud ambient scribe records the whole patient visit and drafts a note, and most send the audio to a vendor for processing. VoicePrivate is the first kind: you dictate, recognition runs on your computer, and your audio and transcripts are not sent to our servers.
What changed
- November 2026: re-checked the Dragon Medical One prices ($99 a month on a one year term, $79 on three years, $525 fee, unchanged) and added the short answer, Key facts, the three kinds of medical voice recognition software, the counted feature table, a Mac section and three answers on accuracy, patient information and Mac (6 November 2026).
- November 2026: added the guide to healthcare dictation systems to the reading list (6 November 2026).
- October 2026: added the medical voice to text converter and medical voice assistant guides (26 and 27 October 2026).
- October 2026: rewrote the page as a long letter with the Dragon Medical One price math and its sources, the demo video and the Team row for 2 to 20 seats (24 October 2026).
- October 2026: corrected the copy to say text is typed when you stop recording, not live as you speak (23 October 2026).
- October 2026: replaced the card trial with buy now and a 30-day money-back guarantee (8 October 2026).