Nuance PowerMic III Microphone for Dragon (Non-Healthcare), 9 Ft Cord, Dictate Documents and Control your PC – all by Voice, [PC Disc], Black

I purchased this powermic III to dictate notes from home. Our EMR is Epic with Dragon Medical built in. The mic functions perfectly and captures my voice accurately for dictaction. However none of the buttons are supported and have no functionality. Attempting to configure/assign buttons with Dragon via Options does not make them functional either. The "next field" "previous field" buttons are extremly helpful navigating through our note template. There is no way to force assign the buttons on the Powermic through Windows 11 either. Not having the functinality is a deal breaker for me... if I have to press F2 to navigate the required epic note fields then this Powermic is worthless. I could just use any mic I have. Secondly, windows recognizes this mic device as a "Powermic II" and NOT a "Powermic III." Someone else noted this in another review. Older reviews from 2019 show that the mic works as intened so not sure if this is a newer windows (I am using Windows 11 Pro) issue. I also do not have a physical version installed on my home work computer; just using it with Epic with Dragon via citrix receiver. Hopefully this helps someone else trying to acheive what I needed. Edit: I got the power mic buttons to function. I use Epic/dragon via citrix receiver. You need to download the citrix receiver extentions (will also give you the functionality for phillps mic too) for dragon onto your work/home computer if you are using dragon via EPIC and citrix. Works perfectly. I found them myself but you may need to talk with your IT folks in your system.

I'm unsure when this product started. I just ran into it about three weeks ago and gave it a try. I wished I had this magical thing five years ago. You plug it into any USB port on your PC. I'm using it on two systems, my PC and my MacBook Pro. I use it on my MacBook's Parallel installed Windows 8.1 share. Both of my machines are high-end performance. It works flawlessly on both. I will not be inclined to use it on Mac OS by itself. The handheld wand is perfect. I found the mouse control buttons awkward, however. They are absolutely not necessary to enjoy this product. The microphone is marvelous, noise canceling. I have fans and noise around this thing and it does not bother it. I use it both professionally and for hobby writing. I'm in the medical profession. I dictate medical reports with this utilizing my ordinary Nuance professional individual and not the medical program by the way. It works excellently in that environment. I'm older in age and my finger joints are getting intolerant of typing. That is no longer a problem with this device and software. Make sure you get the 9 foot cord, I would find the shorter one annoying. It's worth the extra money. I'm not sure what else to say other than if you like Nuance Dragon, you must have this device. As I said, this is a game changer for the software and I stand by that. By the way? I dictated this entire review using the powermic III with Dragon professional individual by Nuance.

Best working PowerMicIII ever. Like the small cord. Unlike the long cord model it works with any USB port (i.e. works on the monitor USB port too).

I purchased the PowerMic III to dictate into the Dragon Medical One Citrix-based software suite for our Epic electronic medical record. I would say that the dictation quality is excellent. It is an expensive tool/toy, however, it is worth it if you are using it all day to dictate patient encounters. The build quality is pretty good and the buttons have a good tactile feel. The microphone sensitivity is just right. The "press to talk" feature is worth the high price - you can dictate in the room with noisy patients (in pediatrics) and still get accurate speech recognition. This tool is far better than the Nuance PowerMic Mobile software that you can use on your smartphone, IMHO, if you are only using one laptop or workstation to dictate all your notes. I purchased the PowerMic III with the 9 foot cord. The cord quality is good, but you need to know how to manage your cable to keep it out of the way and untwisted. I ended up purchasing a short coil cord replacement here on Amazon for better convenience for my mobile laptop workstation. My only complaint is that I do not have full button functionality and customizability right now with the Dragon Medical One software system. I have called customer service and they affirm that this is a glitch right now. I can only customize 6 out of the 13 buttons available. I wish I could use all the buttons. What you cannot see in the website picture is a button on the underside of the PowerMic III for your pointer finger. This defaults to a left-mouse click. It would be great to customize this button as well, or inactivate it, as it could be easy to unintentionally push if you keep your finger there. The Nuance help desk is pretty helpful. They helped me figure out how to get the Citrix drivers onto my laptop and working in order to get the Nuance PowerMic III to work with my system. It was not just plug and play - but the help desk was good. I would purchase this again if I needed to. Or ideally, have your practice buy it for you!

From Amazon, I purchased the Nuance PowerMic III for Dragon 15 at ~ $350, along with ~$300 Dragon Professional 15 software. The only software I could find to download was for the PowerMic II. Some of the buttons on the PowerMic III did not work, nor could they be programmed. For example, the tab backward button did not work. So I called Nuance. Due to poor connection with the Nuance support team and other challenges, I was not able to adequate communicate with the Nuance technical support team. because I did not understand them. They repeatedly wanted my customer service number. I asked where I could find this number. They did not know. I explained my problem with the buttons. I was told this was a known problem of this device, and it would hopefully be fixed with the next updated software. Again, this is a $350 piece of new equipment. I asked for an estimate when I might receive the update. I asked if it would be 10 days, 10 weeks, 10 months, or 10 years. They refused to commit. Based on this call, I suppose I might be waiting a decade or so before my $350 device works as promised. The technical support people recommended I use my keyboard, which since Dragon 15 works with the computer mic, sort of negates the need for a separate $350 mic. Given I spent > $500 spent on a a Dragon mic and software, I would have preferred the mic buttons worked.

I bought this microphone about a year ago. I have experienced every frustration that a human being can endure with microphones for Dragon in the some 20 years I have struggling to enter the voice-to-text paradise. This is about as good as they get. I have a condenser now that is better. I want to apeople to price. There is a Fifine microphone Fifine microphone on sale here for 59.95 that comes with a stand that is every bit as good as this I am adding this. If you listen to Vladímir Putin (have patience now) in this disgusting “help” of Ukraine. ( my history with this subject goes back to the 1970s but that’s another matter. ) You can compare Dragon advertising (five star) and it’s truth in advertising and support (two stars) to the invasion of Ukraine to Dragon advertising and its explanation of the murder picnic to the Russian people’s knowledge about Ukraine to the Customer Service involvement. Everything is hyperbole. Everything is the miracles that every bit of American advertising depends on. Life in America has a solution for your frustrations right around the corner and it will soon be available on Amazon. I quote from the opening of the description of the product right here on the Amazon website: “Achieve new levels of dictation speed, ease-of-use and productivity. For professionals such as police officers, doctors, lawyers, insurance adjusters, social service workers or anyone who is tasked with high levels of dictation or often works away from the office, Nuance PowerMic III is ideal.” I can’t say this is a lie. It’s become the way of the world to distort, to put it mildly, what you have to cure the ills of the world. I am something of an expert on Dragon. I’m not sure it was even called Dragon then—it was when the company operated out of a little store in Beverley (sp?), Massachusetts. It would’ve been Dragon 2.1 or something. The deception started because nothing but the IBM stand-alone computer had enough power to operate it. They knew that. But! Like Amazon hawking face identification to the police departments, it was using the public as free testing grounds. Everything in the opening two sentences above is the word I have come up with to describe the rhetorical devices used to swell the latest technological piece of equipment to make your life better. The word is lieth. Half lie but based on truth somewhere. Some frustrations. 1) I used to pay $99 for the DVD and could put it in as many machines of mine that I wanted; now, if you pay the$500 they want, they make it so god-damn difficult to get the promised usage fulfilled, you’ll go nuts trying to get it done. Then the accuracy thing. It depends on what you’re talking about. Try this: “Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.” Extreme you may say. OK. Fair enough. Not everyone who uses Dragon is trying to justify a war—not easy. But I am a writer. I don’t expect miracles. But yesterday, I spent 3 hours using five different microphones and four computers ( one virtually new) to try to get this book moving along. I used to have a secretary, so I never had to try to make a fair copy of a book using voice before. It seemed like a wonderful solution. Yesterday result: About 100 words or about one word every two minutes. This whole technology thing is ultimately a big rip off. If you’re writing two-sentence memos using two syllables of less per word, it is indeed a miracle. And although I am 80% paralyzed ( so I can relate), some people can’t type etc. so it’s a great help for them. However, it is dismayingly hyped. It needs better everything. Every Dragon, etc., microphone, headphones should be rated by people who are like me and able to do a completely independent evaluation. For example: a scale of one to ten as to how well, how quickly, and with what equipment you are using to produce a 95% error rate dictating the Get a burger as dressed. Scratch that. The Gettysburg Address.

I'm dictating this review with the PowerMic. While sometimes it messes up words, this is not an ordinary occurrence. When it does, you need to correct the mistake using the Dragon software, or else it will not learn from it. The really nice thing about Dragon is that it adapts to your speaking style rather than you having to adapt to it as with other speech recognition platforms, such as Apple's Siri or Google Assistant. Of course, this makes sense as you are paying a premium price for the software and this hardware to go with it. Overall, I think that this is a terrific deal for the price and will significantly affect your productivity with Dragon. One of the nice features that I like is that the record button is a push to talk by default, but this can be changed if you want to (some people might not like having to hold down the button while they are dictating, but for me, it is a good thing. I like to say things spontaneously while dictating that I do not want in the document). Another thing that I like is the ability to pick up spoken words even at a very low volume and with lots of background noise. I have dictated in the hot desk area of a WeWork, and people around me could not tell what was going on, but the PowerMic worked just fine. Compare this with a regular USB headset, and Dragon picked up words that I did not say, and the software was practically useless. There are also several configurable buttons on this device that can control various functions of Dragon software. For example, I have one set to train new words if I find that a word that I need is not in Dragon's vocabulary. When you're first getting started with the software, this will frequently happen with words specific to your profession or products of your company. As you go on with the software, you will notice its accuracy dramatically increases with every use. At this point, I can't imagine writing without Dragon and have only had this product for approximately a month.

I purchased this because it was made by the same company as Dragon, and therefore clearly designed for and optimized. I believe the transcription is excellent, the accuracy of the Mike is very good, but there are couple of problems. The trackpad is abysmal, it is way too sensitive and even under the best of circumstances on my (high-resolution) monitor I am unable to successfully use it. The microphone is made of a hard smooth plastic, I find it harder to grip than the Philips SpeechMike which I use at work.whether the longevity of plastic is better or worse than the metal of this SpeechMike has yet to be determined. The buttons are a little bit more prominent, and I think they are a little stiffer and less likely to be accidentally pressed. I find this a good thing. Sound quality is typical for a microphone, it is adequate. Unfortunately, Windows keeps wanting to use it as my overall speaker, and I keep having to switch back.that is probably a Windows problem. In summary, considering this is a fairly expensive specialty device, and for what it actually is I expected it to be flawless and thus the rating. as a dictation microphone for computer transcription and use in a controlled environment, I find it acceptable.

After spending hours and hours being shunted from pillar to post on the telephone, I finally learned that my PowerMic III is no longer under warranty because I bought it from North America in spite of the warranty being listed as two years on the Internet. I was told this Internet information only applies to Great Britain. I was also told it would cost me over $200 just to get this PowerMic III fixed! I am disappointed and angry as I feel Nuance is using bait and switch techniques. I do not believe Nuance products should be listed on Amazon.

Je reviens sur mon commentaire de 2018. Le bouton de dictée est difficile à utiliser car ils restent souvent bloqués en position dictée. Ou alors il ne fonctionne pas du tout. Avec le temps, ce produit vieillit mal.

Our hospital recently installed EPIC. Was using Dragon on my iPhone. Not very convenient. Bought the PowerMicIII. Works great. Convenient. Easy to install.

I use voice dictation because I am disabled. I got this microphone because it is recommended by Nuance, who produced the excellent DragonDictate voice dictation software. The microphone is almost certainly a very good microphone, but it needs to be held between one and 3 inches to the side of your mouth. It also has some buttons which enable you to use it as a mouse, but how you are supposed to use these while holding it next to your mouth, particularly if your hands don't work very well, is a real puzzle. So I sent the Nuance microphone back, and purchased a £25 desktop microphone which works perfectly well and is much more suited to my needs. Hopefully this review will save some people £185!

Arrived one day late with Prime but otherwise product exactly what was expected and works perfectly.