The company is banking on the fact that potential users have gotten used to speaking to their devices. 7, Dragon Naturally Speaking version 10 includes several improvements and enhancements that advances the state of speech-recognition software. Now, with version 10 hitting the market, Nuance is hoping that the latest iteration of Dragon Naturally Speaking will do the trick. Case in point, Nuance software has successfully released several versions of its Dragon Naturally Speaking software, each version successively better than the previous.
While the reasons may be hard to pinpoint, we can assume that it is not due to a lack of technological progress. Although voice recognition and dictation software has been around for quite some time, it really has never taken off as one would expect.