Dragon Legal Anywhere Essentials is a streamlined 12-month subscription to Australia’s top-rated cloud-based speech recognition solution for legal professionals. Designed for confident users who don’t require training or ongoing support, it includes 30 days of VoiceX support. Perfect for legal professionals who want power without the extras.
Cloud-based legal speech recognition, designed for confident users seeking a fast and flexible dictation experience.
Dragon Legal Anywhere Essentials includes the desktop Dragon Bar for dictation into any Windows. Essentials includes 30 days VoiceX support. Ideal for self-starters or users familiar with Dragon.
Legal Vocabulary: Includes common legal terms, statutes, and case law references.
Accurate & Fast Dictation: Cloud-hosted, deep learning speech engine with 99%+ accuracy.
Works on Any Windows PC: No local install with minimum admin permissions required.
Real-Time Dictation: Dictate directly into MS Word, Outlook, or your legal practice software.
Anchor Focus Dictation: Dictate while multitasking across apps.
Always Up To Date: Automatic updates ensure you're always on the latest release.
What’s Included with Dragon Legal Anywhere Essentials
VoiceX Support Includes 30 days of local expert assistance.
Cloud Hosted Secure, encrypted, and managed in Microsoft Azure.
Legal Vocabulary Pre-loaded with legal terms and phrases.
Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance
Dragon Legal Anywhere is a Nuance-hosted solution built on Microsoft Azure's Australian data centres. This ensures your legal data remains sovereign, secure, and fully compliant with local regulatory requirements.
Australian Data Hosting: All data is stored and processed in Azure’s Sydney-based data centres.
End-to-End Encryption: AES 256-bit encryption applied in transit and at rest.
Industry Certifications: Hosted infrastructure is ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, and HIPAA-compliant.
No Local Data Storage: Nothing is stored on local devices, ensuring maximum confidentiality.
Backed by Microsoft & Nuance: A globally trusted infrastructure partnership built for legal-grade reliability.
VoiceX is your certified Australian implementation and support partner. While we do not host the solution, we ensure seamless configuration, deployment, and frontline support for all Dragon Legal Anywhere users.
What Happens Next?
Once you place your order, a VoiceX team member will contact you to confirm your preferred setup time. We will then:
Create your Dragon Legal Anywhere author profile
Email you full installation and login details
Book your onboarding session
Deliver your included training
Activate unlimited support access
Typical turnaround for access to your Dragon Legal Anywhere account is within 1–24 business hours. All Dragon user profiles supplied by VoiceX are hosted locally on Microsoft Azure in Australia.
Best Microphone for Dragon Speech Recognition
Using a high-quality microphone is essential to unlocking Dragon’s full accuracy potential. Low-grade or built-in mics can result in background noise interference, misrecognitions, and wasted time correcting errors—especially in busy clinical environments.
The Philips SpeechMike Premium (LFH3700) is widely considered the best microphone for Dragon. It features a free-floating studio-quality mic for noise isolation, antimicrobial housing, ergonomic push-to-talk control, and seamless USB plug-and-play integration—making it a favourite among Australian healthcare professionals.
Dragon Legal Anywhere can also be licensed as an add-on to your existing Philips SpeechLive subscription. This allows you to dictate in real time, or submit audio recordings for background transcription using Dragon’s legal speech engine. Perfect for firms already using SpeechLive dictation workflows.
Operating System: Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) with the latest updates applied
.NET Framework: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 or higher
Processor: Intel Core or AMD Ryzen CPU
RAM: 4 GB minimum
Internet Connection: Minimum 1 Mbps stable connection
Web Browser: Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge (latest versions)
Microphones: A high-quality dictation microphone is recommended for optimal accuracy. The built-in microphone on your device can be used, but may reduce performance in noisy environments.
Dragon Internet Access & Firewall Requirements
Dragon Professional Anywhere / Legal Anywhere is a secure, cloud-based speech recognition solution. To ensure proper connectivity, please allow access to the following domains and ports:
URL Address
Ports
Purpose
*.nuance.com
80
Software distribution, installation & training content
*.ordiginal.com
443
Secure speech recognition data channel
If you are experiencing connectivity issues, please contact your IT administrator to ensure access is not being blocked by firewalls, proxies, or content filters.
Looking for Dragon Support?
Contact the fully Nuance-authorised Dragon Support Team at VoiceX for further technical information, support, or configuration advice.
Yes! You can register for a free 14-day trial to Dragon Legal Anywhere with Australian based support direct from Australia's largest Speech Recognition Specialist and Authorised Nuance Support & Training Partner - VoiceX Communications.
Dragon Legal Anywhere Trial Process
Please note that a unique Dragon Author Profile is required to be created by Nuance for each user wishing to trial Dragon Legal Anywhere. This will take 24-48 business hours.
Once this has been created, each user will be emailed their unique login details and instructions.
At the commencement of the trial please feel free to contact our office on 1300 551 778 to arrange for one of our consultants remotely guide you through some basic tuition so you can confidently begin your trial. Remember that a comprehensive 1-hour training session (one-on-one) is included with your paid subscription.
If you have any queries please contact our team on 1300 551 778 or email us at support@voicex.com.au
Mac Users Please Note: Dragon Legal Anywhere requires a Windows operating system. If you are a Mac user please contact our support team on 1300 551 778 for options on using Dragon Legal Anywhere in a Mac environment before registering for a trial
Is Dragon Legal Anywhere compatible with Apple Mac OS?
No. Unfortunately, Nuance no longer produces any speech recognition products compatible with Apple Mac OS.
Dragon Legal Anywhere cannot run natively on macOS, it CAN still be used on macOS machines in one of the following ways:
VMWare Fusion for Mac or Parallels® – These applications run a Windows operating system “virtually” within macOS. Any version of Dragon can then be installed on this virtual OS and natively control other Windows applications. Dictated text can be copied across platforms into applications running on macOS if required. Dragon cloud-based speech recognition solutions such as Dragon Legal Anywhere is particularly well suited to this approach since it is very lightweight so minimal resources need to be allocated to the Windows OS. Other Dragon software versions (such as Dragon Professional Individual & Dragon Professional Group) will also work this way, however, system resources must be considered. A Philips SpeechMike or other USB microphone can be used with this approach.
Apple Boot Camp – This approach splits your Mac’s disk into two parts – one for macOS and one for Windows – allowing Windows applications like Dragon to be used as though your Mac were a Windows PC. Your macOS applications will not be available while running Windows, however, system resources are less of a concern as Windows will have access to all that is available. The virtual OS approach is still preferred where there are sufficient resources available to run both operating systems simultaneously.
The VoiceX Support Team will be more than happy to discuss your requirements and assist you with selecting the option that will best suit your needs and let you run Dragon Legal Anywhere on your Apple Mac hardware.
Can I share my Dragon Legal Anywhere with other users?
No. As with all Dragon products, Dragon Legal Anywhere, Dragon Professional Anywhere, Dragon Professional Group and Dragon Professional Individual are licensed per author. During set-up, each user creates their own unique Dragon Voice Profile. A Dragon user profile is a set of files that Dragon uses to process what you dictate. Your Dragon user profile stores unique acoustic and language information, as well as system preferences and settings as well as the type of microphone you use, custom words, and vocabulary.
Sharing a Dragon profile with other authors is in breach of the Nuance end-user-license agreement (EULA) and will also significantly affect the Dragon profile accuracy. Multiple logins to the cloud platform simultaneously may also result in users being "locked-out" and data loss.
Can I install Dragon Legal Anywhere on multiple computers?
Yes! Dragon Legal Anywhere can be installed and accessed from an unlimited number of computers. Dragon Legal Anywhere is licensed per author and there are no dictation or hardware limits. Authors can also log-in and use their Dragon Legal Anywhere Profile on their mobile device (iOS and Android compatible) with the included Dragon Anywhere Mobile App.
How often do I renew Dragon Legal Anywhere?
Dragon Legal Anywhere is a minimum 12-month subscription. VoiceX can tailor a subscription option to suit your firms budget.
Can I use Dragon Legal Anywhere to transcribe a pre-recorded dictation?
Yes, when Dragon Legal Anywhere is used in conjunction with the optional SpeechExec Enterprise+ SpeechKit solution authors - or their support staff/typists - can submit pre-recorded dictation for background speech-to-text conversion. Once transcribed by Dragon the resulting text can be proofread, corrected and formatted by either the author or support staff with the aid of the partnering audio.
SpeechExec Enterprise is a complete end-to-end dictation and transcription management solution and can be an on-premise solution or hosted by VoiceX.
Note: Dragon Legal Anywhere must be partnered with SpeechExec Enterprise + SpeechKit for background speech recognition. Speech-to-text conversion of a pre-recorded dictation is not available as standard with Dragon Legal Anywhere.
How long does it take for Dragon Legal Anywhere to be set up?
Please allow between 24-48 business hours for your Dragon Legal Anywhere profile to be created from order confirmation. A welcome kit that will include each user's log-in details and application download link will be emailed upon the profile creation.
Can I upgrade from Dragon Professional/Legal Individual / Group to Dragon Legal Anywhere?
VoiceX offers existing Dragon software users special "upgrade/loyalty discounts". View our full range of subscription options here.
Dragon Legal Anywhere however is a completely different technology platform and being a cloud-based solution means you can not "upgrade" your existing software or profile. You can however export your existing Dragon profile customisations, such as custom words and import these into your new Dragon Legal Anywhere profile.
What microphone is best for Dragon Legal Anywhere Speech Recognition?
Selecting the right kind of microphone to suit how you dictate, where you dictate and what applications you dictate into is can make all the difference when it comes to your speech recognition accuracy.
Microphones should be noise-cancelling - preferably with noise-isolating features - and designed with speech recognition in mind.
It is also important to consider what your main objective is for speech recognition when selecting your microphone style. For example, if you are wanting to dictate directly into and navigate around a template or practice management software - you may wish to consider a USB Dictation Microphone such as the Philips SpeechMike Premium which was designed specifically for use with speech recognition.
There are many different styles of microphones that can be used for speech recognition, including; handheld microphones with navigation control (such as SpeechMike Premium and Nuance PowerMic III ) and of course headset microphones for those who require hands-free way of working.
Contact us to speak with one of our speech recognition specialists for advice.
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