AI product readChrome bridge/connector enabling Dragon Medical One and related Nuance speech recognition products to work in web-based applications via native messaging
Enables healthcare professionals and enterprise users to use Dragon voice dictation directly within web applications (especially EHR systems like athenahealth and Meditech) instead of being limited to desktop applications
User installs extension alongside locally installed Dragon software → Extension injects content scripts into all web pages → When user focuses a text field, extension detects the editor type and connects to Dragon via native messaging host → User dictates via Dragon microphone → Speech is transcribed and inserted into the web text field → For EHR systems, patient context is automatically extracted and sent to Dragon for enhanced clinical documentation
Voice dictation bridge to web text fields (contenteditable, CKEditor, plain text, Google Docs)Patient context extraction from EHR systems (athenahealth, Meditech)Native messaging integration with locally installed Dragon softwareVoice command support for web page navigation (click links, show links)SSO integration for DMO authenticationSpeech-to-text in web-based clinical documentation tools
- Target users
- Healthcare professionals using Dragon Medical One or Dragon Medical Direct / Enterprise users of Dragon Professional Anywhere / Legal professionals using Dragon Legal Anywhere / Users of Dragon Case and Care
- Cannot verify the actual native messaging host behavior (com.nuance.sodria) as it requires local Dragon software installed
- Store description mentions video but no URL was captured to verify additional functionality details
MonetizationNo paid features detected
The extension itself is free and contains no payment, subscription, billing, or license-checking code. However, the required destination products (DMO, DMD, DPA, DLA, DCNC) are paid enterprise products from Nuance/Microsoft. The extension acts as a free bridge/connector but requires a paid external product license to function.
- Confidence
- 95
- Payment platform
- --
- Source
- AI / High
- Login required
- Yes
- Reason
- The extension requires a licensed copy of Dragon Medical One (DMO), Dragon Medical Direct (DMD), Dragon Professional Anywhere (DPA), Dragon Legal Anywhere (DLA), or Dragon Case and Care (DCNC) to be installed and running locally. These are paid enterprise products requiring organization-level licensing. The extension itself does not implement login UI - it connects via native messaging host 'com.nuance.sodria' to the local Dragon software. SSO handling exists (background.js:22-30 'LaunchSsoDMO') for passing logged-in user context, not for extension authentication.
PublisherNuance Communications, Inc.
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
- Phone
- +1-857-214-6311
- Address
- 1 Wayside Rd
Burlington, MA 01803-4609
US
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