Nuance Communications’ handy little Dragon Dictation App has been released to the North America App Store today, and is actually available as a free download for a limited time. Use it to speak your emails and text messages instead of typing them out. The App will also work with the iPhone clipboard, enabling you to paste your notes into other Apps such as Facebook and Twitter.
“Dragon Dictation takes the messaging experience on the revolutionary iPhone to a whole new level,” said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “Dragon Dictation is also incredibly natural and intuitive. Users will soon find they’re speaking more than typing using the power of speech to communicate even faster, whatever they’re doing and wherever they are”
The App works like this: when you speak into the iPhone’s microphone, your words are instantly transcribed using the Dragon Naturally Speaking Speech recognition. You can stop and start as much as you like, or speak freeform if you just want to record random thoughts on the fly.
Check out the video below to see the App in action:
December 9, 2009
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Users have stated that this program grabs all your contact list information and then sends it and stores it in the their computer system. If that is the case, that is not cool. So beware. Check the feedback on iTunes before down loading.