Nuance, the makers of Dragon NaturallySpeaking (the world’s most popular voice recognition software), have released a new iPhone App that lets you dictate emails, blog posts, SMS text messages or any other text straight into your iPhone without having to use the keyboard.
Voice Recognition App for iPhone
Called Dragon Dictation, this voice recognition app for your iPhone sports a minimal interface. Just tap the screen and start dictating. Your speech will be recorded and transcribed into text that you can then send as an SMS, email or copy it to the iPhone clipboard and paste into any other iPhone application.
The Dragon Dictation app is available on the iTunes store as a free download for a limited time but only in the US store. That means you’ll not be able to use the Dragon application if your iTunes account is associated with a non-US address.
Here’s a video demo on how to use Dragon Dictation.
To correct any dictated text, you can either top on a word to get a drop-down list of alternative suggestions or you can tap the keyboard icon on the bottom left corner and use the standard iPhone text editing feature.
The voice transcription happens on Nuance servers (and not on your phone) so you’ll need an active Wi-Fi or 3G data connection to send your recorded voice and receive transcribed text back from Nuance.
Dragon Dictation is available for original iPhone 2G, 3G and the latest iPhone 3Gs but your phone must be running at least iPhone OS 3.1.
The company is also working on a separate voice recognition app for search that will let you search Google, Bing, and other search engines using voice commands. The Google mobile app for iPhone too includes voice recognition capabilities but with Dragon Search, you’ll be able to search multiple places in one go include YouTube and Twitter.
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Reader Comments
Looks very cool. Any chance of an Android app coming soon?
Written by Nicholas Barry on 12.09.09
Hey dude thats very amazing that we can now dictate on the phone instead of typing a massage. And this software known as Nuance, is very much helpful.
Written by Nash on 12.09.09
I’ve been using NaturallySpeaking for almost a year now and I say it’s a very practical software for anyone who works with computer a lot.
Digital Dictation is a natural progression of this technology and I hope they develop a version for Android as well since I’m using HTC Magic :)
Written by Viral Ideas on 12.09.09
Is this only available for iphones or can it be used on a Blackberry?
Written by Sheila Nichol on 12.09.09
Sheila – Dragon Dictation is a speech recognition app for iPhone only (it won’t even work with iPod Touch). However Nuance is working on a separate voice recognition software for BlackBerry though I think it’s under private beta testing.
Written by Amit on 12.10.09