If you’re in search of a decent voice recognition application on iPhone, here it is. Dragon Dictation, a popular speech to text software on PC, is now available on iPhone and it’s completely free.
Powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking technology, Dragon Dictation allows you to easily speak and instantly translates the speech to text. As the company claimed, it’s up to 5 times faster than typing on keyboard.
To dictate on iPhone, simply launch the app, tap on the record button and start talking. For punctuation, you need to speak it out (say, period, comma, question mark, etc). When finish, tap the Finish button and the app instantly converts your speech to text. Once your text is recognized, you can send the text to email, text message or copy it to clipboard and later paste it into other applications.
As Tuaw mentioned, the voice recognition process doesn’t actually run on the iPhone. After recording your speech, the app transmits the data to backend processing server where a speech recognition algorithm is run against your data via WiFi or 3G network. The end result is then sent back to iPhone after recognition. Therefore, to use the app, it’s required to have a data connection.
So, how’s the accuracy? It’s amazingly great and exceeds my expectation. The video you’ll see below demonstrates how great the app is. Even if the app fails to recognize some of the text, the app allows you to use a keyboard to correct it. Dragon Dictation app is now available on US App Store [iTunes link] for free download (but probably for limited time only).
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It’s not available in Canada.
or the UK!?
@Chris, you can register an account in US App Store to download it. Check out the latest post for details.
I have been through the above steps and when I get to the payment page on iTunes there is no option for “none”
Please advise as there are other US apps I’d really like to get!?
Ta – rez
This app downloads all the contacts on your iPhone. Major privacy issue. Even if you don’t car about your own personal information, you have an obligation to protect the individuals on your contacts list.
@megaberl read the privacy statement when you start the application. It looks pretty clear to me that nuance has thought about this privacy issue and clearly explains that it has no interest in knowing who you or your friends are. They are doing this to improve accuracy only and even allow you to opt out. They don’t upload email addresses, addresses or phone numbers. They clearly say they won’t and can’t even contact you or your friends if they wanted to. There’s plenty of reason to be paranoid over privacy these days but I find their policy is clearly written and to me is very believable that they have no interest in abusing their users. Good on them for addressing the issue head on and putting privacy first.
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