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  • Nuance Launches Voice-powered Dragon Search App For iPhone

    Nuance Launches Voice-powered Dragon Search App For iPhone

    Hot on the heels of the launch of their Dragon Dictation app (and a short-lived and mostly overblown privacy scandal), Nuance has just launched a second iPhone application: Dragon Search. Heralded by Nuance as the "fast, accurate, and smart way to search online content on your iPhone", Dragon Search allows iPhone users to search across Google, Yahoo!, Bing, iTunes, Twitter, Wiki, or YouTube by speaking their search terms.

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  • IM+ 3.4 to support Speech Recognition for Twitter and IM (for a price)

    IM+ 3.4 to support Speech Recognition for Twitter and IM (for a price)

    Unlike some people around these parts, I loves me some Twitter (psst, follow me.) Thing is, just about every time I get a chance to tweet, I can't. Maybe my hands are covered in grease as I'm stuffing my face with a delicious burger; maybe I just don't want to come home from a long day of blogging and have to squeeze my thoughts into 140 characters with my iPhone's made-for-babies keyboard. Voice recognition Twitter apps are intriguing, but none of the major Twitter clients have it yet (as far as I know), and I'm just not hardcore enough to drop money on any apps that might offer voice-tweeting as its sole functionality. Fortunately, an already worthwhile app has come along and solved all my problems via upgrade.

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