Nuance Archive

  • Lame: The iPad is banned at Yankee Stadium

    Lame: The iPad is banned at Yankee Stadium

    Bad news, Yankees fans. Apparently the winningest team in the history of sport doesn't want you sitting inside the stadium with an iPad on your lap. That's right: the iPad is banned at Yankee Stadium! So says a poster on one of the IGN messageboards. The Bronx is burning.

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  • Nuance’s Dragon Dictation for E-Mail now available for BlackBerry

    Nuance’s Dragon Dictation for E-Mail now available for BlackBerry

    Typing is hard. I hardly ever type unless I have to. In fact, roughly 80% of MobileCrunch’s operating bills go towards paying a full staff of invisible underlings to write what I say and censor my vulgarity. Unfortunately for the livelihood of the aforementioned underlings, they’re now replaceable by a BlackBerry. Following up on the launch of [...]

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  • Pew Internet report reveals what everyone already knows: Teens like to text

    Pew Internet report reveals what everyone already knows: Teens like to text

    If you've seen a teenager in the last two years, then you've seen a teenager texting. Seriously, I can't think of a situation in the last couple of years where I saw a teenager without a cell phone. The teenagers in my extended family send text messages seemingly all day long, every day. Now the Pew Internet and American Life project has released a pretty comprehensive analysis of teen texting behavior.

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  • Dragon Dictation. On the iPad. For free!

    Dragon Dictation. On the iPad. For free!

    We’ve been yelling at our gadgets for years to get them to work. And with Dragon NaturallySpeaking software from Nuance, they might actually listen. The mobile version, Dragon Dictation, has been available in the Apple apps store for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It got upgraded to version 1.3 today, meaning iPad support. Oh yeah, [...]

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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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  • Nuance launches Dragon Dictation for iPhone – Get it while it’s free!

    Nuance launches Dragon Dictation for iPhone – Get it while it’s free!

    Nuance is one of the most important companies in the mobile space, yet few cell phone owners have any idea who they are. You know that T9 feature that lets you blast out texts on your number pad? That’s theirs. If your phone does text-to-voice or voice transcription, that’s probably their technology too. Nuance’s latest move [...]

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  • Nuance outs free Dragon Dictation for iPhone

    Nuance outs free Dragon Dictation for iPhone

    Talking on your phone is one thing, but talking at your phone makes you look like a crazy person. Of course, virtually everyone on the Engadget masthead is crazy in one sense of the word or another, so we have absolutely no qualms about the release of Nuance's Dragon Dictation for the iPhone, which uses the company's NaturallySpeaking engine to let you transcribe pretty much whatever you like. Of course, seeing how the iPhone lacks multitasking, it uses the clipboard as an intermediary -- talk into the Dragon app, then move over to wherever you want the good and paste 'em. It's free for a limited time, so you might want to grab this one sooner rather than later.

    Nuance outs free Dragon Dictation for iPhone originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Virtual Mirror: augmented reality without glasses

    Virtual Mirror: augmented reality without glasses

    The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute -- the same Fraunhofer that holds many of the patents on MP3 -- have a booth at CEATEC exhibiting some of their research efforts, shopping them around for potential licensees. Their Virtual Mirror display is, I think, a great example of augmented reality done right. It uses a camera, a display, and their special software to dynamically alter the image projected back to the viewer. Video inside!

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  • Employees hate IT

    Employees hate IT

    The IT CrowdSlate's Farhad Manjoo has thrown down the gauntlet by comparing IT workers to the hated TSA goons at airports. I, for one, won't stand to have my hard work besmirched in such a way! Sure, there are some power-hungry jerks working in IT, taking great delight in causing consternation and frustration to hapless users. But not all IT folks are like that.

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