Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone. Wow. [iPhone Talk-to-text]

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog ^ | Tuesday, December 8, 2009 | Mel Martin

[Star Traveler]

Okay, I think I'll try this one out. It's going to be free for a while, so everyone can try it... :-)

[Star Traveler]

Talk-to-text on your iPhone... [it’s free for now...]

[Star Traveler]

Apple articles posted on Free Republic...
at least by Star Traveler

• Who Can Kill the iPhone?
• Apple's iTunes overtakes Amazon in overall music sales
• Apple iPhone expected to drive mobile phone industry toward fancier touch screens
• Apple devotees rush stores for iPhone
• Mac users 'ecstatic' about new Apple Store
• Jobs Is Back, Apple's Still Standing, Life Goes On
• Out with Treos, in with iPhones
• Letters from Microsoft: An Employee Tosses His Zune
• Apple's 99-Cent Apps Are Too Cheap, Microsoft Says
• ONE IN FOUR SONGS IN U.S. BOUGHT ON iTUNES
• "APPLE HAS CHANGED THE WAY THE GAME IS PLAYED", says MSFT Win Mob chief
• iPhones Cause People To Talk Less
• GROKLAW’S EXCELLENT TAKE ON THE RECENT PSYSTAR SHENANIGANS (Apple Computer)
• PSYSTAR HIT WITH $5K FINE FOR DISCOVERY ABUSE (Apple Computer)
• INTEGO SPOTS MALWARE BLOCKER IN SNOW LEOPARD (Apple Mac OS X)
• Parallels to make switching to the Mac easier, safe and painless
• THE IPHONE & STEVE BALLMER: IT’S TIME FOR HIM TO EAT SOME SERIOUS CROW
• An in-depth look at Psystar’s legal defeat at the hands of Apple
• Has Palm finally given up on the great cat/mouse/iTunes chase of ‘09?
• Jobs’ Personal, Terse Reply to Developer [Apple Computer]
• Android goes for iPhone weak spot: porn apps [Porn is iPhone Killer?]
• Mac sales projected to grow 26% in 2010, outpacing PC market
• Apple's iPhone On Its Way To Becoming The Microsoft Windows Of Mobile
• Is Apple the Mobile Walmart?
• Apple's Base Stations Have Three 802.11n Streams [Faster WiFi on Apple]
• Analysis: Apple Embraces The Cloud, Positions Mobile With Lala Deal [Extends iTunes]
• Forget The iPhone: The iPod touch Is Where It’s At
• >All Hail the iPod touch
• Apple Bans Another Developer, 1000+ Apps Pulled [Developer scamming reviews]
• Lala purchase may hint at the coming of the rumored iTunes Replay service
• Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone. Wow. [iPhone Talk-to-text]

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[4rcane]

can’t wait for a universal translator. So you can take it around the world and talk to anyone

[Wee-Weed Up]

Talk to text? WTF?
Why not just press the call button and talk to an actual person on the other end?

[absolootezer0]

what? are you serious? no one would ever use a phone to TALK on!

i’m guilty of too much text. by the middle of the month they’ll quit telling me how many messages i sent/ received and just tells me how much i text in MB.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Why not just press the call button and talk to an actual person on the other end?

Ummmm..., gotta think like a person who has an iPhone. That person knows that they've got a mini-computer in their hands, and it's not just "phone stuff" that they're doing.

I may be wanting to document something to put down later. Instead of transcribing it from my "voice message" (which I could do, too...), I'll "transcribe it" ready to put into notes for future reference.

Another thing, too..., if I want to add a address book card, but I don't have the time right now, I can speak into this, making the text-note that I want, so that when I've got time to update my address book, I can just copy and paste straight to the address book... :-)

There are plenty of uses for this one. I'm sure it's going to be quite successful.

[Star Traveler]

More Apple articles posted on Free Republic...
these by Swordmaker

• Apple Crushes Clone Maker [Psystar] in Court
• Apple Wins Like a Champ - Psystar is Toast -- What? You're Surprised?
• AT&T, Apple Accused in suit of misleading consumers
• Tests: Windows PC "crapware" adds 2 minutes boot time Apps on Win 7 PCs still slow vs Apple
• iPhone owners demand to see Apple source code
• Apple Set to Propose Damages in Psystar Case
• Another iPhone worm, but this one is serious
• Apple Moves for Permanent Injunction in Psystar Case
• Nearly half the money spent at US retail on desktop PCs goes to Apple
• Failure to launch: Would-be ‘Mac cloner’ Psystar sold just 768 PCs with Apple’s Mac OS X installed
• The Apple Tax Revisited
• Apple moves to kill second Psystar lawsuit
• Psystar, Apple enter partial settlement to cease clone Mac sales
• Psystar agrees to pay Apple $2.7M in settlement
• The great iPhone death watch
• Apple releases Java for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.5 updates
• Apple Told To Pay Patent Troll OPTi $21.7 Million (AAPL)
• Verizon Droid ad calls Apple iPhone "tiara-wearing digitally clueless pageant queen"
• Attention Apple legal: Kuhgar tries selling Dell Mini 10v preloaded with Mac OS X Snow Leopard
• The Causality Behind Apple's Success
• Windows 7 Family Pack Dissapears For the Holidays
• Apple sued for infringing digital camera patent with iPhone
• Apple and Google and Microsoft sued over icon issue
• Danish Police Department depending on Macs to manage the Environmental Conference
• VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin: From killer app to iPhone app

[Wee-Weed Up]

I’m sure it will be successful. Guess I’ll just get walked into more than usual at the mall because people can’t take their heads out of their phones long enough to see where they are walking.

[wendy1946]

Dragon software ran quite well on the 250 mh PCs of 1977 or thereabouts and an Iphone simply has to have at least that much compute power and storage. There is no reason for Dragon software to be a web application; it ought to run on the Iphone without anybody but the user being involved.

[dangerdoc]

The univeral translator is one of the apps that google has coming down the line.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

The one caveat is that if it like existing Dragon products it is quicker to type than it is to speak after you do the corrections.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

The one caveat is that if it like existing Dragon products it is quicker to type than it is to speak after you do the corrections.

I just downloaded it and tried it out. It works great and didn't make one mistake.

The first sentence that I did was a typical one that you type... LOL... "Now is the time for..." you know the rest...

And then the second sentence I did was a narrative that I just made up on the spot and kept speaking into it. It didn't do punctuation, but I didn't expect it to. It did all the words just right. I was speaking in a deliberate and slow manner though and trying to pronounce my words clearly. I suppose that makes a difference too.

BUT, this is absolutely great! Y'all try it out... :-)

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

There is no reason for Dragon software to be a web application; it ought to run on the Iphone without anybody but the user being involved.

Well, at the beginning of the iPhone (a couple of years back) they did have the "web apps" to start with. But, that's not what the "apps" are about right now.

Now..., while an app may access some other site, it's not technically a "web app", which is different from these current apps on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

I just wanted to make that distinction that this is not a web app (as Apple was using before).

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

The one caveat is that if it like existing Dragon products it is quicker to type than it is to speak after you do the corrections.

I have tried several more times and this last time I did a name, address, city and zip code. It did it all in sequence but not one word was wrong, not the address, not the name, no the zip code or anything.

This is quite good!

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

I’m sure it will be successful.

Well, I can tell you right now, this one is going to be great! It works wonderfully, and is very accurate.

[CJ Wolf]

Just got this, awesome!!!!!

[VastRWCon]

Hi Star, you seemed to be really well informed about he Iphone as I see your posts on FR in almost all Iphone topics. I just purchased 2 3GS’s as Christmas presents, one for me and one for my daughter.

My question is about Tethering (using the iphone) to connect my laptop to the internet when traveling..

I have heard so many things yes/no/cant/wont work/broke phone, etc... any advice? Maybe you can point me to a website that has good solid instructions?

Thanks!