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Nuance's Dragon Anywhere hopes to take mobile dictation to the next level

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Posted by Joseph Keller on 18 Aug 2015 1:33 pm
Nuance has announced a new, cloud-powered mobile version of its popular Dragon voice dicatation app. Called Dragon Anywhere, the app offers continuous dictation, syncing with various cloud services, and sync between your phone, tablet, and desktop.

Live from SDC14: Nuance is giving developers powerful voice tools

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 13 Nov 2014 2:53 pm
Nuance interview at SDC 2014
We all know Nuance for its self-branded services with voice and the Swype keyboard, but it's also opening up its systems for developers of all kinds to use. And with a partnership with Samsung, even more people have access to the great tools Nuance provides to make their apps and services even better. We caught up with Yumi Huh, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Nuance, at the Samsung...

Nuance said to be exploring possible sale to Samsung

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Posted by Chuong H Nguyen on 16 Jun 2014 2:36 pm
Nuance Communications stock prices are rising as speculations of a potential sale of the company to Samsung Electronics are heating up. Nuance provides speech and voice recognition software for many products in the market, including cars and GPS, Samsung's own line of Galaxy phones and tablets, as well as Apple's voice assistant Siri.

Nuance Voiceprint brings new levels of personalization to Dragon Mobile Assistant

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Posted by Simon Sage on 1 Apr 2014 8:56 am
Dragon Mobile Assistant has been updated with new biometric features that lets you access hands-free features without having to unlock your device. The app by Nuance can now recognize users based on their "VoicePrint", and continues to offer a bunch of voice-activated controls for messaging, calling, and maps. The workflow is a bit speedier than you might be used to, as you can spout out the...

Vuzix adds Nuance voice technology to its M100 smart glasses

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Posted by Anndrew Vacca on 8 Jan 2014 1:49 pm
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Promises a "powerful and intuitive way to engage the M100 smart glasses." Vuzix announced today that its M100 smart glases, demoed yesterday on our #CESlive stage, will now include Nuance voice technology. As Simon and John P. saw firsthand, the M100 is being updated everyday with consumer-oriented functionalities that are slowly bridging the gap with Google Glass and other consumer-oriented...

Dragon Mobile Assistant hits version 4.0 with new features, stability improvements

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 18 Jun 2013 12:52 am
Dragon Mobile Assistant
Nuance's assistant app, Dragon Mobile Assistant, has just received a notable update to version 4.0 today bringing in a new set of features and enhancements. With this latest update, Dragon Assistant will now automatically switch to Driving Mode when it detects that you are moving quickly enough to be driving, creating a seamless experience. Additionally, users can now have email dictation, so...

Swype finally makes its debut in the Google Play Store

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 24 Apr 2013 7:50 am
Swype
99 cents gets you one of the best-known third party keyboards on Android Hell may have just frozen over today, because Swype is now available for purchase in the Play Store. Previously, as many of you are aware, the only way to have Swype on your device was to sign up for the beta test and install it manually, or have one of the many devices with it pre-installed. A $0.99 purchase now gets you...

Nuance Dragon Mobile Assistant adds location sharing and hands-free texting

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Posted by Simon Sage on 12 Mar 2013 10:30 am
Nuance Dragon Mobile Assistant
Nuance has announced a handful of new features to their Dragon Mobile Assistant app, which launched just last fall. In addition to the usual stuff, like updating Facebook and Twitter, finding businesses, booking calendar appointments, and getting directions, Dragon Mobile Assistant can now share GPS coordinates with trusted contacts.

Nuance and ZTE make multi-year deal to bring voice services to devices

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 7 Jan 2013 2:29 pm
ZTE Logo
Voice app provider Nuance has signed a multi-year deal with handset manufacturer ZTE to integrate its services into upcoming devices in 2013. Announced at CES 2013, the well-known voice service provider will partner with ZTE to bring better voice control to its "Car Mode" app. The app can be operated completely with voice, not even requiring any viewing of the screen. You can wake up Car Mode...

Nuance launches Siri-esque Dragon Mobile Assistant

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Posted by Simon Sage on 24 Oct 2012 10:30 am
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Today Nuance kicked off the beta for a new app called Dragon Mobile Assistant. It lets users talk to their phones in a natural human voice for a variety of tasks, including booking calendar appointments, dictating messages, updating Facebook and Twitter, getting GPS directions, finding businesses, and checking the weather. It even has an S-voice style audio wake-up command so you don't have to...

Swype Beta 1.3 released, brings dictionary backup, 'hotwords' and more

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Posted by Victoria Ho on 18 Oct 2012 1:13 pm
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The latest beta of the Swype keyboard is out, and available to download from the Swype Beta website. The popular third-party keyboard from Nuance Communications packs a number of new updates. Dictionary backup & sync: Users’ personal dictionaries and word additions can be synced across mobile devices. Three new tablet keyboard layouts: The original, a small and moveable one, and a...

Major Swype beta update released with syncable dictionary, personalized prediction

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 20 Jun 2012 9:17 am
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Swype developer Nuance has announced -- and released -- a major update to the beta version of the popular Android keyboard. The new Swype beta, which is available to download now from the official site, adds in several new abilities designed to make word prediction more accurate. Among these is a feature more commonly associated with rival SwiftKey -- personalized prediction based on social...

Nuance's Dragon Go heads to the Android Market, ready to handle your demands

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Posted by Bla1ze on 10 Jan 2012 2:55 pm
Dragon Go!
Nuance’s Dragon voice recognition applications have been around for a while but they've been working on a new project for Android recently and with CES 2012 in full effect, they've gone ahead and taken the wraps off Dragon Go for Android. Dragon Go takes the best of Nuance’s Dragon voice technology to create a compelling offering that allows direct voice access to what is now over 200 content...

Nuance said to have purchased Swype for $100 million

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 6 Oct 2011 8:59 pm
Swype
What do you get when you combine the best in voice command with one of the best touchscreen keyboards? We might be about to find out, as Uncrunched reports that Nuance -- that's the company and technology behind the excelent "Dragon" line of programs -- as well as the iPhone 4S' "Siri" new voice system -- has purchased Swype, the excellent on-screen keyboard that lets you swipe from letter to...

Nuance Mobile Developer Program helps devs create-voice enabled apps

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Posted by Bla1ze on 19 Jan 2011 12:38 pm
Nuance maker of the awesome Dragon Dictation speech recognition suite of applications has opened the doors to their software for developers. Through their Nuance Mobile Developer Program they are now offering access to the Dragon SDK. This given access will allow developers to put the same core functions into their apps that are found within the Dragon Dictation speech and search software. This...

Shapewriter being pulled from Market; get it while you still can

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 19 Jun 2010 6:03 pm
We're a tad behind on this, but better late than never: If you're a fan of the Shapewriter keyboard, it's being pulled from the Android Market on June 20 -- that's tomorrow. Here's the notice from Shapewwriter: Please note: We plan to take ShapeWriter off the Android Market on June 20, 2010 for an indefinite period of time, If you have purchased or downloaded ShapeWriter Keyboard on your...