Updates to the Dragon Apps!

I snagged these when they came out, even though they were iPhone only at the time, because, you know - they were FREE :D

Last night Nuance had updates for both Dragon Search and Dragon Dictatation drop in the App Store that has enabled their working on the Touch. 2nd generation or later, and obviously requires a mic. Which would be why I can't try them out for you. If you don't have the Apple Headphones with Mic, there are a couple of ones you can buy. I'll hunt those links down in a bit and edit this with them.

PLEASE be sure to actually READ the Terms they ask you to agree to. They will be uploading the names of your contacts to their servers to help with the translation. There is/was a lot of controversy on this - you can decide for yourself how you feel about it. In their support area they have a support item covering the Privacy policy. The uploading is now optional, which is how it should have been in the first place.

From the link above (there is more than I cut/pasted by the way)

Optional Contact Name Upload

1) If you are a new user, downloading the application for the first time:

When you install the application, you will be presented with a screen asking you if it is OK to add your names to the vocabulary, after accepting the EULA.

If you click ’YES’

• Dragon will read only the names from your contact list, not email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, or other personal information
• Dragon will upload these names to the server, where they will be associated with the unique, anonymous 40-character device ID (UDID) from your iPhone
• Whenever you dictate, Dragon will use these names to improve accuracy and spelling when you refer to friends, colleagues, etc. in your dictations
• When you use Dragon, it will periodically synchronize names in your contact list to the server unless you change the Settings (see below)

If you click ’NO’

• Dragon will not read your address book and will not upload any names to the server
• When you dictate, Dragon may have a harder time understanding phrases or sentences that contain names and spelling of names
• Dragon will not upload names in the future unless you change the settings

I should be able to test these out next week - i've been waiting!!! Let me know how they work for you :D (and if anyone knows why the heck this formats wonky and I can't get my correct margins back - tell me!)

Dragon Dictation, free,

Dragon Search, free,