Dragon Dictations: Changes the Text World

People have reason to be excited and happy. Excited and happy for the fact that one can actually use an application on iPhone to post their musings directly as they speak their mind. The first version of free Dragon Dictation app excited people with its ability to quickly and accurately convert short speeches in to text on the iPhone, the idea of this dictation application was to help the user to message or e-mail briefly without having them tapped out.

Though, of great convenience and help, the application didn’t gain much popularity for it stirred up privacy concerns which ultimately resulted in the way of how it actually worked. The first version of the app also lacked a key feature: the ability to send messages from within the application. Instead, there were a number of steps involved from speaking out till it actually got posted. Dragon Dictation 2.0 adds some much-needed streamlining. At the tap of the "record" button, one can speak and hit the ‘share’ button followed by "text" to call up a text-messaging pane and the dictated word is ready to send. The latest and updated application enables one to log onto Facebook and Twitter accounts, and get their message flashed on the social networking sites at with the least button tapping possible.

Dragon Dictation works brilliantly for short messages which the application grasps easily and transcribes it into a sensible text. Though the application couldn’t operate smoothly with longer sentences and punctuations which actually doesn’t stand much of a problem for quick and short texts in case of urgency and emergency. On the other hand wrong words in the text can be edited or replaced with the list of alternatives of the words that the application provides with a tap on the word. One can also tap anywhere in the passage and hit the record button to start dictating from a given point, or tap the beginning of your dictated text and swipe to erase everything and start over.

Dragon Dictation relays words over the iPhone’s data connection to Nuance’s servers, then zaps the transcribed text back. Nuance swears that its data centers "adhere to stringent security and privacy standards" and that your words are processed only by machines, not people.

In any case, the updated version of Dragon Dictation has made life easier and texting convenient with just talk and text or tweet, or update Facebook. Dragon Dictation appears to be the new word in the world of text and quick messages and that too without the user having to spend a penny in the whole deal.