Dragon Dictation Update Integrates Facebook, Twitter

Email and texting is so yesterday; we’re all down with Twitter and Facebook and whatnot these days, so it only makes sense that the new 2.0 update for Nuance‘s speech-recognition app for the iPhone, Dragon Dictation, now adds the ability to send messages as status updates and tweets instead of just as emails or texts.

Another, smaller improvement, is the ability to instantly paste the transcript into the body of a text message.

Finally, in addition to standard Yankee English, the app now also supports “Engish (United Kingdom),” which presumably means it’ll insert the letter “u” randomly into words throughout the message. More languages arriving soon, including German in a few weeks and Italian, French and Spanish by the year’s end.

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Phil Dean
We who add the letter u to words speak Engish !?
Alan
finally i can get words spelled correctly!
Gav
Amazing app, would have paid for this.
Fen Tiger
Oi! learn to talk proper like what I do, innit.
Allan
Too bad you have to give up all of your contact information, etc., to FB to use it. They have too much of my information as it is.
jennifer
wish they’d get it on Android. :(
David Mercer
Allan, Don’t worry about it!! If you read they only take the names! they don’t take any contact numbers or email addresses so they can’t market anything out of it! it just helps them to improve the app by collating the different way names are pronounced and spelt in different languages!