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Dragon Dictation App for iPad is Available Now

iPhoneHeat — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:03:25 +0000

Dragon Dictation is now available for iPad. Dragon Dictation is powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking and is an easy-to-use voice recognition app for iPad. You can easily compose Text messages, emails, documents by speaking it. In fact, it’s up to 5 times faster than typing on the keyboard.

With Dragon Dictation you can also update your Facebook status, send notes and reminders to yourself, or Tweet to the world….all using your voice. So when you’re on-the-go, stop typing and start speaking – from short text messages to longer email messages, and anything in between.

Dragon Dictation Features include:

Voice to text transcriptions that may be sent as SMS, Email, or pasted into any application on your iPhone using the clipboard
Convenient editing feature that provides a list of suggest words
Voice driven correction interface

A network connection (WiFi, 3G/Edge) is required in order to get Dragon Dictation to work. Dragon Dictation is available for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch 3rd and 2nd Gen. You can download Dragon Diction from the App Store for Free.

[iTunes Link]

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Vlingo Voice App: Send Email and SMS from iPhone by Speaking

iPhoneHeat — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:34:05 +0000

Vlingo corporation has released a major update to its iPhone app, Vlingo for iPhone, adding the ability to send Text messages and emails using voice commands with a redesigned UI.

Google Voice Search, Dragon Search, Dragon Dictation, Bing for the iPhone, ShoutOUT TXT and Siri, are similar voice-to-text application for iPhone but the major difference is that you can do more, within a single application, using Vlingo.

What’s New in Version 2.0.0

EMAIL: Send an email by speaking a contact, subject and message body. For example, “Email Chris, Subject Tonight, Message Running a bit late!”
SMS Paste: Send a text message by speaking a contact and message. Simply say, “Text Mike, Message How are you?
Redesign: We’ve done a full graphical redesign to make Vlingo even faster and easier to use.

Using Vlingo – Voice app simply speak to your iPhone to:

Send email & SMS messages (In App Purchase)
Search Google Maps (Free)
Update your Facebook & Twitter status (Free)
Search the web using Google, Bing or Yahoo! (Free)
Call anyone in your phonebook (Free)

So while using Vlingo – Voice app you don’t have to open up a new or different app to do a web search, send an e-mail or SMS or update Twitter or Facebook, you can do it all within one app.

Check out the Vlingo – Voice app for iPhone new feature in action:

[iTunes Link]

ShoutOUT TXT: SMS Dictation App for iPhone

iPhoneHeat — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:22:36 +0000

Promptu Systems has released ShoutOUT TXT, an iPhone application that lets you dictate messages to your iPhone and send them as a regular SMS text message. Using the application user can create an account and begin texting his contacts and to any textable phone number.

All the typed messages using the app are free and unlimited. However, First 25 voice-generated text messages are free but then costs $4.99 for 250 messages, or $1.99 for 50. After 25 messages, Voice-generated text messages can be purchased via in-app purchases.

AT&T charge $15 for 1500 text messages but in ShoutOUT TXT, 1500 voice generated messages costs $30 but manually types messages are free and unlimited because company uses its own server.

ShoutOUT TXT currently supports North American English and works on:

AT&T (States)
Bell Mobility, Rogers, and Virgin Mobile (Canada)

You can purchase ShoutOUT TXT from the AppStore for $0.99. [iTunes Link]