Recent Posts by Michael
Voice on the Main Stage!
Posted March 7, 2012 at 8:28 pm, by Michael Thompson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Nuance Mobile
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been five months since Apple deeply integrated voice as a core part of the interface on the Apple iPhone 4S – and today Apple integrated dictation capabilities as part of the iPad 3 keypad. Consumers love voice as a natural and intuitive way to interact with devices – even those as powerful as the iPad and iPhone. Nuance has made deep investments over the last decade to bring voice and language understanding to the forefront of the mobile experience across a range of devices, apps, cars and consumer electronics. In fact, Nuance’s Dragon Dictation for iPad app launched in 2010 and remains very popular, now available in 25 languages in 28 countries around… read more
Dragon Dictation 2.0 Is Here!
Posted July 23, 2010 at 8:31 am, by Michael Thompson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Nuance Mobile
It’s hard to believe it has been more than six months since we launched Dragon Dictation for iPhone – and it has been so exciting to hear all of the tremendous feedback from so many enthusiastic Dragon Dictation users out there. Thanks to all of you for your support, comments and, of course, suggestions! And the thunder keeps on rolling, as today we unveil Dragon Dictation 2.0! With Dragon Dictation 2.0 you get all of the convenient features of Dragon Dictation plus new enhancements that will make using the app even more fun and convenient to use. This latest version is iOS4-compatible, delivers multi-language support and delivers a new easy-to-use interface that features a great pop-up toolbar for speaking text… read more
Nuance Powered Genius Button Smarts Up T-Mo Android Smartphone
Posted May 5, 2010 at 8:24 am, by Michael Thompson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Nuance Mobile
Today we are proud to announce an industry first with our partner T-Mobile – it’s called the Genius Button soon available on the new T-Mobile® myTouch 3G™ Slide, Android™-based smartphone. The Genius Button is the first fully integrated hybrid speech solution, with speech recognition on the device and in the cloud, seamlessly working together. Based on our intuitive Nuance speech platform, the Genius Button delivers users one-button voice access to control the phone and dictate one-shot commands to make calls, dictate emails and text messages, search the Web, find businesses and directions, open the calendar, etc. So, now it is faster and easier than ever to use your favorite apps! For example, Genius Button one-shot commands include things like: “Call… read more
Dragon Dictation for Email, Now Available for BlackBerry!
Posted April 21, 2010 at 8:20 am, by Michael Thompson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Nuance Mobile
Nuance’s Dragon Mobile apps have seen amazing success over the last several months, and we’ve received many requests to bring Dragon Dictation to other platforms, particularly BlackBerry, the most popular Email device in the world. Today I am excited to announce, Dragon for Email is now available on the BlackBerry App World store! With Dragon for Email, BlackBerry users can now easily and quickly dictate their emails right into their trusted and familiar email client. Like Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search, Dragon for Email uses the power of Dragon NaturallySpeaking to make speaking emails fast, accurate and easy. With Dragon for Email, users have increased flexibility in how they stay connected with colleagues, friends and family in the most natural… read more
It’s Here – Dragon Dictation for iPad!
Posted April 2, 2010 at 9:30 am, by Michael Thompson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Nuance Mobile
On today, an important day in computing history, we launched Dragon Dictation for iPad! Dragon Dictation brings increased flexibility and convenience to yet another remarkable device from Apple. You can dictate your messages on your iPad just like with the Dragon Dictation on the iPhone and iPod Touch using the power of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. But Dragon Dictation for iPad also lets people speak and save drafts of documents, emails, to-do lists and more in the new Dragon Dictation Notes™ feature. You can use Dragon Dictation in landscape or portrait mode. We also extended the dictation time so you can speak longer sentences and paragraphs when needed. Thanks to all the Dragon Dictation users who provided input and suggestions on how… read more
