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Tips & Tricks: Need a Guide? Using Location Sharing with Dragon Mobile Assistant

Posted April 18, 2013 at 9:35 am, by

Sometimes planning to meet up with friends can be difficult. Texting ‘where are you?’ and follow up phone calls becomes tiresome, especially if you’re somewhere that isn’t easy to find (such as a restaurant that’s off the beaten path). Let Dragon Mobile Assistant be your guide. With its location sharing feature, you’ll always find your friends – and can even share your location with them too! Just ask Dragon Mobile Assistant, “Where is Alyssa?” Dragon will find Alyssa in your contacts and send her a text requesting permission for her location. Once your friend has shared her location, Dragon will send you a map with a pin designating exactly where she is! You can also share your own location by… read more

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Tips & Tricks: Never Miss an Important Call Again with Dragon Mobile Assistant’s New Calendar Call Assistant

Posted April 11, 2013 at 9:02 am, by

Have you ever been on the go and forgotten to make an important call? Nothing is worse than dialing in late to a crucial business meeting or other phone appointment. With Dragon’s new Calendar Call Assistant you’ll never miss an important call again – and best of all, you don’t have to watch the clock; Calendar Call Assistant will do the work for you. For example, just say “Schedule a call with 617-400-8000 in my calendar.” Dragon will then prompt you for the date and time. Once the calendar date is set, Dragon Mobile Assistant is ready to make your scheduled call at the date and time you set! Dragon even alerts you of the upcoming call and dials in… read more

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Spring Cleaning – Dragon Style

Posted April 10, 2013 at 9:54 am, by

With spring in full swing, it’s time for that honored tradition – spring cleaning. If you’re like me, your house needs a thorough buffering from the winter months, your closet needs a serious re-org, and your calendar needs to be updated with all the upcoming summer events (it’s wedding season too, after all). With this type of overhaul, organization can be quite the task – and I’m in serious need of an assistant. With Dragon Mobile Assistant it’s easy to keep on track. Here are just a few ways Dragon can help you organize all your spring cleaning needs: With Dragon Mobile Assistant, updates to your calendar can be made on-the-go – so you’ll never forget an important task or… read more

Nuance Voice Ads — The Next Thing You’ll Be Talking About

Posted March 29, 2013 at 4:14 pm, by

The Super Bowl wasn’t that long ago — most of us can still remember the game, the blackout and the ads. And not necessarily in that order, either. The event is always the biggest for advertising and advertisers. On the biggest stage, it’s all about telling the biggest stories. But if you look at all of the other advertising — particularly digital and mobile — anywhere else, it’s boring. It’s the classic approach to marketing at you, rather than providing any value or making a moment you’ll remember. That’s why when Mike McSherry and the team first came to us with Voice Ads I was incredibly excited — it’s the first time I could see that mobile advertising could really create… read more

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Tips & Tricks: Checking Spring Weather with Dragon Mobile Assistant

Posted March 28, 2013 at 9:32 am, by

Gearing up for Spring means being ready for unpredictable weather, and if you’re like me, you’re probably up and out the door without a thought to rain or shine. This usually leads to ruined hair styles and soggy shoes. But you need never get caught without a raincoat or the appropriate boots again. Checking the weather is fast and easy with Dragon Mobile Assistant. Simply ask Dragon Mobile Assistant “What’s the weather like?” and it will deliver your results within the Dragon Carousel – enabling you to slide the carousel from side-to-side to compare forecasts from the most prominent weather sites. Dragon’s voice-enabled assistant is always at the ready to deliver what you want – and fast! – with just… read more

Swype Update – New & Improved Features!

Posted March 19, 2013 at 9:00 am, by

With the latest release of the Swype Beta (1.4.9) we bring in some exciting additions and some less exciting, but very helpful fixes. We’ve improved tap responsiveness, added support for Hindi and Belgian Dutch and revamped our Smart Editor feature. To start things off, tap responsiveness has been overhauled for all languages. All you tappers out there will notice a snappier typing experience in our latest release. The time between pressing a key on the keyboard and seeing that letter on your screen is now lower. One of the most noticeable additions this release is support for Hindi and Belgian Dutch. Our Beta community has been asking for Hindi for quite a while, and we’re very happy to finally provide… read more

World of Personal Mobile Assistants Expands with New Samsung Galaxy S4

Posted March 14, 2013 at 9:33 pm, by

Congratulations Samsung. The Samsung Galaxy S series welcomed a new addition this evening with the unveiling of the Galaxy S4 in New York. We at Nuance are proud to have our technologies play such an integral role in an epic moment in Samsung history.  S-Voice, S-Translator and S-Voice Drive leverage a broad range of Nuance’s capabilities including cloud based voice recognition, conversational dialog, natural language understanding, and text to speech. With its sleek design and compelling features like S-Voice, S-Translator and S-Voice Drive, the Galaxy S4 will undoubtedly become one of the hottest Android devices in the market globally across North America, Europe and Asia. At Nuance, we’re excited to see new S-Voice features, application domains, and languages, plus even… read more

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Spotlight on Vela App

Posted March 14, 2013 at 9:53 am, by

Here at Nuance, we are delighted to share some exciting news that Vela, a nifty new music navigation app powered by Nuance’s voice technologies, has been nominated in the 2013 SXSW Music Accelerator Awards! Past years winners include industry changers like the original Siri app and Foursquare and in a pool of more than five hundred applicants, Vela came through as a finalist along with other web-based products like AudioCommon, BioBeats, CrowdSync and Molecule Synth just to name a few. Developed as part of Nuance’s NDEV Mobile developer program, Vela allows users to link voice control to their favorite music accounts like Spotify and Rdio through the power of Dragon.  The app is built upon making the user experience as… read more