Powerful Dragon Apps Now Support Korean, Enabling Even More Consumers to Quickly and Easily Speak Text for Email, Text Messages, Web Searches and More
BURLINGTON, Mass.--May 19, 2011-Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that its Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search applications now support Korean, and are available for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch in the Korean Apple App Store. Built on the renowned Dragon NaturallySpeaking platform, Nuance’s powerful Dragon Apps let users simply speak their text for SMS text messages, emails, social media updates and mobile Internet searches, up to five times faster than typing.
Korean joins Japanese and Mandarin Chinese as the third supported language in Asia, and marks the thirteenth language supported by the Dragon Apps, which have been downloaded by millions around the world since first introduced to the U.S. Apple Store in December 2009. In fact, the award-winning Dragon Dictation app has ranked as a number one free application in nearly every region it has launched.
The latest version of Dragon Dictation is iOS-4 compatible and features a pop-up toolbar with app icons for easy access to email and text message apps, Facebook or Twitter status bars, or the clipboard. Dragon Dictation also includes a convenient Auto Save function that retains dictated text when the user is interrupted by an incoming phone call.
Dragon Search for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, also available on the Korean App Store, lets users speak any search query to quickly and easily find and access information and answers on the mobile Web. Nuance’s unique, innovative Dragon Search Carousel delivers fast, smarter search results within seconds across multiple channels all at once, including Naver, Google, Yahoo, Mnet, Wikipedia and YouTube.
“Following the successful launch of the Dragon Apps in Japan and China, we’re now going live in Korea, giving even more consumers around the world the ability to experience Dragon’s speed and ease of use,” said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “And as promised, we’re investing even more resources into supporting many more languages across Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, delivered through the end of 2011.”
Both Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search are available for free from the Apple App Store.
Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search support U.S, English, U.K. English, Australian English, German, European and Canadian French, Italian, Americas and European Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and now Korean. And with multilingual capabilities, all Dragon app users are able to easily switch between supported languages as they come available. The applications are available in the US, Canadian, UK, German, French, Italian, Australian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Swiss, and Austrian App Stores.
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About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit: nuance.com.
