BURLINGTON, Mass. & ISTANBUL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that its Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search applications for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad are available for free in the Turkey App Store, supporting the Turkish language. The launch in Turkey marks the 34th country where the Dragon Apps have been made available, allowing iOS consumers to quickly and easily dictate SMS text messages, emails, social media updates, mobile Web searches and more, up to five times faster than typing.
“Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search have already been incredibly successful in the Turkey Apple App Store, hitting the number one spots in Top Free Business and Top Free Utilities categories respectively,” said Michael Thompson, executive vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “The widespread adoption of the Dragon Apps points directly to consumer demand for voice-enabled mobile interfaces all over the world.”
Dragon Dictation is iOS-5 compatible and features a pop-up toolbar with app icons that enable users to easily access email, SMS, 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 allows users to simply speak any search query to quickly and easily find information and knowledge on the mobile Web. Dragon Search features Nuance’s unique and innovative Dragon Search Carousel, which delivers faster, smarter search results within seconds across multiple channels all at once including Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, iTunes, Wikipedia and YouTube.
Both Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search are available for free from the Apple App Store in Turkey.
Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search are also available in the US, Canada, Mexico, UAE, UK, Germany, Japan, China, Czech Republic, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia, Brazil, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland App Stores. In addition to Turkish, the Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search support U.S., UK and Australian English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwan Mandarin, Cantonese, Czech, Korean, Bahasa Indonesia, Hungarian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, European and Canadian French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, European and Americas Spanish, Swedish, and Standard Arabic. And with multilingual capabilities, all Dragon app users are able to easily switch between supported languages as they come available.
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Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of voice and language 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 devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
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