BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that its Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search apps for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad have made their debut in Hungary supporting the Hungarian language. Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search have experienced rapid global adoption and expansion, landing the #1 and #2 top spots in the App Store in over 20 countries, with downloads in the tens of millions. With Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search, people all over the world can quickly and easily speak text for SMS messages, emails, social media updates, mobile Web searches and more – up to five times faster than typing.
Hungary is the 26th country where Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search have been made available by Nuance in the last year across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Dragon Apps continue to secure the #1 and #2 spots in the App store in nearly every country launched. And because the Apps feature multilingual capabilities people worldwide can easily switch between supported languages as they come available.
Dragon Dictation is iOS-4 compatible and features a pop-up toolbar with app icons that enables 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 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, also now available on the App Store, allows users to simply speak any search query to quickly and easily find information and answers on the mobile Web. Dragon Search is the only app to feature Nuance’s unique and innovative Dragon Search Carousel, which delivers faster, smarter search results within seconds across multiple channels all at once. Dragon Search includes results from Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, iTunes, Wikipedia and YouTube.
“Hungary is the 16th European country where we’ve delivered the Dragon Apps, driven by consumer demand for the power of mobile speech on the iPhone,” said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “And 2012 will be a big year for even more European expansion, with the Apps hitting more territories in more languages.”
Both Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search are available for free from the Hungarian Apple App Store.
Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search are also available in the Apple App Store in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Portugal, Poland, Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, and Australia. The Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search support U.S., UK and Australian English, German, European and Canadian French, Italian, Americas and European Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwan Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Danish, Hungarian, Polish, and Brazilian and European Portuguese.
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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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