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'Dragon Dictation' Brings Voice Transcription to the iPhone
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This thread is filled with blind ignorance and stupidity. There is no polite way to look at it. It's stunning. I used the Jott service for a while. Guess what... it uploads my voice transcriptions to their server, and they send me back text. The Google Mobile app does the same thing, when it records the audio and sends it back to their servers from analysis. I was actually hoping for a while, that some service would provide streaming mp3 text-to-speech audio from a web server, after you post text to it (but then the 3Gs seems capable of synthesizing speech by itself (without the aid of hardcore servers offloading the task).
I wish the people who are mouthing off about privacy might reconsider posting their multiple-exclamation mark comments. There's raising valid points, and then there's wearing a tin-foil hat. I could describe the privacy policies of a number of apps in the app store that are 100 times more intrusive... BY DESIGN. No one is hiding anything, and no one told you to download it.
The only reason why I sound this harsh, is that I feel BAD for companies making a product available for FREE... only to incur such a dissappointing wave of ignorance. They didn't have to provide a EULA at the beginning, if they wanted to fool you. Bright, large "I Agree" button too. If you don't... hit the home button, and delete the app. Super-easy.
I can't help thinking they just threw it out, and used other translating technology. I'm left thinking Jott was a purchase more for other technology (like making it phone-based), talent/engineers, and business relationships.
~ CB
This is quite an amazing app for the iPhone. It's very easy to use. The accuracy is almost perfect.
Agreed, this would seem the simplest way to avoid conflicts of interest and with IP down the road.
Besides, why reinvent the wheel when you have a resource of this nature and experience available to recruit?
Whatever the circumstances happen to be, this app is remarkably useful. Speak silly words, such as "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," and there it appears, in less than a second.
This will soon be regarded as a killer app for sending out e-mail, memos, orders, etc.
Get is while its free.
Some of you are just retarded. /Facepalm
If this scares you becasue of its "privacy issues", then you should seriously think about what other companies like Google are doing with your info. Go delete all your google, gmail and wave accounts before you get paranoid about this lil' harmless app's EULA.
Now, the app works great and recognizes at least 95% of the time. Plus, the system to select text is quite nice (too bad apple didnt come out with it though(.
If this scares you becasue of its "privacy issues", then you should seriously think about what other companies like Google are doing with your info. Go delete all your google, gmail and wave accounts before you get paranoid about this lil' harmless app's EULA.
Now, the app works great and recognizes at least 95% of the time. Plus, the system to select text is quite nice (too bad apple didnt come out with it though(.
Agreed
It really is sad. So many on just this thread alone have stated I don't care if it catalogs my contacts, but they fail to ponder whether or not their contacts might care. Why don't you all text your friends and family first, and ask if they care if you give their names to a company because it "needs" them?
Speaking of names, what exactly makes this a requirement? I mean their are plenty of name dictionaries, available online, why do they need them from your phone? John Doe , might be troublesome from a last name standpoint, but really if they are uploading your entire voice file to their servers for transcription what does it matter? It is not like their are thousands of other potential words that this "service" might not recognize, why do they need your files to "fix" that.
I realize that in public we have no privacy, but this is a device that most people consider private, otherwise why don't all of you who don't care just go ahead and post ALL of YOUR personal info here online.
The proliferation of cameras is a good example, sure it seems innocuous, but
there is a reason that most minors and many adults have private accounts on social networking sites, because access to your name, likeness, and other personally identifiable info is not necessarily wise to disclose, to anyone and everyone. You can call it paranoid, and put us down for pointing it out, but if you ever do have your identity stolen, or your friends and family angry at you because they mysteriously start getting email, or phone calls from telemarketers, I suggest you look at history, and see how virtually every promise made of this nature is eventually broken, or their server is eventually hacked. I also suggest you not complain to anyone because you have been warned, and you laughed it off, because you totally trust a company offering you something for "nothing"
Nope. The 3G Touch comes with the mic and the app won't install. I can't even view the Dragon Dictation app in the App Store from the Touch. Something in restricting the Touch from using the app.
Got an answer back and seems like it is coming to the Touch in the near future, but still doesn't give a reason for why the Touch is excluded.
Hello Brian,
Thanks for your interest in the Dragon Dictation for iPod touch. Nuance
is actively looking into the serving this request & we will provide an
update on the availability of Dragon Dictation on iPod Touch very soon.
Regards,
Dragon Dictation Team
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7D11)
When is it coming to iTunes uk ??? Or is it not !!!!
MacRumors said:
Nuance Communications today announced the release of Dragon Dictation [App Store, Free for a limited time], a new voice transcription application for the iPhone. The application, which relies on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition engine to transcribe voice input to text, allows users to easily send transcribed text to new e-mail or text messages or save it to the clipboard for pasting into other applications.The application works by transmitting spoken input to Nuance's central servers, where it is processed by the transcription algorithms and returned to the user's device. Consequently, the application does requires a data connection in order to function.
The application offers editing options including alternative suggestions for misinterpreted phrases and built-in keyboard functionality for manual editing of text. The application also offers voice corrections, allowing users to highlight a selected portion of text and replace it with newly-spoken phrases.
Several users have noted a potential privacy issue with Dragon Dictation, however, with a number of iTunes Store user reviews noting that the license agreement for the application reveals that data from users' lists of contacts will be sent to Nuance and stored on its servers.
Dragon Dictation is free for a limited time, and Nuance will in the near future be releasing Dragon Search, a second iPhone application allowing users to conduct voice searches of a number of sources including search engines, YouTube, Twitter, iTunes, and Wikipedia.
Article Link: 'Dragon Dictation' Brings Voice Transcription to the iPhone
When is it coming to iTunes uk ??? Or is it not !!!!
People that have a problem with uploading *names* within their contact list to an external server are being downright silly.
Wait a minute. I remember hearing that Nuance shot JFK. Maybe they have a point.
Wait a minute. I remember hearing that Nuance shot JFK. Maybe they have a point.
The only e-mail of mine that is received by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc. is spam. They are my junk mail accounts. The rest of my personal/work e-mail goes to privately hosted servers. My e-mail is not directly searchable anywhere online. I do not send work-related e-mails to any accounts that are not privately hosted.
Many companies consider their contact lists to be their intellectual property.
I am legally bound to protect many of the recordings I would like to make and transcribe.
Being ignorant about personal privacy is BOTH mind boggling and stupid.
Don't care about your opinion.
Bunch of gibberish that provides zero legal protections. What "standards"?
Except this isn't the agreement in the software!
I suspect whoever from Nuance posted this didn't talk with their lawyer first. There is also a lack of information on what protection is provided to your speech data. Nuance does seem to be trying to respond to this as quickly as possible though.
Maybe i'ts agood idea to start a website listing all suspected apps that steal information. An early warning system for these sort of apps seems ever more nescesary since more personal info is stored on your phone. Or even better: Little Snitch for iPhone!
Voice Dialing would be a nice addition to this App
It would be a lot better in my opinion if you could select a name from your contact list by using your voice. This way you wouldnt have to click anything while you are driving. Did anyone read the article? They dont save any of your contact's numbers or e-mail addresses, they are just saving the names so that they can correct your texts.
It would be a lot better in my opinion if you could select a name from your contact list by using your voice. This way you wouldnt have to click anything while you are driving. Did anyone read the article? They dont save any of your contact's numbers or e-mail addresses, they are just saving the names so that they can correct your texts.
To bad your post is mostly wasted effort since you didn't bother to read that only contact NAMES are stored,no addresses,numbers.
Poor Neo
Poor NeoNobillis,it must really suck to live in a pathetic,insignificant,inferior country.Nuy a Nokia.
Poor NeoNobillis,it must really suck to live in a pathetic,insignificant,inferior country.Nuy a Nokia.
So don't download it :]
the EULA tells you what it uses (contact names) before you use the app. Since you obviously wouldn't agree to the terms there's really nothing more to it.
Maybe i'ts agood idea to start a website listing all suspected apps that steal information. An early warning system for these sort of apps seems ever more nescesary since more personal info is stored on your phone. Or even better: Little Snitch for iPhone!
Too bad this app isn't stealing info ;]
It tells you plain as day that it uses your contact names.
Do you have five locks on your door as well?
You're making a mountain out of a mole hill. Once again, they only store *names* within your contact list. If you're that protective of something as simple as names within your contact list, maybe you should be evaluating your life instead of this software.
Psssttt...you don't happen to have Jimmy Hoffa on your contact list do you? Eh...never mind.
BTW...since your contact list is only sent once to Nuance, how about doing this:
1. Turn off contact sync'ing in MobileMe
2. Delete all contacts on your iPhone.
3. Install the Nuance app. (and use it).
4. Re-sync your iPhone and turn MM sync'ing back on.
Problem solved!
Dude! You guys were the first to get hairy-legged chicks and beer and stuff like that! How about letting us be the first to get an insignificant app!
Do you have five locks on your door as well?
You're making a mountain out of a mole hill. Once again, they only store *names* within your contact list. If you're that protective of something as simple as names within your contact list, maybe you should be evaluating your life instead of this software.
Psssttt...you don't happen to have Jimmy Hoffa on your contact list do you? Eh...never mind.
BTW...since your contact list is only sent once to Nuance, how about doing this:
1. Turn off contact sync'ing in MobileMe
2. Delete all contacts on your iPhone.
3. Install the Nuance app. (and use it).
4. Re-sync your iPhone and turn MM sync'ing back on.
Problem solved!
You forgot one tiny little point. All voice dictation is uploaded and stored on Nuance's servers. Since it sounds like pmjoe is worried about attorney-client (or doctor-patient) priviledge, uploading a dictated client letter to the server for example would be a breach of this priviledge as the information has now left the attorney's control.
I had Dragon on my PC a few years back. Yech!
I won't be in any hurry to sign on for it again. Though I do get constant invites from Nuance.
I won't be in any hurry to sign on for it again. Though I do get constant invites from Nuance.