Nuance fires up Dragon Recorder for iDevices

David Swan
Wednesday, 02 November 2011 23:37

Your IT - Mobility

Nuance has announced the Dragon Recorder app, allowing iOS users to use their device as a voice recorder on the go.

The new app is for Dragon users with an iPhone, iPad or 4th gen iPod Touch, and is designed to work in conjunction with the PC/Mac Dragon software counterparts.

The idea is that users will use their iDevice as a voice recorder, and then transcribe their recordings to create notes, meeting minutes, emails, letters, papers, articles, blog posts and more.

According to Nuance, more than half of the company's current Dragon customers have requested a way to use their smartphones to be able to record on the go, and this delivers it.

"We've really focused on delivering more flexibility in Dragon, so that our customers can use Dragon the way that they work and live," said Peter Mahoney, senior vice president and general manager, Dragon, Nuance.

"Most recently with the introduction of our Dragon Remote Mic app, we added the ability to use the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch as a wireless mic with Dragon. Now, the Dragon Recorder app takes it a step further by allowing more of our customers to take advantage of remote on-the-go dictation with a device that they are already carrying so that they can capture their creative ideas and thoughts quickly and accurately, no matter where they are."

Nuance also announced users can play back, fast forward, rewind and append to their recordings as necessary and then use either iTunes or a Wi-Fi network, to transfer their audio files from the mobile device to their PC or Mac for transcription from Dragon NaturallySpeaking or MacSpeech Scribe.

The app is available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch from the App Store right now, for free.