Nuance Communications, the company behind popular keyboard app Swype, unveiled new dictation apps for iOS and Android on Tuesday that the company says will be much more powerful than anything offered by Apple, Google or Microsoft.
Dragon Anywhere, which will be available later this year, at long last brings the company's desktop-level dictation capabilities to iOS and Android.
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Dragon Anywhere is a note-taking app that allows users to create and edit documents with only their voices. Of course, iOS, Android and even Windows Phones already have free speech-to-text capabilities baked into their mobile operating systems, but Dragon Anywhere goes further than those offered by default.
First, the app is able to transcribe notes continuously as you speak without any time limits. Siri, by comparison, often requires you to pause about every 30 seconds while the text catches up with your words. The app also offers far more voice editing tools so you can actually format and change documents with voice commands. Dragon Anywhere is also backed up on the cloud, so you can grab documents from your Dropbox or Box account and your customized settings will sync everywhere you use the Dragon apps, including on Windows and Mac.
The mobile apps will be available in the App Store and Google Play in the fall of 2015. Both require a subscription, though the company hasn't yet revealed prices for a subscription.