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Can't get the hang of two-thumbed typing? Perplexed by predictive text? Cursed with sausage fingers? Or just plain lazy?
Never fear. Your days of tapping messages into your mobile using tiny keys could be over after a new phone 'app' was released that turns speech into text.
Users can dictate messages into the phone which displays what they have said on the screen at the tap of a button. It can then be sent as a text or email.The phone will also respond to demands for punctuation with commands such as ‘exclamation mark’ or ‘new paragraph’
Dragon Dictation is free to download onto iPhones and has become one of the most popular applications in the U.S.. It is due to be released in the UK this week.
If it is as unreliable as the voice-recognition software that banks, cinema chains and other companies are already fond of, there could be some hilarious - or unfortunate consequences.
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