Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced Dragon Go!, a
revolutionary and free application for iPhone and iPod touch that gives
consumers immediate, direct access to the mobile content they want.
Dragon Go! marks a generational leap in the mobile content experience to
pick up where search leaves off. Not only does Dragon Go! hear what
people are searching for, but it understands what they want, giving them
direct access to relevant results from 180 of the most trusted and
reliable content providers, including AccuWeather, Bing, ESPN, Facebook,
Fandango, iTunes, Last.fm, LiveNation, Milo.com, OpenTable, Pandora ®
internet radio, Rotten Tomatoes, Twitter, Wikipedia, Yelp, YouTube,
Yahoo! and many others – with the list of content providers growing each
day.
With Dragon Go!, people simply speak a query, and the app automatically
determines and then delivers the best content destinations via the newly
optimized Dragon CarouselTM. Gone are the days of endless
scrolling. Dragon Go! always puts the most relevant pages front and
center, and additional content from related providers is easily
accessible on the Carousel with just a simple flick of the finger.
Dynamic results are provided center and to the right, with additional
results from Google, Bing or Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Twitter and YouTube
available to the left.
Dragon Go! combines Nuance’s Dragon voice recognition technology with
natural language understanding, unique analytical tools, and elements of
artificial intelligence. The result is an app that understands the
intent of a query, and what a person wants to do – be it getting
restaurant reviews, buying movie tickets, shopping, finding directions,
listening to their favorite music, and more. For example:
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Say “The best Mexican food near me,” and instantly be taken to the
Yelp tab for local reviews, or flip over to the Phone tab to quickly
call to find out about any specials on the menu that evening.
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Say “Reservations for two at Capital Grille in Boston,” to be taken
directly to OpenTable to book a table for dinner, or scroll over to
the Maps tab to find out how to get there from where you are now.
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Say “Cowboys & Aliens near me” to instantly buy tickets, read fan
reviews and see trailers on Fandango, and then scroll over to Twitter
to see what other people are saying about the movie.
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Say “Nikon cameras” and you can move to the Milo.com tab to see the
best local prices from nearby brick-and-mortar stores, or opt to see
the product in action through video demos on YouTube.
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Say “Concert dates for Kings of Leon,” and be taken to the LiveNation
tab to lock in tickets, flip to the media tab to listen to Kings of
Leon on Pandora Radio or Last.fm, or download the album “Come Around
Sundown.”
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Say “Baseball fantasy stats” and instantly see the latest player stats
on ESPN.com.
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Say “Weather in Albuquerque, New Mexico” and get up-to-the-minute
weather updates from AccuWeather.
Dragon Go! also features deep integration with a number of the
applications on the device people use the most. For instance:
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Say “Call Whole Foods Market near me” and instantly see a list of
stores near you including phone numbers to tap and call.
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Say “Play Lady Gaga” and automatically hear songs by Lady Gaga on your
device, or say “Lady Gaga on Pandora” to instantly access your
personalized Lady Gaga station.
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Say “Driving Directions to the Capital Grille” and get turn-by-turn
directions to the nearest Capital Grille location from the Maps
application.
“Dragon Go! showcases Nuance’s advancements in Natural Language
Understanding, taking an open-ended spoken query and not only making the
input easier and faster, but also enhancing the way people consume
mobile web content and apps,” said Vlad Sejnoha, chief technical
officer, Nuance. “By understanding the intended actions of the mobile
consumer, we can eliminate multiple intervening steps, and take people
directly to where they want to end up – be it Pandora, Yelp, Fandango,
LiveNation, and many, many other apps and sites.”
Additionally, Dragon Go! lets people quickly and easily share
information with their social networks through a pop-up toolbar to share
links by email, text message, Facebook or Twitter. And when speaking to
Dragon Go! is not an option, people can easily pull up the keypad and
type in text as needed.
“Dragon Go! delivers today’s mobile consumers a level of instant
gratification that has never been available with legacy search
providers,” said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general
manager, Nuance Mobile. “We intelligently transport users directly to
their destination – no scrolling, links, or tapping, just direct access
to the content providers people love and trust. And this is just the
beginning – our range of partners is growing every day, with even more
extensive app integration planned over the next year.”
Dragon Go! is available on the Apple App Store in the U.S. in U.S.
English at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragon-go/id442975871?mt=8&ls=1.
Dragon Go! is the latest addition to the Dragon Mobile Apps family,
which includes the renowned Dragon Dictation and original Dragon Search
apps for iOS, available today in US, U.K. and Australian English,
German, European and Canadian French, Italian, Americas and European
Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin Taiwan, Cantonese
and Korean. The Apps can be downloaded in the US, Canadian, Mexican, UK,
German, Swiss, Austrian, French, Italian, Australian, Spanish, The
Netherlands, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Korean App
Stores.
To learn more about all of the Dragon Mobile Apps, including Dragon for
E-Mail and FlexT9, visit www.NuanceMobileLife.com.
Also be sure to follow us on Twitter @DragonTweets
and @NuanceMobile,
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About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance 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 information and how they
create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and
thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications and
professional services. For more information, please visit: nuance.com.
Nuance, Dragon Go!, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Dragon, Dragon Search
Carousel, and the Nuance logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of
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