Swype has also expanded dictation capabilities and now supports Dragon Dictation in a dozen new languages including Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Malay, Romanian, Slovak, Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, and Ukrainian.

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Dragon TV is a part of Nuance's portfolio of voice, touch and natural language understanding innovations that are defining a new generation of intelligent systems and personal assistant technologies, which also includes Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Dragon Dictate for Mac, Dragon Assistant for Intel-inspired Ultrabooks, Dragon Dictation, Dragon Go!

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Sure, there were exceptions to the rule like Dragon Naturally speaking for dictation and voice command and control, but that really only caught on in vertical markets like legal and medical where the dictionaries were precise and users used headphones to improve accuracy.

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Forbes Digital Tool recently tested two state-of-the-art voice dictation programs: IBM's ViaVoice Gold and Dragon NaturallySpeaking from privately held Dragon Systems.

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