“One-Button” Access Voice Control
The Genius Button is built on Nuance’s intuitive speech-to-text platform. The power of the hybrid Nuance Voice Control platform is the first of its kind featured for T-Mobile’s Android device.
The myTouch3G Slide has one-shot voice command access to more than 50 mobile applications – making calls, sending emails and text messages, searching the Web, and more. Additional integrated device innovations include Dragon Dictation, which delivers users fast, easy and highly accurate speech-to-text dictation in any text field.
Dragon Dictation on the myTouch3G Slide allows a user to easily and quickly enter text up to five times faster in any text field, regardless of whether it’s an email, text message, calendar, Twitter application or Web browser. Dragon Dictation leverages the core speech technology found in the renowned PC-based Dragon NaturallySpeaking dictation software.
Examples of voice commands:
“Send email John Smith, subject let’s meet, body what are you doing tonight?”
“Get driving directions 1 Wayside Road Burlington Massachusetts”
“Search for Boston Red Sox”
“Find Dunkin’ Donuts near me”
“How many minutes do I have left?”
Here is what our users shared about their experience on Dragon Dictation:
Press Reviews
“I must admit I was pretty dubious about whether a mobile handset had the processing power to deliver accurate results in voice command modes. But I was presently surprised. The feature, which is powered by Dragon Dictation from Nuance Communications, the voice technology market leader, seems to work pretty well and, like PC-based voice recognition packages, improves its accuracy with usage.” – Paul Taylor Financial Times
“Finally, there's the Genius Button, and this is probably our favorite feature of the bunch. By pressing the dedicated Genius Button on the phone and thanks to Nuance Communication's Dragon Dictation software, you can use voice commands to make calls, compose and send messages, and search the Web and maps.” –CNET
“One other plus worth noting: the Genius Button and corresponding voice recognition (powered by Dragon Dictation) was some of the best we've played with, nailing complex text message dictation (including the word Engadget) on the first try. Honestly, it put Google's stock voice recognition to shame.” – Chris Ziegler Engadget
“The two biggest features of the T-Mobile designed software are the Faves gallery…..and the Genius button. Yes, the Genius button. (T-Mobile apparently does have the trademark on it.) Its voice command and speech-to-text, that’s more extensive than what Google offers by default, and it’s powered by Nuance, the guys behind Dragon Dictation. It seemed to work pretty damn well in the quick demo I had.” – Matt Buchanan Gizmodo
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