Comments on: The Seven Words You Can’t Say In A Dragon iPhone App

By: HJ

HJ — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:50:19 +0000

Pretty sweet… Nice post :D

By: Review: Dragon Dictation — iPhone voice transcription by Dragon NaturallySpeaking « Popslim Blog

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:22:46 +0000

[...] In my tests, the accuracy of the transcription has been excellent. The app even adapts to your voice over time to improve accuracy, and thus Nuance recommends that you avoid letting other people use the Dragon Dictation app on your iPhone. If this matters to you, note that the app resists translating curse words — an issue of no consequence to me except that I love that it resulted in this amusing post by Andy Ihnatko. [...]

By: Review: Dragon Dictation — iPhone voice transcription by Dragon NaturallySpeaking – iPhone J.D. « Popslim Blog

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:19:04 +0000

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:32:02 +0000

what ashamed that instead of celebrating another triumph in the word of technology, this blogger stupidly wastes time discussing the app’s failure to convert cuss words!
how stupid is this? save the gutter stuff for the gutter. most reasonalby intelligent people have been able to communicate just fine without ever having to use the 7 dirty words.
what an idiot!

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:13:11 +0000

As of 12/16, this app allows you to opt out of having the address book uploaded, just FYI. They did the right thing.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:24:34 +0000

My biggest gripe is that I can’t actually find this app. It doesn’t seem to be available for UK users. The message I receive from my phone when I click on the link is: Your request could not be completed.

No word on why…

By: App Rejections » Blog Archive » ACCEPTED: Dragon Dictation – despite uploading your Address Book

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:46:38 +0000

[...] blog post from the developers, but some interesting experiments in profanity suggest that this app may have had a few rounds of rejecti… before Apple allowed it through. [...]

By: M. LaMorte

M. LaMorte — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:51:37 +0000

This kinda reminds me of the original handwriting recognition of the Newton. It was prehy pis p0or ahd wou d do an aw fl job of accunateIy recogniing wnat y ou wnote.

The Simpsons even parodies it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEMkjCAegLs

Now, the HWR improved with the MP2100, which I still own, use, and love, but by then Steve-O had returned to the helm and Sculley’s pet project was doomed.

By: Steve Tedder

Steve Tedder — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:42:26 +0000

Surely that’s speech-to-text and not text-to-speech!

And remember, obscenity is in the ear of the behearer.

By: Vincent Colombo

Vincent Colombo — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:05:21 +0000

Dragon is a speech-to-text application, not text-to-speech. :)