TD Staff 
Nuance has updated the Swype application by adding a voice recognition feature to it. The software has made it easy for the users by helping them to easily use keyboards in their touchscreen phones. The company has introduced with the predictive text technology resulting into the completion of words by itself based on the user’s previous usage. Nuance has also introduced a Dragon speech recognition feature which allows users to dictate text instead of typing it.
The updated version of the Swype application by Nuance will be available from June 21 for Android phones manufacturers. The success of the Android Operating System depends on its freely distribution in the market allowing different companies to use the technology in their devices.
Swype was bought by Nuance last year in October from its creators. The application provides a unique feature of allowing users to swipe their fingers through the touchscreen keyboard instead of lifting it up to type that has lead to its popularity among consumers. Nuance claimed that many phone manufacturers have already ordered for around 200 million phones with pre-installed updated Swype application.
It has been reported that companies like Nokia and Research In Motion which do not manufacture Android supporting devices have promised their future mobile phones to run on Microsoft Windows and they may use a software developer kit from the Swype owner, Nuance in order to create their own versions.
On the manufacturing of updated Swype enabled mobile phones, director of mobile input for Nuance, Brian Yee commented, “Some can be as quick as two months. Others can take a year.” The updated Swype software will act according to user’s behaviour and will come with default dictionary editing, multimodal keyboard and voice and text dictionary sync.
