Dragon for Email hits BlackBerry, turns your voice into a QWERTY keyboard

Okay, your voice isn't literally turning into a keyboard, but you know what we mean -- Dragon for Email is exactly what it sounds like, an app that brings Nuance's well-known speech-to-text technology to the BlackBerry platform with a special emphasis on composing emails. That's a perfect fit considering that email has remained BlackBerry's main raison d'être over the years, and it sounds delightfully unobtrusive considering that you merely need to press and hold your phone's side key while composing an email to kick off the dictation. Even better, it's free from App World for a limited time, so you might want to get in on that while the getting's good.

[JFH Posted Apr 21st 2010 6:45PM]

Now that is something I would like to see on other platforms as well...

[Johnny Rockets Posted Apr 21st 2010 6:53PM]

@ JFH

You mean like how Android has had it for 4 months now?

[GreatStoryBro Posted Apr 21st 2010 6:57PM]

@Johnny Rockets well now this is good news for bb owners. If only they had it for other phones like the palm pre. I hate the keyboard and would perfer voice text or whatever it's called.

[tcams76 Posted Apr 22nd 2010 12:49AM]

Palm Pre should have had voice out of the box to make up for the crappy key-board. And they wouldn't be up for sale at this moment...whose head should roll??

[bioadam Posted May 7th 2010 4:28PM]

My first e-mail using Dragon for E-mail on BB: "Hello baby dragon speaking working. I need LA think of the result. Maybe I need better hello to you soon." First impression, could use better voice recognition.