2. DRAGON DICTATION App application

3. Description Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard. With Dragon Dictation you can also dictate status updates directly to your Social Networking applications (Facebook and Twitter) or send notes and reminders to yourself….all using your voice. So when you’re on-the-go, stop typing and start speaking – from short text messages to longer email messages, and anything in between.

4. FEATURES Voice-to-text transcriptions that may be sent as SMS, Email, or pasted into any application using the clipboard Submit text to Social Networking applications – Twitter and Facebook Convenient editing feature that provides a list of suggested words Voice driven correction interface Dragon Dictation supports a multitude of global languages A free application

5. REQUIREMENTS 1. Dragon Dictation requires network connectivity (WiFi or 3G/EDGE). 2. Dragon Dictation works on iPad, iPhone, and on second and third generation iPod Touch (external microphone required).

6. Can I speak commands and punctuations when I dictate? Yes. If you want to have punctuation in your dictation results, you can speak them by saying "comma", "period", etc. Some special symbols such as "$", "%" are automatically placed in context. You can also perform some basic text commands by speaking them; for example you can say "New Paragraph" to have a new paragraph in your dictation. Below is a list of commonly used commands and punctuations.

7. Commonly used commands: 1- "New Line" or "Next Line" Press the enter key once, capitalize next word. 2- "New Paragraph" or "Next Paragraph" Press the enter key twice, capitalize next word

8. Commonly used Punctuations : &"ampersand" or "and sign"."period" :"colon"?"question mark" !"exclamation point","comma" ="equal sign"@"at sign" /"forward slash" or "slash"-"hyphen" '"begin single quote" or "open single quote"'"end single quote" or "close single quote" " "begin quote" or "open quote" " "close quote" or "end quote" ( "left parenthesis" or "open parenthesis" )"right parenthesis" or "close parenthesis" %"percent sign"$"dollar sign" #"pound sign"°"degree sign"

9. How to use it ? (Demonstration)

10. When install you can choose between verity of languages for the app. I chose Arabic.

11. Then the app asks you to take only the names in your phone book so that the names would be easier to recognize. I chose yes.

12. Press yes to start the app.

13. This how the app looks. To stat recording press the red spot.

14. This how it looks when you start recording.

15. After recording the text will appear like shown in the picture.

16. You can correct any wrong words easily and dialectally.

17. Finally, sending your text to facebook, twitter … etc.

18. Here I chose to send it as a sms messages.

19. Inshallah you enjoyed my presentation Watch this video on youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agG6vqpTyoY To download the app : http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragon- dictation/id341446764?mt=8 For any questions contact me on : ksutrans@hotmail.com

20. Norah Al- sebaie & Safyah Al-rajhi

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