I love the dragon app, I have foolishly trusted this with important business and personal msgs, the ad often pops up during my dictation and i loose my current work, when i choose dragon again sometines it still ther sometimes i get a blank new page please please please help .......

Dragon Dictation software is one of the best speech to text software right now.
There's one more option for PC users.
Wave To Text v5.2
http://www.111download.com/product/wave-to-text-v.html
Wave To Text is an English speech recognition-based dictation pad with a WAV to text converter.

The fact that you can't simultaneously see what the actual text is as you're talking is a significant drawback with both the speech to text and even worse for searching. Would be extremely irritating to do searches and regularly have it search for the wrong words and not know that until you see the results of the search and then go back and do it again. At least if you saw what the phone was recognizing your speech as in real time, you could cancel the process if it wasn't right before having it do a search for something you don't want.

Are these different from the Dragon (Nuance) search and dictation apps that are already available on the iPhone for about a year? I already have both, and have for quite some time; there's also a Dragon dictation app for the iPad specifically (although the search app is still, as far as I know, iPhone specific). Are these new versions of the same apps?

I think Nuance "available for free for an unspecified time" is how the peach dreck cognition is provided on Android, too. And that in that case, everything you say is sent over the network to Nuance's server to be decoded, and probably scanned by U.S. Homeland Security. All right if it works and if you aren't plotting against America...

The Apple offering probably is either exactly the same, or performing recognition on the local processor, which is pretty hard work but for me almost a killer app for the thing. Mind you, Windows 7 tablets have built-in speech recognition - all full 7 and Vista editions do - and it isn't helping them much generally.

Said Ed: "Apple copies Android but they're not giving it away, so pay, fanbios, pay."

Said article: "Nuance said that both will be available for free for an unspecified time."

Sez me: "Should have gone to SpecSavers, Ed".

Is this a paid for Ad? Wheres the review/comment?

Hasn't the Android OS been doing speech to text for a while now?

My Nexux One came with it and it works very well.

Apple copies Android but they're not giving it away, so pay, fanbios, pay.