We were left practically speechless by the quality of Dragon Dictation, an iPhone app that does instant speech-to-text transcription. The same company has just unveiled their latest iPhone offering — Dragon Search — and it’s just as impressive as the first.

Dragon Search [iTunes link] is powered by the company’s remarkably accurate speech-to-text transcription technology, and gives users the ability to search so much more than Google. With your voice search you can instantly toggle through results from Google, Yahoo, Bing, YouTube, Twitter Search, iTunes and Wikipedia.

The app is stupidly simple to use and lightening fast. After you launch it, simply click the red button to say your search query. Hit “done” and you’ve just searched practically the entire web with your voice. Results are displayed on single pageviews per search engine, and you can use your finger to quickly scroll through the horizontal toolbar to arrive at your destination of choosing.

The application works best in a quiet environment, but during testing it was able to decipher our complicated voice commands far more accurately than other voice search applications on the market. In fact, Dragon Search worked without any errors whatsoever. Given that the app supports search for an array of sites, it could prove to be a handy resource and huge time-saver for hands-free mobile searches.

[via MacWorld]

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