BARCELONA, Spain, February 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

- Groundbreaking Four-in-One Keypad App Lets Consumers Speak, Trace, Write or Tap; Expanded Language Support for US and UK English, German, French, Italian and Spanish

2011 Mobile World Congress -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN) today announced that its innovative multimodal FlexT9 app for Android is making its debut in Europe, supporting six languages including US and UK English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. Recently launched in the US, FlexT9 combines Dragon Dictation, T9 Trace, T9 Write and XT9, empowering consumers to choose how they stay connected, whether they speak, trace, write or tap.

FlexT9 delivers the industry's first truly multimodal input experience by seamlessly integrating Nuance's renowned Dragon speech technology with its innovative T9 predictive touch input portfolio in a simple, easy-to-use all-in-one keyboard. FlexT9 allows users to switch between different input methods with just a simple tap - and now they can easily toggle back and forth between all six supported languages to:

    
    - Speak: Nuance's Dragon Dictation app has been downloaded by millions of 
      iPhone users around the world to turn talk into text, and is now 
      available as part of FlexT9 with full Dictate Anywhere capabilities on 
      Android. So anytime and anywhere you want to speak your text, you can
      - into emails, SMS text messages, Facebook and Twitter updates, web
      searches, instant messaging and more.
    - Trace: Continuous touch input has become one of the hottest and fastest 
      ways to input text for messaging and emailing on a mobile device. With 
      T9 Trace, users easily glide their finger from one letter to the next 
      on the virtual keypad. T9 Trace uses all of the leading features of
      Nuance's renowned XT9 text input solution, creating an accurate and 
      fast text input experience.
    - Write: With T9 Write, users can simply use their finger to draw words 
      and phrases, numbers, symbols, accented characters and more on the 
      touch screen, and instantly see results.
    - Tap: Nuance's renowned XT9 predictive text input technology ships on 
      billions of phones around the world, and is at the core of FlexT9 to
      enable next word prediction, word completion, Sloppy-Type (TM) word 
      error correction, spell correction, and much more across the entire 
      input experience, including T9 Write and T9 Trace.

Availability

FlexT9 is currently available for download in the Android App Store for $4.99 USD in English (US and UK), German, French, Italian and Spanish, supporting Android OS v2.1 and higher.

To learn more about FlexT9 and the full Dragon Mobile Apps portfolio, visit http://www.dragonmobileapps.com

For more information on Nuance, please visit: nuance.com.

SOURCE Nuance Communications