Voice input for medical apps to trend?

Touchscreen devices will never catch up to the speed of typing on keyboards, but speech recognition technology can help such devices bridge that gap. "I definitely think voice will be the primary form of input into these mobile devices," Dreyer told MobiHealthNews recently. Nuance first entered the apps market two years ago with the launch of its Dragon Mobile Medical Search and Dragon Medical Recorder, free applications that were complementary to its desktop products for healthcare. In February, it launched the Nuance Mobile Healthcare Development Platform, a cloud-based service that allows third parties -- software developers at vendor companies as well as hospital providers (internal IT labs at hospitals or provider facilities) -- to rapidly integrate speech recognition into their mobile device or web client. Next year, the service will expand to Europe with 23 additional supported languages.