

It claims the reason the data is taken is to aid recognition of the names in your contacts. The developer of Dragon Dictation said on a iTunes post: "we only upload names, not emails, phone numbers, or other personal details," insisting that they don't even know which of the names is the owner of the phone. This is mentioned in the EULA, but it may not be clear to all users. Luckily, Dragon Dictation has a text editing feature that lets you go back over your transcripts and correct them manually, but if it makes as many mistakes with you as it did with me you'll probably give up after a while.Īnother issue that many people have noted is the way Dragon Dictation takes users' phone contacts and uploads them to their server.

I tried to talk very slowly and even attempted an American accent but to no avail. Perhaps this could be because of my regional British accent, because many reviewers on the App Store are praising the accuracy of Dragon Dictation. In reality, I have to question the accuracy of Dragon Dictation because it never recognized any of the phrases I said during my extensive tests (evidence of which you'll see in the garbled nonsense written in a couple of the screenshots).
