Avatron Software Introduces Air Dictate App Enabling Users to Talk Into iPhone 4S to Automatically Enter Text Onto Mac Computers

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Avatron Software today unveiled Air Dictate, an app that enables Mac users to enter text onto their computers simply by talking into an iPhone 4S. Air Dictate is available at a special introductory price of 99 cents. Avatron is the first developer to use its own user interface to enable Apple's Siri technology to take dictation.

Apple expressly prohibits developers from using private Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). And, there aren't any public APIs enabling Siri to take dictation. Avatron programmers, independent of Apple, have devised codes that empower Siri to automatically convert speech spoken into an iPhone 4S into a Mac's text field, just as if it was typed on the computer's keyboard.

"Siri technology has understandably generated a lot of excitement by enabling users to carry on conversations with their iPhone 4S," said Dave Howell, Avatron CEO. "While Siri does what you say, until now it lacked the ability to take iPhone's users' speech and automatically convert it into text on Macs.

"Air Dictate does exactly this, dramatically simplifying and speeding the inputting of text without a keyboard onto any Mac app accommodating text input such as TextEdit, Mail, Pages and Microsoft Word, simply by talking into an iPhone 4S," Howell said.

Setting up Air Dictate is easy. Mac users need only log onto avatron.com/i, install the free Air Dictate Receiver app, and launch any text input app. iPhone users, after launching Air Dictate, choose their Mac from a list of nearby computers, press the microphone button to speak and again to stop. Siri, under Air Dictate's command, will convert this speech into text, which will automatically appear on the Mac's chosen text field.

Air Dictate, which in addition to an iPhone 4S requires a Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later, is the newest app from Avatron, the maker of Air Display, Air Sharing and Print Sharing. Each Avatron app is available in the iOS and Mac app stores.

About Avatron Software:
Avatron® Software is a leading developer of productivity-enhancing applications that blur the boundaries between personal computers, mobile devices, and the cloud. Avatron's Air Sharing document-management app was downloaded by more than 1 million users in its first two weeks and raised the bar for iOS application design and quality. The company's Air Display app turns an iPad into a wireless computer monitor with a touch screen. Avatron was founded in April 2008 by former Apple engineering manager Dave Howell and a team of veteran Mac OS X programmers. The company is based in Portland, Oregon.

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