Dragon Mobile Assistant
Overview
Named one of
TIME Magazine
’s ’50 Best Android Apps for 2013, Dragon
Mobile Assistant is a lead example in the latest and greatest design,
feature and technical concepts in the intelligent personal assistant space.
Using Nuance’s renowned language understanding, ambient intelligence
and expressive voice technology, Dragon Mobile Assistant actively listens,
interprets commands, and provides a flexible, adaptive, and intuitive
2013
Q1’13 Q2’13 Q3’13 Q4’132014
R3.0 • Web Search • Trip Advisor • Launch Maps • Connect to Facebook • Bluetooth IntegrationRelease Milestones (2012 – 2014)
R4.0 • TTS read back • Support Reminders • Location Services • Driver Mode • Email Dictation R4.2 • Network TTS • Revised Menu andSettings
• Streamlined Sign Up and Home Screen
R5.1
• Calendar Search and Edit
• Device Setting Voice Management • Weather Card • Knowledge Card R3.1 • Location Sharing • Wake-Up Phrase
• TTS Read back Caller Name
• Alert to Support MMS
R4.1
• Location Sharing updates • Multiple TTS Voice Options • Read back of SMS and
Notifications
• Double tap Home Key launches DMA
R5.0
• Wake Up Phrase & One Shot Command
• First app to utilize Nuance Cloud Services platform • Introduction of Cards and
Receipts experience
R2.0
• Music playback
• Open applications
• Create new alarm
• Alert and TTS read back of incoming SMS • Voice dialing R1.0 • First Launch • Calling, Texting, command and control • DragonGo! Web search and results
Q4’12 Q1’14
R5.2
• Nuance Voice Print (voice biometrics) • Landscape Mode • New Web Browser +
content sharing experience
Reviewer’s Guide
The following section showcases some of the highlights and innovative
features of Nuance’s Dragon Mobile Assistant.
Setup Instructions
NOTE: Only Android versions 4.0 and higher are supported
1. On your device, Go to Settings > Security > Unknown Source
2. Check the following box: “Allow installation of apps from sources other than the Play
Store.”
3. Install the application (APK) provided to you by Nuance PR or Media team contact by
sending it to the device via USB file sharing, as an email attachment sent to your device (or whatever your preferred method might be).
4. Find the file on your device, either in Downloads or in your email and click on it.
5. When the device prompts you regarding if you want to keep the file anyway, click ‘OK’.
6. Click on “Install” to install the application.
7. Press OK to allow the application permissions to access features of the device.
8. Open the app.
9. Login with your Facebook account.
10. Skip the ‘Create Voice Print’ popup – (we will take you through that process a bit later)
Application Features
Nuance has developed a variety of features for users to interact naturally and intuitively.
Here are a few of Dragon Mobile Assistant’s most popular features:
Send a text Find restaurants and make reservations Access content and information from a wide variety of websites Make a call Wake up your assistant and ask it to do something all in one command Post to Twitter and Facebook Launch an app Look up local businesses and points of interest Notification and Alert Read-back Play on-device music Check the weather Hands free Voice Wake up of Dragon Mobile Assistant Set an alarm and get the
current time Use maps and find directions
Multiple Voice options for your assistant
Create or Search an event in
your calendar Auto detection of traveling (Driver Mode)
Customize your assistant’s wake up phrase
Natural Interaction - Your choice.
Dragon Mobile Assistant allows for flexible, natural controls for calling, messaging,
creating calendar events, looking up maps and directions and accessing social
media.
Users can perform a task with either a single command for advanced users, or
Dragon will ask questions and offer guidance to help users fill in the details.
Single command or ‘One-shot’
1. User: “Create an appointment tomorrow at 7pm called Dinner with John”
Complex task or ‘Multi-step’
1. User: “I need to create an appointment”
2. Dragon: “When is it for?”
3. User: “7pm tomorrow”
4. Dragon: “Here is your appointment, would you like to save, edit or
cancel it?”
5. User: “Change the subject to “Dinner with John”
6. Dragon: “I’ve update the title. Should I go ahead and schedule it?”
Customize Your Wake-up phrase
Set your customized Wake-up phrase
1. Go to the Settings Menu
2. Select “Wake-up”
3. Select “Wake-up phrase”
4. Type your preferred Wake-up phrase over the
‘Hello Dragon’ default. (“Hello Dude”, “Hello Jonathan”, etc)
5. Select “OK”
Choose how you want to get your Dragon’s attention by creating your own
Wake-up phrase.
Attentive Mode
Set Attentive Mode
1. Slide out the side Shortcut Menu
2. Select “Attentive Mode”
3. Create your Nuance Voice Print
4. Select “OK” to the accept the notice
Get your assistants attention, hands free, even when
your device is asleep or in lock mode.
Now Try it out:
1. Exit out of the app and lock your phone screen
Auto-Detect Driver Mode
Set Auto-Detect Driver Mode
1. Go to the Settings Menu
2. Select “Driver Mode”
3. Select “Auto-enable Driver Mode”
4. Check “While Driving”
5. Select “Enable”
This feature automatically detects when you are in a moving vehicle and
switches to hands-free, eyes-free experience, keeping users connected in a
safer (and smarter) way.
Now Try it out:
1. Mount your device safely before driving 2. The app will automatically change to
Notifications Read back
Set Notification Read back
1. Go to the Settings Menu
2. Select “Read back Notifications”
3. Select “Notifications to Read”
4. All are default selected, besides Facebook
5. Select “Facebook Newsfeed”
Alerts, notifications and Facebook newsfeed updates can be read out loud.
After read back, you can respond, post to Facebook or any number of other
actions.
Now Try it out:
1. The next time you get an SMS or calendar popup, the app will read it back to you.
2. You will have Facebook updates read back at specific intervals
Try These Out.
Make a callUser: “[Wake-up phrase], call John at work” Or “[Wake-up phrase], ring Ashley on her mobile”
Send a message
User: “[Wake-up phrase], Tell Natalie, I’m on my way home”
Or “[Wake-up phrase], Send Neil a message saying We landed on the moon!”
Create an event in your calendar
User: “[Wake-up phrase], Make an appointment this Sunday at 1:30 pm”
Update Facebook or Twitter
User: “[Wake-up phrase], Update Facebook, Anyone up for apple picking? Or: “[Wake-up phrase], Send out a new Tweet, What an incredible finish to the game!
Look up information and content
User: “[Wake-up phrase], When is Finding Nemo 3D playing today?
Here are the most popular spoken user commands in Dragon Mobile Assistant.
Give ‘em a go.
Use maps and find directions
User: “[Wake-up phrase], Get directions to Fenway Park” Or: “[Wake-up phrase], Show me a map of Chicago”
Get answers to interesting questions
User: “[Wake-up phrase], How tall is the Eifel Tower?” or “What’s the square root of 45?”
Searching for businesses
User: “[Wake-up phrase], Staples in Cambridge Massachusetts” Or: “[Wake-up phrase], Hardware stores nearby”
Check the weather
User: “[Wake-up phrase], What’s the weather going to be like today? ” Or: “[Wake-up phrase], What’s the forecast for San Francisco?”
Launch an App (requires applications to be installed on your device)
User: “[Wake-up phrase], Open calculator” Or: “[Wake-up phrase], Launch Angry Birds”
What’s New in Version 5.2?
Our latest update brings to life Nuance Voice Print voice biometrics, the
introduction of Landscape Mode, and a redesigned Web Browsing experience.
Here are some of the highlights:
ü User Recognition: Upon creating their own Nuance Voice Print, users can now speak
their wake up phrase and command and their assistant will respond to them and only them, making it a truly personal experience.
ü New Semantic Web Browser experience: We have redesigned the user experience for
web search and results. Optimized for performance and ‘at a glance’ ease of use, the new experience is more intuitive and faster than ever before.
ü Landscape Mode: You asked, we listened. Landscape mode is now fully supported
through the application – giving users another way to interact with their assistant. Driver Mode is now even better when users dock in Landscape mode.
Nuance Voice Print (voice biometrics)
1. Go to Settings > Wake-up > Create Voice Print
2. Follow the instructions to create your own Voice Print.
(Alternatively, users that want to try out Attentive Mode or Driver Mode now can have an enhanced experience by training a voice print before using those features.)
Allow your personal assistant to respond to you - and only you – with Voice Print
- Nuance’s powerful voice biometrics solution.
Now Try it out:
1. Say “[Wake-up phrase], Where’s the nearest Starbucks?”
2. Have your friends speak the same Wake-up phrase and
An all-new Web Browsing Experience
Interact with the all new Browser.
1. Speak “Hello Dragon, Show me a picture of an
Elephant.”
2. You can now interact directly from the web
results and select alternative result options directly from the browser.
3. You can now share web result content. Simply
press the top menu icon in the browser to see sharing options.
Engage more content. We’ve rethought a new in-app browser experience for
interacting and sharing content from your assistant.
Landscape Mode
Try it out: Just turn your
phone sideways!
1. Dragon Mobile Assistant can do
everything you have grown to expect, but now render it in Landscape
orientation.
2. Driver mode is now optimized, so go
ahead and dock your device and give your first command.
