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Merriam-Webster Announces Free iPhone Dictionary App with Voice Search

Merriam-Webster Announces Free iPhone Dictionary App with Voice Search

America’s most trusted dictionary is now available as a free iPhone app, and includes one feature that word-lovers will be talking about, or perhaps talking to.

Merriam-Webster now offers the first free dictionary app with voice search, allowing users to look up a word by speaking it directly into the phone—without having to spell it out.  Voice search capabilities are powered by Nuance Communications’ renowned Dragon voice recognition technology.

“Voice search is an example of the kind of innovation that Merriam-Webster has been bringing to the dictionary business for more than 150 years,” says President and Publisher John M. Morse. “And with the mobile platform being the fastest growing part of our business, we’re pleased to bring our content to wherever our audience happens to be.”

Along with voice search, the free app offers more than 225,000 definitions from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary and 300,000 synonyms and antonyms from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Thesaurus.  Additional features include the popular Word of the Day, example sentences, audio pronunciations, and recent look-up history.

For more details, please visit the iPhone app store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/merriam-webster-dictionary/id399452287?mt=8.

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