I had a chance to meet the folks from Nuance, the company behind my favorite voice to text applications- Dragon Dictation and Search, Dragon NaturallySpeaking and MacSpeech Dictate (Nuance provides the speech to text engine behind the MacSpeech application). During our conversation one of the things they shared with me was the emphasis they are placing on their mobile apps… and for good reason since even they seemed to be a bit overwhelmed by how well the recently released apps have been received. (Personally I can’t imagine using my iPhone without it at this point.)

Well, true to their word the Dragon apps got updated tonight.

The huge new “feature” is that they have now added iPod Touch support for both Dragon Search and Dragon Dictation. This is a great addition that will make the apps/services even more valuable as legions of touch users now begin searching and writing by voice.

Also added is a new feature to Dragon Dictation where-by the app will automatically detect the end of speech so there is no longer a need to press the ‘Done’ button. To turn on the new feature you need to update the app and go into the main setting panel. I tried it and it works beautifully. The new feature, combine with a new UI that provides a bit more screen real estate for text input makes dictating better than ever on the iPhone.

You can read all about it on the DragonMobileApps Blog.