Nuance Mobile Gives Users the Power to be the World’s Fastest Mobile Typist

On October 24, 2006, Nuance Communications hosted a challenge to determine the fastest and most accurate way to send SMS and email messages using a mobile device. In a classic match-up of man vs. machine, The Amazing Race pitted Ben Cook, recently crowned the world champion of text messaging, against Nuance Mobile Dictation, the speech recognition technology that empowers mobile phone users to create messages using speech.

Cook, a teen from Utah, holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest entry of a 160-character standardized message on a mobile device: “The razor toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.” Cook’s previous triple tap record for the standard message stood at 42.22 seconds

Nuance Mobile Dictation crushed the world record time, successfully completing this message in just 16.32 seconds.