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Can't get the hang of two-thumbed typing? Perplexed by predictive text? Cursed with sausage fingers? Or just plain lazy?

Never fear. Your days of tapping messages into your mobile using tiny keys could be over after a new 'phone 'app was released that turns speech into text.
Users can dictate messages into the phone which displays what they have said on the screen at the tap of a button. It can then be sent as a text or email.
Dragon Dictation, due to be released in the UK this week, is free to download onto iPhones and has become one of the most popular applications in the U.S

Nuance, the American firm behind it which pioneered predictive text and provides the in-car voice-activated controls in top-of-the-range BMWs, is confident it works.
Any mistakes can be corrected by tapping the screen to register an error and choosing from a drop-down list of replacements. And if the worst comes to the worst, you can always delete the word and type in the right one.

Drawbacks include needing a good 3G connection, having to manually call up recipients' details to send the message, and problems with place names, proper nouns and regional accents.
Similar apps are available for other handsets such as Android and Blackberry, although these are considered less reliable at present.

Nuance are also planning to launch an app that uses voice-recognition technology to carry out web searches, although Google's Android phones already have this feature.