The third party voice recognition utility Dictate has a long way to go before it matches the native competition on iOS or Android, but the range of functions is growing nicely. See below for the changelog for the latest v2.3.0, plus links to quite a bit of Italian support material - we wish the developer would also put up more in English, for worldwide consumption.

Here's the changelog for v2.3.0 (over v2.1.0, which we reported here):

• Improved Maps positioning
• Improved reading SMS messages
• New Maps integration with Nokia Maps app
• Performance improvements

In addition, there are new ways of launching Dictate functionality, it seems (Volume up key), with an 'Everywhere' plug-in, though all the tutorial material for this seems to be in video form, in Italian, so I'm none the wiser. Can any Italian speakers here help out in the comments?

There's an Italian language support page for Dictate here, and you can buy Dictate for £1 here.

Some screens of Dictate v2.3.0 in action:

Comments welcome if you've got time (or the language skills!) to give all this a try...