Just a month after the last major update, Dictate, the third party voice recognition utility, has been tweaked again, this time to add sports, news, SMS composition, camera opening, and more. It's still light years behind Apple's Siri, but hey, it's voice recognition and it's on the 15 year old platform that is Symbian, so (for a quid) who's complaining?

Here's the full changelog for v2.6.0:

• New function: Sport and latest news
• Compose SMS with just voice
• Reply on new messages after reading
• Open Camera app
• Wizard screen added for first start
• IAP support deprecated (by Nokia)

Here's the new version in action:

The new 'wizard' helps set up languages, should you not want English, etc.

Continuing to list the various things you can say to Dictate; (right) trying to send a text message (didn't get very close!!)

Dictate piggy backs onto Google's voice recognition servers, so it's tempting to partly blame Google. But I have to say that trying to use Dictate for real world actions is still painful. The screenshot above right was my fifth attempt to send a text to Rafe. It didn't even come close.

You can buy Dictate for £1 here if you fancy playing too!