Nuance Communications will exhibiting at Macworld | iWorld at Moscone Center in San Francisco later this week, but they’d like to give you one announcement a little early. On Wednesday, January 25th, the company will officially announce their PaperPort Notes digital note taking tool for iPad will add support for Dragon Dictation, allowing users to capture comments and ideas directly in their digital notes simply by speaking.

Voice technology is the wave of the future, and behind that Wave is Nuance. They are behind nearly every implementation of voice recognition of which you are aware. They’re everywhere; from the voice systems at AT&T and Vonage, to MacSpeech, GPS units, in-car units, and so much more. At CES 2010, I sat down with a few of the guys at Nuance to have a little chat.

It’s the first night of Hanukkah tonight, and whether or not you care, I’m sure you won’t object to unwrapping some free apps. There’s an awesome video streaming app from Ustream, a dictation app that should cost at least $10, a Gorillacam for your Gorillapod, an IMDb app, and more!