There are a number of clever mobile applications that are designed to make our lives easier and more straight forward. Today we have news of a new Voice Assistant app that promises to be faster than a keyboard.

Voice Assistant for iOS devices promises to be an easy to use voice recognition application, which allows users to simply speak to instantly see their text or email messages they want to compose before sending, and it is being claimed is five times quicker than typing the same content on a keyboard.

Users of the application can also dictate status updates direct to their social networking applications such as Facebook and Twitter, and even send notes or reminders to themselves just by using their voice. The application works great when you are on the go and want to create text messages or emails.

The Voice Assistant app supports a number of languages and other features of the app include intelligent speech recognition that gets better with time, automatic grammar correction, content can be shared to Doc2Go, DropBox, Evernote, Pages, QuickPffice and more, supports landscape iPad mode, 22 languages supported, editing feature provides a list of suggested words, and much more.

Voice Assistant needs either Wi-Fi or 3G/EDGE to work and is available for owners of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch 2G or later with an external microphone. The application has just been updated and brings with it an enhanced UI, improved graphics, minor bugs fixed, and more.

For more information and to download Voice Assistant 1.1 head over to the App Store, and the application is priced at $0.99/£0.69. iOS 4.0 or later required.