BOOYAH! Speech recognition for iPhone... finally!

I just picked this up off Installer on my iPhone. A new voice-activation software for the iPhone... one of the most sorely-needed features. According to the notes, you can voice-dial a number; answer/decline incoming calls; activate any app by speech; launch a bookmark; and more. I haven't had a chance to experiment with it yet, but hopefully it's at least half as good as it sounds.
http://www.makayama.com/iphonevoicedial.html

Hmm, this looks really cool. I think I'll check it out.

I can only imagine what sort of apps we'll see once the SDK is released

Playing with this right now... I'm a bit disappointed that the voice dial can only be set once per contact. So if your contact has multiple numbers, it dials the "first" one it finds. It also wouldn't let me exit the program at least once now... forcing me to shut the phone off. Hopefully that won't be a huge problem. For the few contacts I'd voice dial, I can just split them into multiple contacts per number for now.

Yah... I'm looking forward to the SDK release also. It's amazing what all these people have done so far without one!

Well this is ridiculous. I'm still trying to test and refine my voice commands when I get a message my trial expired. Total time "trying" it: 20 minutes. And I had yet to get it to reliably recognize the command to call my wife.

Does anyone actually use voice dialers? I know they're useful if you're a blue-tooth ear-piece user (assuming looking like a plonker is not an issue for you), but they're so unreliable and the tech seems to have barely improved since I had this feature on the K700i 4 years ago.

Hmmm... compare and contrast. My new car has an integrated Bluetooth "headset" in the cabin - integrated microphone and speakers, plus a full voice activated menu system. Of course I paired it to my iPhone immediately. I have set up about 4 voice dials so far it worked the first time, and keeps working everytime. Clearly there is better voice reco software and hardware out there than the combo of iPhone and this new application. Too bad though; I agree that a good voice driven interface would be an awesome addition.

i was going to download this app but for just a 20min test i cant be bothered.

also phone have had voice dial for such a long time and there is not a lot of point to it i mean i use it so much i dident even know the iphone dident have it.

would would be nice is a speech typing app for the iphone so i can use it like a tape recorder but it types what i say.

Zoolook said:

Does anyone actually use voice dialers? I know they're useful if you're a blue-tooth ear-piece user (assuming looking like a plonker is not an issue for you), but they're so unreliable and the tech seems to have barely improved since I had this feature on the K700i 4 years ago.

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with speed dialing so easy, i never did. but lets face it, speed dial isnt as easy on an iphone, it takes a few more pushes.

kgeier82 said:

with speed dialing so easy, i never did. but lets face it, speed dial isnt as easy on an iphone, it takes a few more pushes.

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Exactly the problem. And you can't do it without looking at the screen... a bit inconvenient if not dangerous, depending on the situation.

Zoolook said:

Does anyone actually use voice dialers? I know they're useful if you're a blue-tooth ear-piece user (assuming looking like a plonker is not an issue for you), but they're so unreliable and the tech seems to have barely improved since I had this feature on the K700i 4 years ago.

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I did. I had a Sanyo SCP-8100 flip phone on Sprint, and I had a couple voice dial numbers in it. It was great because I could flip it open, push one easy-to-find button, and speak the name. It worked 90% of the time. The same numbers were speed dial numbers, but usually I'd just voice dial them.

Frankly I miss voice dialing and voice memos, which I also used to use.

Speed dial from the home screen

http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/01/22/add-speed-dial-icons-to-the-iphone-113-home-screen/

This is one feature I miss form my old phone. If you have a lot of contacts, it can be much faster to voice dial than to look up the contact.

Hopefully there will be better version made after the SDK because I don't have a jailbroken phone and I'm not paying $33 dollars for such a minor feature.

voicethis

I found a much better voice dialer app on the App store called voicethis. It is at least 10 times better than voice dial by makayama because first of all it doesnt require any training or voice tags (who has time for that??) and it can voice dial anyone in your contact list including foreign characters at a speed of 1 second. Its the only voice dialer on the App store that is actually useful, the rest are all way too slow even if they are accurate if its too slow why would anyone use it?

Try voicethis you will not be disappointed. I personally use it everyday and I love it!

here's speech-based search for the iPhone.

AppleInsider | Say Where for iPhone offers speech-based search