Voice Dial (speech recognition app)
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Description
Speech recognition for your iPhone: dial numbers without looking at the screen. Just speak to call the number. Accurate, fast and much safer in the car.
VoiceDial stores your speech samples and links them to your contacts. When you're on the go, it lets you keep in touch even when your hands are full.
The software has been tested by professional technology writers, and they found it to work flawlessly:
Gizmodo: "Voice dialing is one of the iPhone's missing features, but Voice Dial goes a long way to patching it up and works well"
Engadget: "Voice Dial for iPhone delivers everything you'd expect from a voice dial app"
San Jose Mercury News: “It works as advertised. In my short test, VoiceDial had no problems recognizing the contact I wanted to call, even when it was similar to other names I'd recorded.”
What's New in Version 1.0.2
OS 3.0 bug fix
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Some Things To Note Before Buying
I'm going to start with a serious bug in this program, that could literally cause you to end up repeatedly dialing a persons phone number indeffinatley, and every time they hang up you would literally call them right back!!! The problem is that when you finish a call, the phone exits back into the VoiceDial applicaiton. The application will prompt you for your voice automatically when it reloads. IF YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL, THE PROGRAM WILL STILL FIND A MATCH!!! This basially means it will always dial someone when you end a call, no matter what. If you were to call a friend, then set your phone down after you get off the call, and say, go into the other room. The VoiceDial app will prompt you for another voice, and it will hear nothing, but still find a match. It will call that person who will answer, hear no one and hang up... The VoiceDial app will be reactivated, will match that same person again, and call them back again. YOUR PHONE WILL CALL THAT PERSON INDEFFIANTLY UNTIL YOU MANUALLY CANCEL OUT OF THE VOICE DIAL APP!!! Because of this, the app can truely cause serous problems!! Also, Interestingly enough, the pictures shown in iTunes are from a different version of VoiceDial than you will get though iTunes. They show features here in the application preview that simply don't exist in the version you get when you click Buy App. They seem to assume people who go though iTunes & buy this app will somehow know this, even though no indication is given to this fact (the pictures, as it turns out, are from a version only available for hacked phones not available though iTunes). When I contacted them I also got asked 20 questions about who I bought it from, what my order reference nubmer was, etc. They again assume iTunes purchasers have thourougly researched them and somehow know they were selling an illigitimate version prior to being available though here. THEY DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THEY HAVE GOTTEN IN TO BY SELLING THOUGH ITUNES! THEY SEEM TO ASSUME ALL USERS ARE PEOPLE WHO HACK THEIR PHONES!!!
Amazing App!!! --1.0.1 Updated--
Delivers as promised... Faster and 100% accuracy!!! Having Trouble Matching? Train yourself to speak AFTER the beep prompt so voicedial can capture your speech entirely to ensure accurate match. Review: Numbers stored in standard non-prefixed formats are successful with superb accuracy. (update: still some minor GSM INTERNATIONAL STANDARD prefix dialing issues that may no longer be a Voicedial problem... Voicedial now waits for iPhone dialer to launch -iPhone 2.0.2 dialing restrictions may still be an issue.)
Absolutely Useless
I was looking for a replacement for my Blackberry dialler - and this does not come close. You need to program every name (3 x times to be more certain!), push a button to launch the app, the push another button to confirm the right name. I have thousand of contacts, and this is totally impractical. Even if I had 25 contacts, it would be easier to put them all in "favourites". Save your money.
- $1.99
- Category: Business
- Updated: Jul 13, 2009
- Version: 1.0.2
- Size: 1.7 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Vincent Verweij
- © 2008, Makayama Media B.V.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone.Requires iOS 2.0 or later
