Simon K

Hi all,

MAte has a new iphone 4s thing and I like the way he just speaks to it and it either texts / dails contacts.

I have a HTC Desire HD, is there an app I can download to do this too ?? I know I have a pi55 poor speach thing for texting, i.e. you say a sentance and it translates it into text, never 100% right :-) But, this phone, he's presses a button, or it listens and can ring people.

SBK

Trout

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Ed Miller Band

TinyTim

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Try looking for 'Vlingo' - supposed to be the next best thing on the iphone.

kingofturds

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iris although it's in alpha stage at the minute so do not expect it to be as polished as siri .

CREWJ

Can't you do it just by holding the home button for voice control?

andy97

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My Htc Desire has voice dialler, just press the app, it launches and I talk, works very well. There is also voice search.

They are on the Market. free to download!

ChefDude

google app is supposed to be quite good?

mamoon2

Works very well? I call bollox

hux309

Android ics should come with something similar, perhaps a rom for your desire will surface?

Simon K

I download Vlingo. Although it's meant to work, I had more fun watching it translate my words to text, as the translation was amazing. I tried to text my brother / a few mates, to see if they wanted to meet for a coffee, however the phone texted something about a sausage and a hair comb :-)

SBK

JackClark

You have no hope, even the big guns in speech to text have been blown away by what a great team and serious investment can do. Give it two years - as usual - and Android will have similar built in. Forget trying to use apps to get the same experience.

TinyTim

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Sounds like Siri on my mates iPhone 4s... the very reason im in no hurry to rush out and buy one....

ChefDude

if you live outside the m25, Siri is unlikely to understand you. i wonder if they did that on purpose

Nimbus

Well, I've been trying out the Voice Control on the Samsung Galaxy S2 and it's very good. Sending text, navigate to locations, call people. So far it's managed to correctly hear everything I've said. Not seen Siri so can't compare directly, but I think your comment that with Android you "have no hope" is a bit wide of the mark..

albob

for a report on IRIS go here



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=vfcfckILNHo

JackClark

Correctly hearing and correctly understanding are completely different, dictation and text to speech have been around for donkeys years. If you think a bloke in his bedroom can compete with a software giant in this space then you might want to think again. Two years and you'll see similar for other devices. My track record on this subject is impeccable.

JackClark

Love it, that's what's being touted as the Siri Killer?? Ha!!

TinyTim

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So it doesnt work for native English then...

JackClark

Here's a little reading for the IRIS developers.

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/26/why-g...-to-fear-siri/

Gear Head

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jonc

Much like most of Apple's "innovations", Apple bought the company Siri last year for over $200m and acquired the great team so that it could stand on the shoulders of those creative geniuses who invested, invented and truly innovated this technology so that Apple could integrated it into its own product and call it their own.

That in itself is not a problem, but lets not try to pass it off that Apple came up with this technology.

Nimbus

Jack, what do you think I meant when I said it correctly heard what I had said? It correctly understood what I was saying as did what I asked. And what's with the comment about a bloke in his bedroom? Do you know who developed the voice software that's on the Samsung?

JackClark

What did you say to it and what was its response. Did you watch the youtube video?

Jaybird-UK

Siri needed an established, trusted company like Apple to back its technology. Mass adoption was never going to happen until Siri became a fully integrated part of the operating system.

Nimbus

No, I asked it to send a text to one of my contacts, and then to switch on Driving mode (so it will speak received texts) and navigate to a destination.

JackClark

All local functions which misses the point. Watch the video, it's funny.

Nimbus

No, it's exactly the point. The OP wanted to know how to send texts and make calls with voice. I responded that my Android phone can do that.

I'm not trying to compare it against Siri, since I have no experience with that.

JackClark

You said I was wide of the mark. I don't believe I was anything like wide of the mark.

Nimbus

That's because you were talking about one thing and I was talking about another..

Saint AAI

Eva is another one on Android devices and there is a free version. If the Pico TTS speech gets annoying you can install a better one. I've got SVOX Classic installed and paid about 99p for an English sounding female voice.