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Thursday, October 13, 2011

SIRI [Alternative] for ANDROID : voice-activated assistant. its been there


Welcome is Tech Witches and Wizards

A week back two friends of mine (die hard fans of APPLE) came busting into my facebook wall as if they had become zombies and where programmed to attack my facebook wall. So what was the strange reason.

Apple's I-Phone has SIRI they say, An Artificially-intelligent software that could understand everything you tell and act per instructions without you even touching the iphone.
But they also put forward another claim, "Android don't have it"

Too bad for them that they did not even consider cusulting google and just jumped on apples advertisement.

The truth: Android has a voice activated assistant like SIRI : ok Actually it has more than one.

Its been long time since Android had these voice command recognizing tools.

if you just want to control Android with voice try.
Google Voice Actions
This is googles native voice recognition tool that can handle all Android operations but not that good with Facebook, Twitter and all those stuff.
So lets see the next.

These 2 are the ones that I would recommend the most

1) Vlingo
Vlingo Is a speech-to-text(S2T) and text-to-speech (T2S) app for Android (avilable for ios, blackberry too)  that is being vigorously developed.
  • Send SMS and e-Mails
  • Make calls
  • Search for Local businesses (like say "Find nearest Italian restaurant" and it will get it for you). 
  • Use it to Launch Apps in your phone (can't wait to tell "Angry Birds" :P).
  • Update your Facebook, Twitter or whatever.
  • And the amazing speech-to-text engine do not seem to be interested in making mistakes by misinterpreting words you speak, it's damn accurate.
  • Another amazing feature is how it gives you suggestions like: if you ask it to book a movie ticket i will get the show times and other details for you. 
This would be a more user friendlier one than Vlingo not to mention customizable, but the con of this app is that this is a pretty new app and can be a bit rough at time. Its lot better than vlingo on basis of the ability to understand language that you use to speak. eg: "Tell my friends am dead" ,tell that and it will update your facebook as "I am dead"
  • An animated Avatar to interact with (the default librarian is hot )
  • Avatar can be customized with lot of options.(male/female)
  • Learns you style of speaking as you use it.
  • Send SMS and Emails
  • Make calls.
  • Update social network status.
  • It can understand more words and commands than any other known voice recognition app. 
  • Location and navigation.
Yah true
some of these may seem a bit crude for SIRI, but The native [Google Voice Actions]Google Voice Actions is about to see a major boost release so behold.

That's all Folks  [  R64JGAYDDSUX ]

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