Voice Recognition for iPhone
I’ve recently tried out the 2 most popular iPhone voice recognition apps. I was seriously impressed with both of them.
I’ve always been fascinated by the feature on most phones where you can just speak a contact’s name and the phone dials that person. Brilliant! The technology gets better all the time. Thinking back, this feature was a selling point to me of which cellphone I would buy and I was generally disappointed.
Nowadays, our phones are so evolved and the application creators so clever, that not only can you dictate to your iPhone, but you can use the speech recognition sofware to send SMS and update your Facebook and Twitter accounts. I am so happy with this!
Ok, you know what the best news is?
Both applications are free!
If you have an iPhone you NEED one of these:
iPhone Voice Recognition Apps
Vlingo Voice App
Vlingo, I’d never heard of them. Impressive application…
Now, there is a paid option, it’s like 7 bucks, which will hardly break the bank, but you don’t even need to pay that. For free you can:
Browse the Web
Dial contacts
Update Facebook and Twitter and
Use Google Maps
To use it for emails and texts, you’ll need to pay the measly seven dollars.
Dragon Dictation
Now, I’m not going to recommend one over the other, both are excellent, but I will say that Dragon Dictation is totally free and in practice seems to be a lot faster.
The guy on this video is not using any camera trickery, this is exactly how it works.
I am so impressed by this, Nuance have never let me down. Check out my Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 review elsewhere on this site.
So, for iPhone voice recognition you’ve got 2 great contenders, doing slightly different things, but an awesome taste of things to come.
