Vocalia app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Creaceed SRL
First release : 26 Sep 2008
App size: 4.58 Mb
Vocalia is the only 100% hands free speech recognition application which enables speech access to your address book, iTunes library and Safari bookmarks.
It works on iPod Touch (as of 2nd generation) and iPhone.
And all updates are FREE for life!!
Do you have many contacts in your address book?
Do you have dozens of songs, and as many bookmarks?
Would you like to use a speech recognition tool?
You should add Vocalia to your iPhone!
How does it work?
1. Click the icon to make Vocalias Eye appear
2. Choose the right mode: Contacts, iPod or Bookmarks.
3. Speak the name of the contact, artist or bookmark.
4. Vocalia selects the results close to what you pronounced.
5. Select the correct number by saying "home", "work"... (Contact Mode), or the song to be played by saying "All songs", or the title of a particular album or song (iPod Mode).
Key features
• Provides phonemic transcriptions for all contacts (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Spanish)
• Shows up to 10 results
• Obeys to your voice at every step
• No network connection required
• No "Tap to speak"
• Displays visual effects responding to sound & gravity
You can...
• Define vocal shortcuts in addition to contact names (My best friend)
• Split first & last name
• Set the navigation mode
• Activate Proximity Sensing in noisy environments
• Shake the iPhone to try again
• Activate vibration so that you know when to start speaking
• Import bookmarks from your Mac or PC.
TIPS FOR BETTER RESULTS:
- check the "Spoken Language"
- activate the option "Split Names" in the settings
- read the FAQs: www.creaceed.com/vocalia/faq.html
- read the User Guide: www.creaceed.com/vocalia/userguide.html
Latest reviews of Vocalia app for iPhone and iPad
Works great for me. Nearly 100% if I speak the full name of the contact. Loaded slowly on the first launch, but then seemed to be ready within a second or two on successive launches. I suspect it might need to reindex after changes to the contact database. The shake-to-retry gesture is intuitive. 2.0 is quite usable, and its only going to get better.
I purchased this thinking finally a voice dial app that may work and well! Nothing, does not find what i say at all.
Too slow and doesnt work well. Even after editing the phonetizations it only brought in the correct name half the time. I wanted it to make me faster at finding a contact. Instead it (the app itself) ran too slow and it took multiple tries to get the right contact. Just frustrated me. Removing the app. Want money back.
Disappointing experience after reading the more positive review.
Just got it. Tried it 12 times and it has not recognized a name one single time. I so wish I could get my money back!