Sunday, November 27, 2011

List of Top Voice Assistant Mobile Apps for Smartphones

Speech recognition is triggering the next revolution in mobile user experience. Voice recognition softwares allow people to access information, create messages, and control mobile devices all with the power of voice and advanced text input.
Speech recognition is a broader solution that refers to technology that can recognize speech without being targeted at single speaker—such as a call system that can recognize arbitrary voices.
Speech recognition applications include voice user interfaces such as voice dialing (e.g., “Call home”), call routing (e.g., “I would like to make a collect call”), domotic appliance control, search (e.g., find a podcast where particular words were spoken), simple data entry (e.g., entering a credit card number), preparation of structured documents (e.g., a radiology report), speech-to-text processing (e.g., word processors or emails), and aircraft (usually termed Direct Voice Input).
This article is for those  who wants to make their mobile phones as their assistants. Others please excuse!!!
The following apps will make your mobile device as an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking…

Vlingo for Android, iPhone, Blackberry,Nokia and Windows Mobile

vlingo is a Virtual Assistant /  intelligent voice mobile app that turns your words into action by combining voice to text technology, natural language processing, and Vlingo’s Intent Engine. Simply speak to your phone to get just about anything done while on the go. Send text and email messages, search the web, use Google maps, update Twitter and more.
Vlingo is available on most BlackBerry phones, Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch, Android  2.0 or higher, Nokia phones and select Windows Mobile devices.

Siri for iPhone

siri_iconSiri on iPhone 4S lets you use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more. Ask Siri to do things just by talking the way you talk. Siri understands what you say, knows what you mean, and even talks back. Siri is so easy to use and does so much, you’ll keep finding more and more ways to use it.

Speaktoit Assistant for Android

speaktoit-assistant-logoSoon after the release of Siri, developers started introducing Siri’s rivals for Android in the market. Thats how Speaktoit Assistant got released. That was the first Siri alternative for Android.  The Assistant works with your smartphone to get maps, search for news and images, look up weather reports, convert currency and measurements, send email, and much more.


Iris for Android

iris-logoA team of android app developers from Dexetra.com built ‘Iris‘ – a Siri-alike app for android in just 8 hours during a hackathon. Iris android app allows you to search on various subjects including art, literature, history, and biology to general conversation.
It uses Android’s speech-to-text functions to understand basic questions.

 Jeannie for Android

Jeannie helps you to control your phone through speech commands. Jeannie, formerly Pannous Voice Actions for Android has always been a solid voice control utility for your Android phone and have the ability to set alarms and reminders, send emails, play music, tell jokes, look up the news, and search mages, videos, apps and places and much more.