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yh125d

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seemed to work well. "Set an alarm for 7 AM", "Call Doug" worked, "send text ________" opened up a new message with whatever I said to just enter recipient and send.

"whats the weather tomorrow" worked but not "will I need an umbrella tomorrow?"

"tell me about cocaine" did a quick wiki search, neat

"How do I get to (city)" brought up Maps

On initial look seems alright.

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"tell my brother thank you" returns "I dont store that kind of information but if you want me to memorize it I will get this skill soon" so I guess that will be coming in an update


"search market for angry birds" stops at just opening the market


Some nice functionality, but siri seems to be several steps ahead (though I havent used it myself yet)
 
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poofyhairguy

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I love the "Last 30 days" graph:

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yh125d said:
seemed to work well. "Set an alarm for 7 AM", "Call Doug" worked, "send text ________" opened up a new message with whatever I said to just enter recipient and send. . . . On initial look seems alright.
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That's nice and all, but can it open the pod bay doors? :D
 
QueBert

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Comparing this to Siri's like comparing a PS2 to an Xbox 360. They both do similar things, but this doesn't doesn't have the AI learning that Siri does. Which really is what makes Siri Siri. I will say it's worlds better than Vlingo, but it shouldn't be compared to Siri yet imho.
 
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obidamnkenobi

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Is this, or the other voice control apps, able to send message/start navigation etc via voice? The video I saw of google voice control it looked like you had to tap the button to send the message you just transcribed. And in the screenshots of vlingo it has a "send" button under the SMS message. You can't just say send? Seems dumb since I'd mainly want to use this in the car..
 
Red Storm

Red Storm

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FYI you don't need this to set alarms. Google's Voice Search can set alarms with "Set alarm at..." and/or variants like "Wake me up in an hour".

Will check it out, thanks OP.

obidamnkenobi said:
Is this, or the other voice control apps, able to send message/start navigation etc via voice? The video I saw of google voice control it looked like you had to tap the button to send the message you just transcribed. And in the screenshots of vlingo it has a "send" button under the SMS message. You can't just say send? Seems dumb since I'd mainly want to use this in the car..
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Pretty sure in Vlingo you can also say "send" and it will send.
 
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saratoga172

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Played with it a bit last night. Best voice control i've used on Android but it does have some things missing compared to siri.

It couldn't figure out correct texting. Or maybe I just don't have it down. The lookup features are really cool. Maps seems to works ok from it.

Overall could just use some work buy pretty good for a free app. I'll keep using it and hope there are updates.
 
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obidamnkenobi said:
Is this, or the other voice control apps, able to send message/start navigation etc via voice? The video I saw of google voice control it looked like you had to tap the button to send the message you just transcribed. And in the screenshots of vlingo it has a "send" button under the SMS message. You can't just say send? Seems dumb since I'd mainly want to use this in the car..
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standard google voice search supports "navigate to <address>" perfectly (without additional taps)

sending a message requires a tap to send, presumably to confirm that the recipient and message it recognized were correct
 
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QueBert said:
Comparing this to Siri's like comparing a PS2 to an Xbox 360. They both do similar things, but this doesn't doesn't have the AI learning that Siri does. Which really is what makes Siri Siri. I will say it's worlds better than Vlingo, but it shouldn't be compared to Siri yet imho.
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Hahah, really? So now suddenly the similar voice command capabilities are nothing important, and it's the fluff like "AI learning" that people should care about? Admit it, it was only a matter of time before Android had every capability Apple did and more. That it took so little time is even more impressive. That PS2 vs 360 is a flawed strawman analogy.
 
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dguy6789

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Yup, Google's voice search does a large number of the commands Siri does(Set Alarm, Send Text, Send Email, Navigate to, Directions To, Call so and so, How old is Eric Clapton, math problems, Define "word"). It just doesn't do the humor or the super obscure stuff.
 
Dulanic

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dguy6789 said:
Yup, Google's voice search does a large number of the commands Siri does(Set Alarm, Send Text, Send Email, Navigate to, Directions To, Call so and so, How old is Eric Clapton, math problems, Define "word"). It just doesn't do the humor or the super obscure stuff.
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Yeah really google voice could do this before, it just adds the little things like Siri where you can say "Wake me up at 6AM" and it knows instead of saying Set Alarm. So I think where Siri, Iris and this have an edge is purely from the commical standpoint IMO.
 
Red Storm

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Dulanic said:
Yeah really google voice could do this before, it just adds the little things like Siri where you can say "Wake me up at 6AM" and it knows instead of saying Set Alarm. So I think where Siri, Iris and this have an edge is purely from the commical standpoint IMO.
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Read my earlier post. Google Voice Search already does this. I just tried it on my OG Droid by saying "Wake me up in 2 hours" and it set an alarm for 2 hours from now.
 
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Munky said:
Hahah, really? So now suddenly the similar voice command capabilities are nothing important, and it's the fluff like "AI learning" that people should care about? Admit it, it was only a matter of time before Android had every capability Apple did and more. That it took so little time is even more impressive. That PS2 vs 360 is a flawed strawman analogy.
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Well this actually been out for android for a lil bit. IIRC it predates siri.
 
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obidamnkenobi said:
Is this, or the other voice control apps, able to send message/start navigation etc via voice? The video I saw of google voice control it looked like you had to tap the button to send the message you just transcribed. And in the screenshots of vlingo it has a "send" button under the SMS message. You can't just say send? Seems dumb since I'd mainly want to use this in the car..
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WP7 Mango does, all via voice! Perfectly! :biggrin:
 
QueBert

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Munky said:
Hahah, really? So now suddenly the similar voice command capabilities are nothing important, and it's the fluff like "AI learning" that people should care about? Admit it, it was only a matter of time before Android had every capability Apple did and more. That it took so little time is even more impressive. That PS2 vs 360 is a flawed strawman analogy.
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Fluff? Siri works A LOT better, I spent about an hour getting frustrated with Speaktoit today

"add note, buy Rib-Eye steak at store" - me
"I can add it to my memory, or use Evernote to store it online, tell me which you'd like me to use" - stupid program
"store in memory"
"sorry"
"use memory"
"I don't know what that is yet, but I'm learning new things all the time"
"memory"

of course between each "memory" response from me I had start over telling it I wanted to add a note again, because apparently it instantly forgets what you're trying to do once it hears a command it doesn't understand. Mind you the answer I was giving it was a direct response to a question it was asking Any ways I repeated that process about 60 times. The responses from it varied, but no matter how I worded it it didn't understand that I wanted to save my notes to the phones memory. I didn't want to, but I finally gave up on it until about an hour ago, I decided what the hell and tried it again. I opened the app and instantly it said there was a problem and it had notified the developers. I rebooted my phone and it still won't get past the "problem" screen, when I click on the avatar to activate the voice recognition it just gives me an error beep. On top of that no matter how the developers try to spin it, this program doesn't have AI, it still doesn't understand a text from my GF is from my GF, and it doesn't follow what I'm saying like Siri does. This program's more comparable to Vlingo imho, it's worlds better, but it's along the same lines. I'm not going to give the app credit for shit the developers are working on implementing. It's buggy as hell and doesn't do a good job at figuring anything out *shrug*

For basic voice recognition it's outstanding, but it's absolute shit compared to Siri, and as far as I know this app's been around for a good while. So it's not like I'm expecting a brand new app to perform flawlessly.
 
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Red Storm

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As far as I know, Vlingo's car mode is the only one that can be activated and used completely hands free. You just turn on the car mode, and from then on you can activate the mic when you actually need it by saying "Hey Vlingo" and then tell it your command ("Find/navigate to X", etc.). Every voice control app needs this basic functionality to be considered hands free IMHO.
 
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