Fonix iSpeak English is one of the five versions of Fonix iSpeak. . .it also comes in French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian. And is a fully featured hands-free voice dialing application for your iPhone(both 2G and 3G).
I say hands-free, but you do have to launch the application. . .and sadly there is no bluetooth support right now. This isn’t because the developers didn’t include it, but because Apple doesn’t allow it(yet).
Once you open the application it loads up your contacts, then just by saying ‘Call [name]‘ and it will call that person. If you want to specify a number(mobile, work, home), you can say that after saying their name. You can also say ‘Dial [number]‘ and it will call the number, or ‘redial last number’ or just quit(to exit the application hands-free). I think if Apple ever allows you to specify an application to open by double clicking the home button, setting it to this would be perfect for making calls in the car(especially when bluetooth gets included).
I tested this with all of the contacts in my list. While that list isn’t huge(like 5 or 6 entries), it did contain both names and words(I use ‘Marker’ for a test contact). Voice Recognition software isn’t perfect, but it can be very accurate. After using this for 20 minutes, it only got confused a couple times.
Note – Be sure to wait until the microphone turns red before you tell it what to do.
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