By: Aseem Gaurav, May 8, 2011
Vlingo is one of the best voice apps available in the market that is sure to get you hooked with its impressive features and abilities. Vlingo uses voice recognition for emailing and texting and thus offers a great alternative to typing. Vlingo Virtual Assistant converts your speech into text and uses voice commands to perform specific tasks, so that you can quickly and easily get things done when you’re on the go.
You can use Vlingo to give a number of spoken commands to open apps, search the Internet, email contacts, and use social networks like Facebook and Twitter. What will impress you the most is Vlingo’s SafeReader feature, which gives you more “hands-free” control of your smartphone. SafeReader, a free feature gives drivers with a safer, easier way to consume incoming text and email messages. SafeReader reads messages and even emails aloud so you can focus entirely on your driving. However, there is a 50 character limit and after that the message is truncated.
Giving commands to Vlingo is also quite simple. All you have to do it hit the “tap and speak” button with the app and give commands like ‘Call Sarah mobile’ or ‘search New York hotels.’ The search results are generally accurate. You can also search for bars, food centers and even for directions. And if you want to use punctuations in your search then speak like this “Where are you going question mark” and Vlingo will get it right. But if in case Vlingo gets it wrong (a rarity) then use Vlingo’s keyboard to place the missives.
Overall, it is an extremely impressive app that will do more right than wrong. You’ll love it’s easy to use interface along with some great features! The only negative is that it starts up background processes by itself, at random times, and starts consuming the battery. Vlingo is surely a big productivity boost app, especially at times when typing is inconvenient or slow.
Features:
Send text and email messages using your voice
Search the web using "Google or Yahoo"
Dial your Contacts
Update your Twitter Status
Open built-in and most third-party applications
Find locations and business using Google Maps
Speak into any application that requires keyboard assistance input
SafeReader - Hear your incoming text & email messages while Drive.
