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Siri App for Android Phone Siri app for android phone Continue If you watched last week's iPhone 4S ad from your Android phone and went a little green with envy when Siri, iOS's new voice-recognition personal assistant, was announced and demoted on stage, shake up. You have a lot of great voice recognition apps to choose from on Android that can help you keep up with friends, search the weather, find local businesses, and more. Here's a look at your options. If you haven't looked into voice recognition apps on Android before, you may be wondering how many apps get the job done. None of the apps currently available for Android are as well integrated with OS as Siri with iOS (sorry), but some are closer than others, and you can bet that they will all be updated and improved now that Siri is available for iOS. Best of all, they're all free. The one you already have: Google Voice ActionsIf you have an Android phone, you already have Google Voice Actions for Android installed. When everyone got their first look at Siri on the iPhone 4S, most people jumped at the assumption that Siri was just the voice of action for iOS. It's not - Siri does more than Voie Actions, but Voice Actions is the closest that Android users have to a voice assistant. Pros: Voice action can control a large swath of Android features. You can post phone calls, listen to music by the name of a track, artist, or album, send SMS or emails, get driving and step-by-step navigation, search the web, and more. If you're smart, you can get information like weather, word definitions, maps and information about local businesses, and more simply using voice action wisely. For example, click the Voice Action icon and say weather in Washington, D.C., Voice Search will do a Google search for it, and Google's mobile page will give you an interactive weather forecast display. Cons: The problem with voice action is that it's only well integrated with the basic android features. You won't be able to schedule calendar meetings, schedule meetings with other people, update Twitter or Facebook, or issue complex commands that require you to share information on any app other than Google Search. Also, you need to actually press the voice search icon (or long search key) every time you want to issue a request, making it less ideal for a hands-free situation, such as when you're driving. Finally, Voice Search is a simple command-and-response application because you speak on command and respond to everything it has. If that's not right, you re-publishing the team, starting over. There's no back and forth with voice actions.The Most Hands-Free: VlingoVlingo has been around for a long time much longer than voice control was in style on smartphones. Vlingo has texting to speech and speech to customers' speech for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Nokia and Windows Windows and while none of them has particularly deep integration with their respective operating system, the app goes beyond the mainstream applications and is closest to minding the back and forth with the advanced commands that Siri offers. Pros: Vlingo allows you to do all the basics: you can send SMS messages and emails, post phone calls, and search the web. You can also look for local businesses and restaurants using natural language, so talk to find pizza will look for local pizza delivery restaurants. Talking taxi will be looking for the nearest taxi company. You can also run apps through Vlingo by saying their name, or update Facebook and Twitter through the app. This speech engine is good, and unlike voice actions, it rarely misinterpreted my contact names or spoken words. The developers behind Vlingo have even tossed in some tie-in in other apps: if you say find hotels in New York City, the app will ask you if you want to install Kayak or if you just want to search the web. Say: Buy movie tickets for Real Steel in Washington, the app will open the default browser, go to Fandango, bring up a page for Real Steel, and offer me showtimes in nearby cinemas. Finally, the strongest Vlingo costume is that you can tell him to start listening as soon as you open the app, and when you enter Vlingo's car mode, you can say: Hey, Vlingo, out loud, and the app will take commands. It's the depth of Vlingo features and its ability to have a back-and-forth conversation with you that make it the closest Android users need to Siri. Check out this video to see Vlingo in action. Cons: The only real problem with Vlingo is that too many of its commands shunt you into other apps that don't have voice activation features. When you use mode in the car, Vlingo will ask you if you want to leave Vlingo to open the browser or other application to complete the action, but it does not allow you to say yes or no from that screen and you have to touch the screen either go ahead or cancel the operation. The same applies to a number of other Vlingo features as well. Saying check in China's garden simply opens Foursquare and does a search for China Garden, which saves time, but falls just a little short. Also, if you get lost too far from any of Vlingo's known search and command terms, you'll confuse it and it will shunt you onto a web search. This is normal in some cases, but the fact that you can't just ask what the weather is without making Google search a little disappointing. Vlingo is great, but the most frustrating thing about the app is that it seems to go so far, only to stop lacking perfection. The Most EdwinEdwin is a utility that we've reviewed before, and while it lacks the bells and whistles of its competition, it adds voice response and speech to the speech in Google's native action voice. It also allows you to Voice commands are a little more conversational. Most of its commands are sent to Google Voice Actions, where they run or the results speak back to you. Android: Straight out of the box Android phones sport some impressive voice team tools. If you... Read more: Edwin's strength in how to talk app. If he has a straight answer, he will say it out loud. Ask: What is the weather in Washington, and the app will react aloud with current conditions. Ask about another city and the app will search for it and respond there as well. You can even ask the app Where I Am and it will respond right down to your number block. The app has a big button you press once to make the app start listening. Best of all, if he understands, he will react. If the app needs to do a web search or open an app, it tells you to choose an app, or it will go to the browser and search. Cons: The big problem with Edwin is that he doesn't have a rich list of teams of his own, and when he doesn't understand something, he suffers the same problem Voice Action does: he just fails. The app also has a hard time processing some commands such as navigation and SMS messages - it will understand what you want to navigate and it will understand that you want to send an SMS message, but it will not pick up where you want to go or who you want to send a message to. The app definitely needs some improvements, and when testing, I encountered a number of bugs and bugs. In some cases Edwin forgot my location and couldn't get weather information, while in others he stopped being able to get weather information completely. Your mileage with Edwin may vary, but at least he will talk to you. Most flexible: SpeakToIt AssistantSpeakToIt Assistant is a relatively new speech and speech assistant in the Android market. The app prides itself on being customizable, and for giving you a cartoon avatar that you can customize and customize to be your personal assistant. (If you don't like the default sexy librarian, you have an absurd number of options for tweaking your assistant with a number of other cartoon fantasy options.) The app has some back-and-forth conversational ability and it definitely recognizes a wide range of phrases and commands. SpeakToIt developers claim that it is always learning and they are working to give the app more commands to which it can respond directly with each update. Pros: SpeakToIt definitely understands everything that the voice of action understands and then some of them. You can ask him to find stock information for you, what weather is in a distant place, send an email or SMS, update social networks, register in place Foursquare, and more. The app can also place items in your Evernote account and it welcomes you, sometimes with your name after you are told aloud when you open the app. Unlike some other apps, you can make your assistant male or female, customize their appearance, and change your voice, albeit slightly. It wins for being the most customizable, and the app with the largest library in the commands app and end-to-end terms. It is clear that SpeakToIt developers want you to be able to get as much information inside the app as possible before shunting into another app or Google search.
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