Root Speech - to - text ???

[notaguru]

Eris - rooted - KaosFroyo v37 - stable as Gibraltar...

But when I wish to draft a text message, I type in each and every character, every word. Sometimes at 80mph that's a bit iffy, and always it's a pain.

Today a friend said there should be a speech-to-text application that accurately does that job. If so, I'll be both happy and embarrassed.

What have I been missing?

 

[Jrocker23]

Vlingo has been really good to me and its free in the markey. try it out

 

[rlw6926]

Vlingo is an amazing app. I tried ShoutOUt first and it didn't get the speech exactly right and I was fixing all my texts. This one is pretty dead on.

 

[spikeithard]

+ 1 vlingo

 

[royalewihcheese]

Unless I'm just misunderstanding something, there's also the Voice Search. I use it all the time for texts.

long press the Search key and say

"Send text to That Person: Hey comma what are you doing question mark"

It asks for confirmation to send: "Hey, what are you doing?" to That Person. The trickiest thing is to not pause until you're done rolling out the text.

 

[notaguru]

Unless I'm just misunderstanding something, there's also the Voice Search. I use it all the time for texts.

long press the Search key and say

I've tried this but with no result with Nonsensikal 16.1. What have I missed? is there another app to be installed?

 

[erisuser1]

I've tried this but with no result with Nonsensikal 16.1. What have I missed? is there another app to be installed?

As far as I know, you only need to have "Voice Search", Google Inc. installed from the market. (Note that this has nothing to do with "Google Voice").

You've seen this Google vid ..., right?

I like the promise of Vlingo - it is much, much more hands free than Google "Voice Search", but when it mis-translates something, you don't have an option to manually edit the result as you do with with Google Voice Search. In my vehicle I seem to get plenty of garbled speech captures (with both of them), even when I attempt to speak slowly and clearly - probably an ambient noise issue.

Perhaps that is intentional feature of Vlingo - staring at a 3-inch screen while hurtling down the road at 80 mph is not a wise thing to be doing in the first place, and it's whole point is to do things hands-free. (Plus, Vlingo can read texts to you automatically as they come in with the "safe reader" feature.)