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Siri shows up on an iPod Touch, no longer plays favorites in the iOS family

Ahmet — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:24:00 +0000

That Siri gal is certainly making the rounds these days. When she’s not answering your questions on a 4S, she’s showing up on iPads and elder iPhones. Not one to play favorites, Siri’s now lending her considerable talents to an iPod touch. Two enterprising young hackers, euwars and rud0lf77, are the ones who put Siri on the iPod, and you can see the results of their labor in the video after the break. Of course, Apple’s servers still aren’t as friendly as the virtual voice assistant, so Siri’s latest cameo remains a silent one — but some Siri’s better than none, right?

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Google expands Voice Actions across Europe, with multi-language support (video)

Ahmet — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:05:00 +0000

Android users across Europe are waking up to some bonnes nouvelles this morning, because Google has now expanded its Voice Actions service to France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. Beginning today, loquacious smartphone and tablet users will be able to place calls, send texts and conduct Google searches by speaking into their devices. All you have to do is press the microphone button on your home screen’s Google search field and open the Voice Search app, or simply press the physical search button on your handset to bring up the “Speak Now” field. From there, you can begin chattering away in French, German, Italian, Spanish and ~~real~~ British English. Interested parties running Android 2.2 or above can get started by downloading the Voice Search app from the source link below, or by checking out Google’s demo video, after the break.

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Apple patent application imagines iPhones that learn the sweet sound of your voice

Ahmet — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:38:00 +0000

Button-loathing Apple really wants people to stop dirtying its devices with sticky fingerprints. That’s why it’s applied for a patent that should improve the frustrating experience of using iOS’s voice control — precisely the kind of update we’ve been awaiting since Apple bought Siri last year. With the help of a technology billed as “User profiling for voice input processing,” your device would identify your voice, check against a library of words associated with you without having to trawl through its entire dictionary. We just hope Apple doesn’t do away with physical inputs entirely — we’d hate to broadcast to the world all the guilty pleasures we have loaded on our iPods.

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Ford bringing SYNC systems to base trim levels, drops from $395 to $295

Ahmet — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:01:00 +0000

Ford’s been pushing SYNC in its autos since 2007, but you wouldn’t have known it had you opted for the base trim level on your ride. Thankfully for those who appreciate the basics, that’s a-changing. The automaker is aiming to entice more potential owners by offering the voice-activated infotainment systems across all levels for $295 (down from $395, where optional), starting with its 2012 Edge and Explorer models. To sweeten the deal even further, it’ll also become standard on SEL variants for the first time — before, it was a luxury previously reserved for Limited and Sport. Ford plans to roll out the system across its entire lineup in three years time, bringing the 2013 Ford Taurus, Focus, Escape and Flex into the fold. You know, options for all of you who aren’t hip on the all-American, gas-guzzling SUV. Full PR past the break.

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Kinect integration in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, hands-off (video)

Ahmet — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:49:00 +0000

Microsoft’s E3 keynote may have exploded with deeper Kinect support, but nothing caught our eyes quite as sharply as Ghost Recon: Future Soldier’s rifle-exploding Gunsmith demo. A Ubisoft representative showed us how it’s done: separating your arms separates your deadly firearm into a gorgeous display of floating screws, components, and accessories, which can be effortlessly modified, swapped, and replaced with gesture and voice commands. Too picky to decide for yourself? Then don’t: just tell Gunsmith what you’re looking for. For instance, saying “Optimize for range” produces a weapon any sniper should be proud of — even better, we found that commanding Gunsmith to “optimize for awesome” birthed a rifle (pictured above) sporting an underbarrel shotgun attachment. A gun attached to a gun? Yeah, that works. Weapons can be tested in Gunsmith’s gesture-controlled firing range, an engaging shooting mode exclusive to the Gunsmith weapon editor and not usable in regular gameplay. Head past the break for a hands-on (figuratively speaking) video.

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Vlingo InCar — a complete hands free solution for Android

Ahmet — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:49:48 +0000

The Vlingo Corp has announced that Vlingo InCar beta is now available for users on the Sprint network. I don’t even try to hide the fact that I love Vlingo, out of all the voice command/control applications available, it’s the only one that works for me. Now with the InCar beta, I can have the same control over my Evo using my voice, without hitting any icons or buttons. Once you start the new InCar beta version of Vlingo, you can enter complete hands free mode by pressing the Wake-up Command button, then say "Hey Vlingo" to start entering my voice commands. Awesome.

Worth a note here — the new beta of Vlingo InCar is only available on the Market for Sprint subscribers for now, but Vlingo encourages folks on other carriers to go here and express interest in Vlingo InCar beta on their network. Let’s all do that m’kay? There’s a video, the full press release and some more screenshots after the break. [Vlingo]

Posted originally at Android Central

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Vlingo for Android updated to include ‘SuperDialer’ — Super, indeed!

Ahmet — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:03:52 +0000

Vlingo has updated its popular Android application, and a new feature called SuperDialer makes a great app even better. What SuperDialer does is allow you to make calls, or searches, or get directions based on what you are looking for, not what’s in your address book. Growing up, I had dreams about how mobile computing would be in the 21st century. While we’re not quite where I had hoped, and I’m not working for Spacely Sprockets, this is a push in the right direction. We’ve got a video, some screenies of my own ~~playing around~~ useful testing, and a press release after the break.

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Control apps by voice? Ford does (or will in 2011)

Ahmet — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:09:06 +0000

Welcome to the future, citizen (pro tip: pass on the soylent green). Ford recently announced that it’s 2011 Fiesta will launch with SYNC AppLink. I’m just going to let you read it in their own words here -

Ford will first offer SYNC® AppLink, a downloadable software program, on the 2011 Fiesta, allowing owners to access and control Android™ and BlackBerry® smartphone apps with voice commands and vehicle controls

Voice control your apps via bluetooth. BOO-YAH.

Pandora, Stitcher and OpenBeak are the first SYNC-enabled apps, but Ford has already set up a developers site (SYNCmyride) so it looks like they mean business. Now who will be the first to develop a dialer app to fill that painful gap for lucky Ford drivers?

Follow the break for the full presser. [via PR Newswire]