What is your phone for you? An assistant or just a tool? Using the speech recognition service for mobile phone, you can make your mobile device as your assistant. We have already seen many voice recognition services /voice assistants like Vlingo, Siri, SpeaktoitAssistant, etc. One more app to add to the list of voice assistants.
Soon after the release of Siri in iPhone 4S, a team of folks from Dexetra.com built ‘Iris‘ – a Siri-alike app for android in just 8 hours during a hackathon. Iris android app allows you to search on various subjects including art, literature, history, and biology to general conversation.
You can ask it “What is a fish?” and it will reply with a paragraph from Wikipedia focusing on our finned friends. You can ask iris anything. She will talk to you on any topic.
It uses Android’s speech-to-text functions to understand basic questions.
You need to have “Voice Search” and “TTS library” installed in your phone for iris. to work. Most of the phones have these pre-installed, if not please install them from Android market before you try iris.
Features
- Call someone with Voice Actions
- Text someone with Voice Actions
- [advt]Search something (on the web) with Voice Actions
- Lookup for a contact
- Ice cream Sandwich Inspired UI
- New Design and new logo
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