There are several Siri wannabe options. Skyvi is probably your best bet at actually getting something done, but since it runs in the background it’ll probably eat your battery for breakfast. I should probably do more testing before making that statement but I just don’t like this type of app. The Speaktoit Assistant comes in [...]

If you happen to be one of the billions of people whose speech contains any accents, then you have pretty much been out of luck trying to use Google Voice Actions. Same goes for anyone that might happen to only speak a language other than English. One of the downsides to loving a U.S. based [...]

I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I haven’t used much of the voice recognition options built into my device because it doesn’t ever understand me. It drives me absolutely crazy. It is expected that this latest software addition, over time, will start to adapt to your speech patterns and become more accurate [...]

Hot off the massive two days of news, the updates are coming fast and furious.  Every time that a new SDK drops there is a slew of updated apps.  This time is no different.  The two Google updates tonight are Voice Search and YouTube (for Froyo Android 2.2 and higher). YouTube YouTube now is allowing [...]

Good news for those of you who speak a different language that were previously unable to take advantage of Google’s Voice Search application on your Android 2.2 device as Google Voice Search has received an update adding support for the following languages: Russian Czech Polish Turkish How many of our readers have been waiting for this language [...]

Shortly after Google announced their new Voice Search application with Voice Actions for Android, Vlingo announced they were dropping the price on their voice command app from $9.99 to free.  Well, you just can’t beat free, so I decided to give both apps a try and see if one really shined above the other. Google [...]