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Voice Text turns your speech into text in Android apps
July 29, 2009 | by Andrew Kameka
Android Tutorials, Commmunication
A group of United States senators are in a tiffy about drivers who send text messages while driving. They say it leads to driver distraction and traffic accidents, which has inevitably led to lawmakers working to ban texting-while-driving. Save these distinguished gentlemen the trouble and just use the Voice Text Android application.
Voice Text turns any Android device into a dictation machine using Android’s voice recognition software. The main portion of the app transcribes short messages into text for almost-eye-free texting. Speak into the phone and your comments will be converted into an SMS message.
Oh, and did I mention that it works Android-wide? Voice Text will turn your words into text in Gmail, notepads, Twitter apps, and practically any app that accepts an input method.
I don’t want to oversell Voice Text’s virtues because you will experience errors and there is a learning curve in getting your point across for transcribing. However, Voice Text’s usefulness increases with a little practice. The app enables users to make eyes-free communication in various apps and will probably be useful to slow-typing Android supporters or drivers who need to communicate.
Again, there will be errors, but the app comes with tips to improve accuracy. Enunciation and pace are a must! Also be conscious that some myTouch 3g users report being unable to use the app. Try out Voice Text to see if it’s worth using.
App: Voice Text
Price: $1.29
Website: http://voicetext.blogspot.com
How to Set-Up Voice Text in Other Android Apps
- Press Menu > Settings > “Locale & text”
- Check the “Voice Text” button to enable the app
- Open an Android app and long press on the input field (where you usually enter text)
- Press “Input Method” and select “Voice Text”
- Tap the input field once more and press “Start” to begin
- Record your message and press back once you are satisfied with transcription
- Tap the Input field, tap your text and complete your message
Where is the QR code for this App?… slackers… heh
Updated.
Doesn't seem to be in the UK market yet.
same query as above, just got G2 can't find Voice Text in the marketplace or anywhere is it available in uk and do you have link?
this app says it doesnt work for the htc hero for sprint but it does i downloaded it and it works fine fyi to all htc heroers lol
Just got a HTC hero. Where did you locate voice talk? [email protected]
Just checking that it will work on Sprints HTC Hero?? Because it still warns before download that it will not work with Hero
I can't find it on my Droid either.
I can't find it on my Droid either. Is there another app that does the same thing?
Any idea when its coming to MyTouch?
It's not going to come to the old MyTouch…verified it with Tmobile yesterday but the new My Touchs will have it.
do a search in the market for voice text it will bring up some apps for text to speech and there free I spent an entire day looking around and finally stumbled on them, I haven't tried them out yet but there are a couple different ones. 1 of them looks to be specifically for the droid, it has the little character so good luck hope this helps…
To add to my last message. The apps are called "VoiceLink free" "TopVoiceControl" there might be more but again just do a search in the Market for "Voice Text" with the space between the words and it will bring up the apps at the top again good luck and hope this helps.
none of these apps look like they can change the O/S so that there are is a google voice input method for any/every application – can't find 'voice text' either in the US on the android market ;-(… Perhaps this was pulled because google's servers aren't yet ready to handle the processing volume (isn't that where the real translation takes place)?
strange, same problem. anyone have a solution?
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Why doesn't Voice Text work on the Moment. Do i need tyo download another program to make it work? is there a problem with the Moment and voice recognition software?
Yeah, seriously, I just bought the moment, and am pissed because it doesnt work with the moment??
it says it needs Android 2.0. MyTouch has yet to get that…
my new software updated and i downloaded the text-to-speech app but it is still allowing me to use the app and saying i need to install a voice data
I am also having the same issue. When I try to install, the button for installing the software is not highlighted so therefore, it cannot be pressed. What UP? I cruised for some text to speech apps but none of them work on the moment. Whoever wrote this article doesnt know what the hell they are talking about.
update your moment to the new firmware…mine came with 1.5 and it would not work….updated firmware and it works perfect!!!!!!!!!!
Woo! ShoutOUT was free and works like a charm. A Lucky Charm! hahahaha!!!!!
The voice to text in my 2.1 version for the Hero said it wouldn't work. They forgot the microphone icon on the keyboard. So, there.
What is the advantage of this app over the built in Google Voice?
Does anyone know if this will work on the new Samsung Vibrant. I was told that it would but want to check before getting the phone.
I love my google voice as well a swype but I have one really dumb question… I absolutely cannot handle that when I say my daughter’s name (katy) it transcribes as “katie.” is there a user dictionary somewhere within google voice? I can’t find it anywhere.
Are you really serious ?????? My God woman ! …
Voice 'recog' being what it is.. don't you think you're being pretty anal about that particular issue? Geese!!! How petty can u get ?! Tell Katy to deal with it.
Its probably because the name Katy is supposed to be spelled at Katie, just as stefany is Stephanie. This app might not be as useful for the current generation with misspelled 80 names. I guess it just doesn't value their, "unique" name.
I want to develop a similar app and want to know where to go to get help. I am not really a programmer. I am studying jave but I am really new at it.
does the voice to text app work with a damsung transform? if so, does it cost to have it?
sorry about the spelling, i meant samsung !