First Look: Vocalia English speech recognition tool for iPhone

Vocalia crashes for me every time. I confirmed with their customer support that this is because I have >1,000 contacts. They claim in 2-3 weeks a new version should resolve the problem, we'll see ... but if you have alot of contacts, just realize that Vocalia is not going to work for you.

The big question for people who have bought this app: can you speak through your Bluetooth headset to have it do voice recog?

I wouldn't trust a program which looks almost identical to HAL. Then again, it might stop you from making drunken phone calls, which would probably be a good thing. I just hope it cant lip read.

WOW YTOU Tested this with 100 names? That's Dedicatione!!!!

I bought this app and it works as advertised. When you launch the application it takes a little while to initialize, but after it does it recognizes the names in my address book without flaws.

It would be nice to have more voice activated commands like "dial/call/email" as it would avoid having to tap the contact to place a call/email.

I agree with the other poster that this feature would be nicer if it was integrated into the OS, allowing you to use the phone without having to look at it.

That's Giuseppe!

Please get it right next time.

It seems like voice dialing is something that ideally Apple would add, since for a third-party app you still have to manually launch the app. If you're wearing your iPhone headphones or using a bluetooth headset, that still means taking the phone out of your pocket, unlocking it and launching the app...not exactly the ideal hands-free experience while driving, carrying things, or otherwise trying to make a call without needing to look at/touch your phone.