MobileSpeech 1.0 for Windows Mobile Smartphone

[Jerry Raia]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.lab9solutions.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.lab9solutions.com/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Lab9 Solutions Inc. announced today the general availability of MobileSpeech 1.0 for WinCE SmartPhones and Pocket PC's. MobileSpeech is the first in a series of Integrated, Speech Activated Services providing Contact and Digit Dialing, Application Launching, and Contact Lookups, featuring innovative hands-free and eyes-free operation that users can customize to their skill and experience level. MobileSpeech is easy to use for beginners and powerfully efficient for experienced users. This is accomplished through Lab9 Solutions's unique Fluent Operating Style, which permits users to say single command phrases for operations, instead of being forced to follow more traditional menu navigation styles."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Jerry-Speech.gif" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/><br /><br />Did anyone ever try Voice Command from Microsoft? I did a while back and it actually worked pretty well on a Pocket PC. Here is another developers attempt at voice commands and it will run on a Smartphone as well. There is a trial version available too.

[mikestew]

I had VC running on an Audiovox SMT5600, though it is only supposed to run on PPC. Slow, consumed huge amounts of memory, and recognition reliability was only so-so.

MobileSpeak is faster, doesn't hog memory, but recognition isn't much of an improvement over VC. With a BT headset, I'm getting it to recognize about 50-70%. What's worse, is that 50% of the time the "launch" command will launch the wrong program.

I've simply gone back to using the Voice Tag feature on the 'vox. Accomplishes the same task, and is pretty solid on its recognition (or to put it more accurately, its matching).