Comments on: Voice Recognition Debuts on the Palm OS

A number of new Voice control applications have recently been developed for the palmOne Treo smartphone series and certain Palm OS 5 handhelds with microphones. These new apps offer voice dialing of contacts and voice control of many common PDA functions.
Return to Story - Permalink

Article Comments

 (20 comments)

The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. PalmInfocenter is not responsible for them in any way.
Please Login or register here to add your comments.

Comments Closed Comments Closed
This article is no longer accepting new comments.

Down

Voice commands

tooele @ 11/11/2004 7:33:34 PM #
Nice idea hopefully it works well it would be better if it was a free update from palmone.

Tungsten T3 + T610
RE: Voice commands
Hal2000 @ 11/11/2004 8:11:29 PM #
If the T5 had a mike, you would have to say please after each command.

Zodiac2/T616
2.128 gigs under the hood.
RE: Voice commands
tooele @ 11/11/2004 9:16:38 PM #
I forgot the T5 didn't have a microphone another cool feature that it doesn't have and the T3 does.

Tungsten T3 + T610
RE: Voice commands
LiveFaith @ 11/12/2004 9:29:17 AM #
Yeah, but PalmOne is already throwing in a free hardcase only 4 weeks after release. Should get down to it sub-$299 market value soon.

Pat Horne; www.churchoflivingfaith.com
RE: Voice commands
tthiel @ 11/12/2004 10:36:12 AM #
$299 is $50 too high.

RE: Voice commands
Calroth @ 11/14/2004 5:15:07 PM #
"$299 is $50 too high."

That doesn't mean much. No matter what price it is, someone will say that it is $50 too high. Even if it is $50.

There's also Dragon NS

otter @ 11/12/2004 1:25:22 AM #
The newest release of Dragon NaturallySpeaking (ver. 8) supposedly has support for Palm devices.

We shall see. I haven't seen it in retail yet, but apparently it's out already.

RE: There's also Dragon NS
otter @ 11/12/2004 1:28:38 AM #
Yeah, so it's not technically Voice "Recognition," but close enough for government work... and PalmOne.

Hardly...

just_little_me @ 11/12/2004 1:55:33 AM #
Have all these guys just now figured out how to do Fast-Fourier Transforms...?


JLM.

RE: Hardly...
ackmondual @ 11/12/2004 3:46:49 AM #
about high damn time. I figured PPC would beat Palm in implemnting this feature (i saw a box for the software at a local Circuit City or Staples for about $15, unless i've mistakened it for someth else and it's actually $40!). I'm just glad Palm finally got on the road here. Hope it works well.

[signature0]the secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse[/signature0]
[signature1]My PDAs: Visor --> Visor Neo (blue) --> Zire 71.... so ends the "marathon", for now[/signature1]
RE: Hardly...
JonathanChoo @ 11/12/2004 6:21:15 AM #
Should be Microsoft Voice Command if its for US$40 or Fonix Voice Central 2 (US$30).

I have tried both and even though its good its more of a gimmick. You still can't reply to e-mails or type text via real time voice.

Generic PDA > 5mx > Vx > m505 > N770C > T625C > NR70V > e310 > m550 > h2210 > T/T3 & h4150
StarTac > T28m > T39m > T68m > T610 > T630 > K700i

RE: Hardly...
RhinoSteve @ 11/12/2004 2:34:17 PM #
Voice recognition has always been a speciality market. "Dictate e-mail?" You are not going to see that for a long, long time. FFTs? Well that is only 5% of a good speech recognition routine. The rest is a art of building a weighted statistical phonome database.

Voice rec. in this market is to get sales and press. Rarely does someone put it to regular use. However, nice move to get it in on the 650 and not a dedicated piece of hardware.


RE: Hardly...
Altema @ 11/13/2004 2:04:13 AM #
Don't know about you, but I've been looking for a way to launch apps and do system commands without looking or tapping. Seems to work well on the T3, and has functions like fetch mail, menu, and you can set an exit command that activates the launcher. Only downside is that fetching email seems to do a direct app call which does not allow BlueFang to automatically turn the radio on. Now if only it could do strings...

Regardless, I'm buyin' this one.

RE: Hardly...
RhinoSteve @ 11/16/2004 2:17:05 PM #
And do you want it delivered by Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny?
RE: Hardly...
Altema @ 11/16/2004 6:21:25 PM #
esellerate delivered just fine...

Voice Commander err

StatCoder.com @ 11/13/2004 12:30:56 PM #
Voice Commander gave me only errors when I tried to record a command on my Clie TH-55
RE: Voice Commander err
Strider_mt2k @ 11/13/2004 3:44:49 PM #
Mine too.



RE: Voice Commander err
Strider_mt2k @ 11/14/2004 6:37:10 AM #
When I contacted Toysoft, the reply was, "Then it doesn't work on the Sony. Does it use os 5.2.1?"

"It does indeed." was my response to them.

I'm not impressed.

RE: Voice Commander err
Strider_mt2k @ 11/14/2004 6:58:27 PM #
Okay! I take it back.
Toysoft got back to me with something to try:

I was asked to DL and try another app of Toysoft's called "Personal Audio Recorder" to see if IT would work. Unfortunately it doesn't, but that leads them to believe that it's a problem with a lib file.

Not being a developer, I relayed my error code to them, and we'll hope for the best.

It's a bummer that it doesn't work yet, but the responses from Toysoft make me think they might be able to address the issue.

Our THs are a breed apart and this is the downside unfortunately.

RE: Voice Commander err
Strider_mt2k @ 11/15/2004 12:08:03 PM #
Latest from Toysoft support:

"that is the problem then. the TH55 probably dont have the standard PalmOS sound manager."

bummer

Top

Account

Register Register | Login Log in
user:
pass: