Voice dialer for iPhone, Vocalia, adds French support
updated 07:00 pm EST, Mon November 17, 2008
Vocaia v1.2 ships
Creaceed has released Vocalia 1.2, adding french language support to the iPhone voice recognition dialing app. The update adds both French interface localization and a French phonetizer and acoustic model. Vocalia also works 10 times as fast at phonetizing and has a vibrating alert when it is ready to talk. Users access Address Book contacts, up to 5000 supported, by speaking to the software. It recognizes the name and brings up a list of close matches, allowing the user to pick the contact from the short list and place a call.
Vocalia supports vocal shortcuts (best friend, mom, dad, etc.), can show up to ten results for a vocalized name and supports shaking to reset and try again. The software runs entirely on the iPhone; it does not call or link back to an external server or upload personal information to a third party.
The app is available now for the iPhone on the iTunes App store. It is on sale for half-off, at $4, until November 24th to celebrate the French localization update. After the sale it will cost $8.
