Creaceed  a Belgium based Apple developer released their first iPhone application called Vocalia in the App Store.  Vocalia offers Speech recognition running directly on your iPhone. Vocalia, their English speech recognition tool for iPhone can find Relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbours, or even restaurants easy by just saying the name.

How does Vocalia work?

1. Click Vocalia’s icon to make “Vocalia’s Eye” appear.

2. Speak the name (or the byname) of your contact.

3. Vocalia selects in your address book the contact names close to what you pronounced.

4. Click the contact you want to call or to write to.

Key features

Vocalia…

• Uses Julius engine for multi-locutor, speech recognition (English only at this time)

• Runs entirely on iPhone, works without network connection

• No “Tap to speak”

• Provides default working phonemic transcriptions for all your contacts

• Shows up to 10 recognized names

• Displays visual effects responding to sound and gravity (a.k.a “Vocalia’s Eye”).

With Vocalia, you can…

• Define additional vocal shortcuts (”My best friend”) in addition to the name (”John Doe”)

• Split first and last name (saying “John” will display all corresponding entries of your address book)

• Shake the iPhone to try again.

Price = Only USD 3.99 - EUR 2.99 until 18th October, Afterwards, USD 7.99
Direct iTunes link

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