Melodis Brings Free Voice Dialing to iPhone
4:13 am, December 4th, 2008, Lonnie Lazar
Melodis Corporation looks to make manual searching and scrolling for telephone contacts a thing of the past on your iPhone with its free Voice Dialer, available now on the AppStore.
“Dialing by voice is a much simpler, more natural interface than scrolling through a long list of contacts,” says Keyvan Mohajer, president and chief executive officer of MELODIS Corporation. “Many voice-based dialers are unacceptable because they are too slow, particularly as the number of contacts grows,” he adds, saying, “The Melodis Voice Dialer scales easily to deliver speed and accuracy whether the user has 10 contacts or 10,000.”
Users can search for contact information or dial contacts automatically using different voice commands. For example, users can say “Michael Smith”, “call Michael Smith”, “call Michael”, and so on. Saying “call” before the name automatically dials the number. Users can also specify whether they want to call the contact at home, at work or on their cell phone.
The app uses the company’s proprietary Crystal Engine, which avoids the traditional approach of voice-to-text conversion for search, which the company claims can achieve higher accuracy compared to existing solutions.
Unlike Google’s Voice Search capability, which allows users to simply raise the phone to the ear and begin speaking, Melodis requires the touch of a button on the phone’s surface to activate its voice reception. The app is free, though supported by what the company describes as “non-obtrusive mobile advertising.”
Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Advertising, Software, iPhone | Comment on this article
When will voice dialer become available on the Netherlands Itunes store?
Martin, on December 8th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Just got Voice Dialer. Doesn’t recognize my contacts. Almost worthless. Glad it was free. Hope someone has had a better experience and can clue me in. Larry
Larry Feldman, on March 21st, 2009 at 8:26 pm