PreviousTuesday 13 September 2005, 12:04 PM
The right kit to do the right job
What a great piece of kit. Microsoft have surpassed themselves & delivered reliable s/w, for once. I am using VOICE COMMAND on a PDA - XDA IIi (also known as blue angel), with combo of Sony Ericsson HBH-300 Akono Bluetooth Headset. Called person direct via commands - CONTACT [PAUSE] CALL ROB HOME 1st time it gets you there (no trg/voice tag, as it reads auto the contacts details), & Bluetooth kicked in 1st time automatically. Have experimented with CALENDAR, the range of voice options is great, it reads what you have entered in the Subject (for those of you with sense of humour you can type anything & it will read it out - very funny). The nearest piece of voice kit similar to this was the early & late lamented voice activation s/w with ORANGE (UK) the mobile phone vendor called WILDFIRE. I thought that was the best bit of voice kit out there. For those Bluetooth users its pretty simple. Hot Button the s/w, say the command/s, & once dialed, the Bluetooth should auto kick in, depending what headset you have (mine the Sony Ericsson HBH-300 – fantastic, tried 3 other headsets before finding this once to work with my PDA). Only thing left is to really try out dialing from other noisy background locations (station, street, beside just the car) either way since all activation requires you to: [1] press Hot Button; [2] speak into open mike setting [3] other factors play a part; a) some users may need to open case ; b) users contend with background noise. SUMMARY – Score: 5 out of 5. Voice Command is a killer app, worth the money, better than paler imitations (free or otherwise). The right kit to do the right job.
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