Unlike some people around these parts, I loves me some Twitter (psst, follow me.) Thing is, just about every time I get a chance to tweet, I can’t. Maybe my hands are covered in grease as I’m stuffing my face with a delicious burger; maybe I just don’t want to come home from a long day of blogging and have to squeeze my thoughts into 140 characters with my iPhone’s made-for-babies keyboard.
Voice recognition Twitter apps are intriguing, but none of the major Twitter clients have it yet (as far as I know), and I’m just not hardcore enough to drop money on any apps that might offer voice-tweeting as its sole functionality. Fortunately, an already worthwhile app has come along and solved all my problems via upgrade.
IM+, a pretty dang decent instant messaging app (which supportsAIM, Yahoo, Twitter, Skype Chat, Facebook, Google Talk, Yahoo, and more), has just submitted a build which packs Voice Recognition for Twitter and IM as one of its major features. It’s not quite up yet, but Taimur over at RedmondPie managed to scrounge up a pre-release copy.
While we’ll have to wait to see if we’ll give the Voice Recognition the Crunchtastic Seal of Approval (which I actually just made up right now), it doesn’t seem to stumble over Taimur’s mild accent. It seems to rely on a server to do the crunching, which introduces two caveats: it’s a bit slow, and it’s not free. That said, it’s only .99c a month – and if that means I can tweet without slathering my iPhone in burger grease, it might be worth it.
the free vlingo app can do voice recognition for twitter since ages..
That’s great! What a cool function.
Greg, thanks for your interest in IM+. If you want to test pre-release version please send me your device udid and we will make a special build for you.
Many thanks again, look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Elena, PR Manager, SHAPE Services
Will this be an add on for those thy already have IM+ or will it be something extra to purchase? I’m always down to beta test a well and give constructive feedback. :)
Jordan: thanks for your message.
Please contact prATshapeservicesDOTcom with your request.
Speech recognition will be payed feature and will cost only 0.99.
Finally, IM+ 3.4 is available in App Store.
New features include:
- Speech recognition as an in-app purchase feature.
- Animated Emoticons.
- Copy text from chat bubbles.
- New email notifications via Push – for Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail.