Ok, by now we all know some of things that are not included in the iPhone that most other new phones these days include.  One of them is Voice Dialing.

The only thing I can figure is Apple is counting on the App developers to come up with things that will fill the gaps.

Well for voice dialing there is a new App in the App Store called Voice Dialer that is trying to fill the gap of voice dialing.  Unfortunately it still requires some iPhone hands on to get it to work.

Because of the developer agreement with Apple, applications are not allowed to run in the background.  So there is no way currently to detect when someone pushed the button on their bluetooth headset.  So to dial by voice you must first load the application by tapping on Voice Dialer.

Then you must touch the large button on the top part of the screen while giving the phone a command.

So how does it work?  Actually pretty well.  The first version I had would not automatically dial the number, you had to click on the number you wanted to dial.  The latest update that I have does allow you to set a timer that will automatically dial after a set number of seconds.

I can only think this is so you can verify the person it selected is the correct person.

So far I have found the matches it finds to be pretty accurate.  There is also no voice training like other voice dialers.  You can use simple commands like “call John appleseed work” or “call nickname dad mobile”.

After speaking the command you will quickly see the contact information on the screen and after the set number of seconds for auto-dial, the dialing process begins.

This is still a young app and I am excited to see where they take the app.  This is the first voice dialer app that is work writing about.

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