Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Top 5 Best Free “Siri” Like Virtual Voice Assistant Apps For Android

Siri Like Apps for Android

“Siri”, the voice controlled virtual personal assistant which uses natural language processing to answer questions and make recommendations provided by the iPhone 4S has been the cause of discontent among Android users for some time now. This article is aimed at those who wish to get voice assistant apps similar to Siri for their Android powered smartphones. These apps, though not as wide-ranged as Siri but are an excellent alternative to it.

Google Voice Search

Google Voice search, the popular feature provided by Android is much like Siri in the sense that it enables them to make phone calls, get turn-by-turn navigation assistance, surf the web browser, listen to their favourite songs, find out about the local weather, and so much more just by talking to it.

Vlingo Virtual Assistant

Vlingo, argyably the best voice controlled app for Android, lets you send texts, find local restaurants and businesses, buy movie tickets, open apps and update twitter or facebook with your voice. This amazing app can be downloaded for free and costs $2 to remove ads. To use it, all you need to do is tap the “Speak it” button to give a command. To add to this, there is also an “in car” hands-free module that wakes up whenever you say “Hi Vlingo!”.

SpeakToIt Assistant

Another app similar to the Vlingo, the Speaktoit Assistant comes with the only advantage that instead of monotonous text interface, you interact with an animated assistant. By default, this is an energetic brunette, but it is up to the user as to how they would like their assistants to look. They can change its skin color, hair style and even the clothing. Again, this app runs only for Android version 2.1 and above. Personally i would recommend you this one as i found this more accurate than Vlingo and others.

Sonalight Text by Voice

As can be inferred by its name, Sonalight, the brand new app for Android 2.2 can draft and send SMS texts through your voice. It also reads back SMS’s that arrive, but apart from this, it does little else. This can be downloaded from the internet for free, but the catch is that it appends a Market link to the end of each of your messages which cost $20 a year.

Edwin, Speech-to-Speech

This app, which is very similar to Vlingo was developed for the Android version 2.1 and above. Like Siri, Edwin provides the user with Wolfram Alpha, so you can ask the app random questions, even the number of calories in your bagel. Apart from this, it can also be used to make calls, give map directions, tweet, and so on. Installing Edwin is basically free, but it requires SpeechSynthesis and TTS Extended, both of which come without any charge.

Iris. (Alpha)

Yet another app like “Siri”, the name actually is reverse of “Siri”. This app is very small in size and little slow to respond. The voice recognition is quite remarkable, not yet graphically advanced but we liked this app.

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