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In most cases it's also going to be faster just to launch Safari and find the bookmark yourself. The two devices also have to be on the same Wi-Fi network.įrankly, I don't think all that effort is worth it for syncing up your bookmarks especially considering that you'll need to do that entire process over again if you've added new ones.

Vocalia app download#

The app can't grab them from your device due to a limitation in Apple's SDK, which means you have to download and launch a small executable file from Vocalia's site that can send your Bookmarks.html file to the iPhone/iPod. The bookmarks on the other hand, are a little more complicated. It's also a bit more customizable since you can go in and add nicknames for people you want to call, edit the phonetic spelling it's given them by default, and change the spoken language to one of the five other options including German, Spanish, and French.Īs far as setup goes, Vocalia is able to slurp in your contacts and iPod library as soon as you launch it for the first time. Vocalia doesn't run at a system level like Voice Control does, but it's up and ready to receive a voice command in under 10 seconds-the clear benefit here being for people who may be driving and who want to control their device without fumbling through menus. Vocalia lets you speak your contacts, songs, and even Web bookmarks to launch them. It also goes a step further to let you launch your Safari bookmarks simply by speaking their name. Just like Voice Control, it can look up a contact by name then launch a phone call, or do the same for a song from your iPod's library. Note that we are still thinking of a possible relaunch of Vocalia in the future, if we come up with new concept that makes sense, so if you have further feedback or ideas, please let us know.Got an older iPhone or iPod touch model and been jealous of the Voice Control feature your antiquated hardware is incapable of running? Check out Vocalia (link opens in iTunes), a voice-powered launcher that's quite fast, and accurate. Existing users can keep it on their iPhone or redownload it as long as it’s compatible with their version of iOS, but new users won’t be able to purchase it from us anymore. We aim at making great apps, therefore we need to focus and we prefer to remove it rather than to further abandon it on the store. While it received positive feedback over the years, we just don’t have enough resources to further develop it these days. And it was the first app to provide speech recognition in 6 languages, before Apple’s own “voice commands” in iPhone 3GS. At that time, we could boast of being among the very first Belgian companies to storm Apple’s digital shop.

Vocalia was released a few months later, on September 27, 2008. It was a challenge for us because the first iPhone had very limited computation power, and we needed to optimize and quickly train the speech recognizer to be ready as soon as possible after App Store launch. The goal of Vocalia was to quickly access contacts, songs, or internet bookmarks with speech recognition. When Apple opened the App Store to third-party developers in July 2008, allowing to create native apps for iPhone, we seized that opportunity and came up with an app that was both innovative and useful.

Vocalia app mac#

Before that, we were busy only with Mac apps.

If you didn’t know it, Vocalia was our first iPhone app that we released back in 2008, just after creating our company.