Voice Actions

Siri is a voice assistant that has been integrated into the iPhone 4S to make it run more efficiently and, thus far, ONLY comes with the iPhone 4S; period. Voice Actions is NOT integrated into your iPhone 4, 3Gs, or 3G. Voice Actions is a voice assistant APP; period. Now, with that cleared up, comparing apples to apples (excuse the pun), this is absolutely one of the best, if not the best, AI voice assistant app out there. I had an opportunity to get the iphone 4GS and didn't; figuring that i wouldn't even miss having Siri capability on my phone; so I got the iphone 4G. Well i was wrong; so began my search for an app that would be SIMILAR to Siri and believe me, look I did! I have tried most, if not all, of the top named voice assistant apps out there and no other APP that I have found even comes close to doing everything that this app can do; and I have tested it every which way. Is it perfect? Of course not! But then none of my apps are! (even the very best ones) Bottom line: please stop comparing this app (or any other app for that matter) to Siri. Read what this app says IT can do and base your comparison to that. If you are still not happy and pining for Siri, you will just have to buy an iPhone 4GS.

Been using this app for a week, and I'm not sure why so many people are having issues with it. I bought it to make hands-free reminders because I got tired of having to manually input mundane reminders to "take dog out at 3pm" or "pick laundry up in an hour." I use this app throughout the day to make reminders like the following: "Remind me to pick up my kid in 2 hours."; "Set timer for 45 minutes."; and "Remind me to meet friend at 5pm." It's cool that it creates an event in the native calender. I only wish it would update my Google calender as well. I wouldn't use it set an important alarm or appointment, though, because whenever I told it to wake me up the following day, it wouldn't and instead create an alarm for the present morning (thus defeating the whole purpose of a wake-up alarm!). I find it to be quicker at sending text messages and emails than Vlingo, although it is not as accurate as Vlingo. So there is some tradeoff. Overall, I'm happy with paying $3.99 for this app. I got tired of always borrowing my wife's 4S to make constant reminders with Siri.

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A lot of the reviews I read were great and there were a lot that weren't. But What the heck!!! I figured I'd support the developer(s) anyway and give it a shot. I downloaded to my iphone 3gs. After downloading it for the first time, it crashed several times and would just close out. So I had to reinstall it. I would ask it to do a search or other questions and it would just say "Let's see" and never respond. Also, at first the text would appear if it responded, but the last couple of times there was not text just words. There times when it would not respond at all and I would have to close out the program and come back into it. At this point, I WILL NOT recommend anyone buying this program and spending $4.99 on something that's not going to work. No one wants to feel like they wasted their money on an app that's supposed to work. If the developers compensate those that have spent their money on this and get the bugs worked out, then I would definitely provide another view. In the meantime, I'm gonna have to contact tech support or something because this is ridiculous. For those who didn't have any problems or at least got to reach the 300 limit, I guess they got lucky because I can't get past a few :(

It works fine now. The first day I got the app it didn't work very well, but then again I did get the app after I found out, the new Siri would not be integrated into iOS 5 for the iPhone 4. So I am guessing the server site of the makers of this app got hit hard because , like me, people that own the original siri, found this to be the closest thing to new Siri and similar to very very close to the old. I'm guessing that's why the low scores around the 10/4 and 10/5. Anyway the app is working fine now. While it's not as interfered as I would like it to be at this time. I'm holding out that company will try hard to become closer to the apple own Siri. And the reason why is money, I'm sure there will be more iPhone 4 and 3GS user out there than iPhone 4s. So it's a great opportunity for them, since Siri will only work with the iPhone 4S.

I must admit that Voice Actions has managed to redeem itself in some ways and has definitelty gotten alot better. It now answers alot more questions and completes more tasks than it did before. I was surprised that it gave me a long description on the definition of the word 'Fear'. Some of the pics which come up sometimes do not fit in with the question i asked and it is still gives too much limited info on particular questions such as when I ask it about specific people as it only gives their date of birth and sometimes their profession. There seems to still be a problem with it trying to play music even when you tell it to play a certain song. The maps and navigation have certainly improved and so far I have nothing bad to say about it. Now it needs to be able to send status updates to facebook and twitter by voice. Overall, in time this app can become a great competitor to other famous voice apps like Vlingo, Dragon Go and Voice Ask. Keep up with the future updates.