Creaceed releases First French Speech Recognition for iPhone

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Creaceed releases First French Speech Recognition for iPhone - Published on 11/18/08

 

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Creaceed is glad to announce that Vocalia is the very first speech recognition application supporting French on the iPhone. French is the first new language supported by Vocalia, and Creaceed plans to add other languages in the future. Relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbours, or even restaurants. They all are in our address books. Vocalia helps you find quickly and easily the person or company you want to call or send an email to.

 

Mons, Belgium - Creaceed is glad to announce that Vocalia is the very first speech recognition application supporting French on the iPhone. French is the first new language supported by Vocalia, and Creaceed plans to add other languages in the future. Relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbours, or even restaurants... They all are in our address books. Vocalia helps you find quickly and easily the person or company you want to call or send an email to.

 

What are Vocalia's key features?

* Is a voice dialing application supporting large address books (up to 5,000 contacts)

* Supports English and French at this time

* Runs entirely on the iPhone, without network connection

* Doesn't send private information to some unknown and far away servers

* Provides default working phonemic transcriptions for all contacts (no additional work required to record contacts)

* Dispays phonetization progress, now user stoppable, with incremental saving

* No "Tap to speak"

* Displays visual effects responding to sound and gravity (a.k.a "Vocalia's Eye").

 

With Vocalia, it is possible to ...

* Define additional vocal shortcuts ("My best friend") in addition to the name ("John Doe")

* Split first and last name (saying "John" will display all corresponding entries of the address book)

* Select the number of speech recognition results shown (from 1 up to 10 names)

* Limit the extent to the speech recognition to groups

* Ask the iPhone to vibrate when ready

* Shake the iPhone to try again.

 

Minimum Requirements

* iPhone with Firmware 2.1.

 

Pricing & Availability

Vocalia is now available in French and English in the whole world on iTunes's App Store. We apply a special pricing of USD 3.99 (EUR 2.99) until 24th November to celebrate this world event. Afterwards, Vocalia will cost USD 7.99 (EUR 5.99).

 

Creaceed's Website: http://www.creaceed.com

Vocalia's Presentation: http://www.creaceed.com/vocalia

FAQ: http://www.creaceed.com/vocalia/faq.html

Purchase: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=291683886&mt=8

 

 

Creaceed is a Belgian company made up of passionate people with expertise in signal and image processing. They provide professionals and consumers with creative applications that are intuitive and easy to use: Morph Age for morphing and warping images/movies, Hydra for HDR image creation from regular photos, Magnet for adding special effects to QuickTime movies, and Vocalia for English and French speech recognition on the iPhone. Copyright 2008 Creaceed. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

 

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Sandrine Loiseau

Communication and PR Manager

00 32 477 42 26 74

 

sandrine ( -at -) creaceed.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

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