Vlingo: Speech to Text for Mobile Phones

Vlingo is a new program for mobile phones that converts your speech into text.

Vlingo works on iPhone and Blackberry, and it's coming to Nokia and Windows Mobile soon.

The great thing about Vlingo is it only costs about $18 USD. (Speech recognition software for desktop computers generally costs hundreds of dollars.)

Some of the ways Vlingo can be used are to:

• compose emails
• compose text messages
• post to Facebook
• post to Twitter
• add memos
• add to-do items or tasks
• search the Web

Examples:

You could say "new memo hostel shopping list period milk comma eggs comma bread comma cereal" and Vlingo will instantly create a shopping list for you on your phone.

To create a new task on your to-do list you could say, "new task update prices on the website" and the task will be saved to your phone. If you sync your to-do list with remember the milk, your tasks will also be available on your desktop computer automatically.

To compose a new email you could just say "new email to Josh subject hi there message when is the next email newsletter going out question mark" and the email will be entered into the phone.

I wanted to recommend this software for anyone who uses one of the supported phones, because it saves a lot of time.

Here's a demo on Blackberry:

Here's a demo on iPhone: