Wouldn’t it be nice to never dial a number again. What if you could just push one button and call all your friends by name? That in a nutshell is what Mobivox does. She’s a call assistant. “Hi Stuart. Who would you like to call?” My video examples below show how you can voice-enable the iPhone; in fact any phone and put all your friends on one button. Or simpler still just use a single voice command as shown in Video Three and soon maybe available through the SDK.
Video One: iPhone Favorites or Speed Dial
This simply uses the “favorites” (a double home key on the iPhone 1.14) as the speed dial function to Mobivox. I’ve saved my local access number / it’s in my contacts. This differs from
- Other speed dialing solution are limited to one number. Mobivox reaches anyone in your Mobivox directory. (Mobivox to Mobivox calls are free, as are Mobivox to Skype calls which I use frequently)
- I recognize it may still be easier to call a few close friends directly by speed dial. Eg Family members. However then you won’t be able to bring Mobivox back into the call and start a conference or more…
- Some very slick cellphones have voice activated dialing but it doesn’t work that well. I’ve had some success with Mobivox on bluetooth in the car.
- Think call assistant rather than voice enabled.
This video uses a suggested on a number of iPhone related blogs. . Basically you put a callto: link onto your iPhone home page by creating it in the Safari browser. It’s technically still two clicks. I didn’t work out how to create a custom button however and a. Anyone want to create one for Mobivox? The result is the same. One number enables you to ask for your friends by name.
Video 3: Jailbroken iPhone Voice Enabled by Makayama
BTW…. do all these things at your own risk; particularly jailbreaking your iPhone, and be careful with numbers etc.
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