Speaktoit Assistant is an Android app that in many ways resembles Apple’s Siri for ione 4S. It acts as a virtual assistant that can respond to voice comms perform b searches other simple tasks. You can use Speaktoit Assistant to launch apps, find contacts, compose email or text messages, create calendar events, give directions, more.

Speaktoit Assistant uses ‘s voice transcription service to underst your spoken comms. The app lets you choose from among several iSpeech voices, all of which sound a bit more natural than ‘s robotic-sounding text-to-speech (TTS) service. I ended up settling on a female voice with a British accent that I found quite pleasant easy to underst.

The app has a fun feature that allows you to design a custom avatar for your assistant. The avatar doesn’t do anything functional, but it does give the app a bit more personality puts a face on screen to go along with the app’s voice.

Speaktoit Assistant is easy to use: Simply press the onscreen microphone tell the app what you’d like it to do. ke Siri, Speaktoit Assistant has a sassy personality will occasionally offer somewhat snarky responses.

But even though Speaktoit Assistant is one of the best most versatile voice-powered apps I’ve used, it had some hiccups limitations. At times I had to repeat my comms multiple times or manually type them in, in order for Speaktoit Assistant to underst me. so, the app could not read email or text messages aloud–a feature I had hoped would be included.

Still, overall, Speaktoit Assistant is a good voice-controlled app that supports a fair amount of integration with other Android apps. If you want a Siri-like app on your ‘droid, this is one of your better options. Though Speaktoit Assistant doesn’t work as a truly hs-free means to control your phone, it’s a step in the right direction.

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