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[mistersquid]

Apple can't even bothered to add cut-and-paste and you want them to add voice recognition?

[f00fighters]

This App is amazing. It's my new favorite. By the way, Btw, until Apple gets it right, try the free App called "Say Who". So far it is the best voice dialer on the iPhone.
Does anyone know for sure, if the google app supports calling your contacts? Because you can search for your contacts by typing them in google. If not, they need to implement a phrase, like "Call" and then you say the person's name -something like that.
I kept trying different things, but it kept showing me actual google search results.

[jdb8167]

All I get is a constant "Didn't go through" message. So far, it hasn't worked once.

[jdb8167]

Interesting. The WiFi at work seems to be blocking it. When I switch to 3G only, it works fine.

[andfu]

I don't find this app to be very impressive. When I asked "How large do elephants grow?", I got "How large do adolescents grill?" By contrast the "Say Who" app voice recognition has no problem finding even obscure foreign names in my contact list when I speak into it. The links provided by the app also break when I try to get to them directly from the app -- it wants to always go to http://localhost. All in all quite disappointing.

[f00fighters]

When I first installed it, it didn't work. I had to do a soft reset, and it worked. The app is a little buggy, and the voice recognition is far from perfect, but it's not bad. I was more taken by the concept if anything. Just gives me a greater appreciation for my iPhone.

[itsjustme]

Can't seem to get the app to recognize or search contacts. Settings has a check for contacts and even if I uncheck all but contacts....no luck...still get a web results page. I actually imported all my contact into google's gmail contacts to see if that would help...no luck. The app is definately accurate and impressive...

[doglesby]

You do realize that google isn't doing speech recognition on the iPhone, right? All they do on the iPhone is record the audio. The speech recognition is done on servers.

[MacliferSteve]

I wanted to add that the app works for the new iPod Touch, as well, using a headset mic.

:)

[aryayush]

Just so it’s clear, I do know that Google does the voice recognition on the server. But there’s a difference between trying to recognise every single word you speak correctly and trying to match what you spoke with the entries in your contacts list. I’m pretty sure the latter is much easier to do than the former and would yield more accurate results.

In any case, my point was about Google’s implementation of the feature, not the feature per se. Several people have cited the lack of any proper UI convention that could be used to implement copy-paste on the iPhone as the major reason for its absence (along with it being low on Apple’s priority list). What my point here is that the way Google does it is pretty awesome and this is how Apple should do it if they ever implement voice dialing on the iPhone.

[newguy21]

Apple better get their act together and add voice-activated dialing via a firmware update fast.
Where I live there will soon be illegal to use an iPhone and other phones while driving unless calling/answering can be done via voice activation or at most a single button that does not require you to take your eyes from the road.
Some people may say how can that be enforced? Well, don't argue with the cop that gives you the ticket, and then take a day off work to argue it in front of a judge. The cost of that alone negates buying an iPhone. Blackberry Storm anyone?

[bonesb]

I like the concept of the app, however, it's definitely a little buggy.
The voice recognition feature worked when I put the phone to my face - the first few times; now and since, the interface has the Search pane with a tiny little button in the screen's upper right corner. Deleting and reinstalling the app (temporarily) "fixes" this annoying aspect of the new version of the app.
Google's apps - this one included - don't "stick" with Location Services (Google's stock Maps app is guilty as sin with this bug). The Google Mobile App either fails to initialize GPS in the iPhone, Location Services needs to be reset, or the GM App needs to be deleted and reinstalled (the Maps app "forgets" to issue the Location Services prompt most of the time after a few iterations of being used).
I found that a couple of other apps - including Say Where - gave me better results, e.g. searching with the GMA for "Pizza" yielded the headquarters of Pizzacato, a local chain (they don't serve) and searching for "gas" yielded the home office for Northwest Natural Gas (you can figure that one out). Say Where omitted the obvious incorrect data, and gave me options to utilize GPS while the chip warmed up. Google's got so many incorrect POIs it's almost comical at times, I'd rather pay for a service that verifies and maintains their POI data or hooks into one that's correct most of the time...
Apple and Google should collaborate - with ATT or Nuance, and license their voice recognition technology. Or, I hope that Nuance will port their Voice Control software to the iPhone - it works great on my VZ Treo 755p!

[FuturDreamz]

I just want to point out that Google VR is like Yahoo! VR for Blackberry, and what you're asking for is like Vlingo, a very useful app for the Blackberry