What's New in Speak4it 2.2
The first multimodal search application comes to the iPad!
- Now you can tell your iPad what you want and where to look for it. Press the microphone button, put your finger on the map, and say "coffee shops around here." Bingo!
- Don't like where the buttons are? Pinch the microphone button with two fingers and drag it where you want. Lefties and righties can have buttons on both sides, or put one in the center.
iPhone and iPod touch users also get new features:
- Speak4it always knew how to find what you wanted. Now you can give it commands like "call" or "driving directions" to tell it what to do.
- And if you want to see a map of someplace, just say its name, and Speak4it will take you there.
And last month in Speak4it 2.1
- Multimodal input integration
- What is that?? Ever notice how people in the real world can point to stuff and talk about it and other people generally get what they’re talking about? That’s the idea here. You can point to a spot on the map and ask what’s there. (OK, so you actually have to touch the map; not just point to it…. Semantics!) Anyhow, press the orange button, put your finger someplace on the map, and say, “coffee shops around here.” Try it!
- Toponymic homonym disambiguation
- Huh? Some places have similar names, or even the same name, because people in the old days needed to spend more time building cities and towns than thinking up new names for them. Now when you want to search around one of those, you get to tell us which place you mean.
- Salient location disambiguation
- Aw, you’re killing me. OK, never mind. You’ll find out soon enough.