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Twitoc

Posted Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 at 1:19 pm by Antonio Wells 0 Comments

User Rating3.25/5

Discover a fun & new way to send your tweets using only your voice. Twitoc is a ‘widget’ based mobile application for Android that sends out “tweets” to your Twitter account via Google Voice Recognition. Requires +2.1 Android Firmware. For the best results: Speak Clearly, Say Quick short tweets, Have some fun with it .

Price: Free

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Pros & Cons:

Pros

• Awesome alternative way to send Tweets by Voice
• Good for hands-free tweeting

Cons

• Bound by the accuracy of Google’s Speech-to-Text engine
• Only for Android 2.1+ phones
• No tweet character counter
• Some may argue the point of Twitter is to discreetly send messages without everyone hearing them

Features:

Twitoc Android App is a cool way to speak your tweets! It is a home screen widget plus app; simply open it, say what you want to tweet and send. (I really wish Nuance’s text-to-speech engine was built in, however it’s not yet vailable). It displays what it thinks it heard so you can verify accuracy before tweeting. Tip: we’ve noticed if you hold the phone to your ear as a normal conversation and speak clearly, you’ll get the best results.

Gripe Alert: unfortunately this awesome idea has a crutch with Google’s server-based Speech-to-Text engine powering the app. In my personal experience the accuracy of the engine is about 97-99% accurate. Plus tweeting is all about the shortest abbreviated text as possible; which makes saying “Retweet” and it not recognizing it yet typing out “RT” not possible. It is also missing a character counter so you know if you’ve tipped the 140 character limit, plus it would be nice to have some list of recent tweets.

Usefulness:

The app is more cool idea and offers an alternative solution to tweeting.

Ease of Use:

Twitoc is a 4×1 home screen widget or you can open it directly. Once it’s open it will start listening for your tweet. Speak, verify and send. That’s all!

Android Advice™: How do I place the widget on my home screen?

Once installed go to home screen where there is free space for 1×1 or 4×1 (equivalent to 4 app icons across) » Longpress (hold for 2 or more seconds) an empty area » choose Widgets » select app from the list.

Interface:

The app presents native Android 2.1+ Speech-to-Text engine followed by a simple text field where your tweet can be reviewed/edited then sent.

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