Hi I was wondering if there was a piece of software that will read out my emails when driving and indeed let me reply via my voice.
I have seen a couple of suggestions that this is possible and as I spend most of my time on the road it would help greatly.
Is there such a piece of software.
Thanks in advance
I had been looking for exactly the same thing. Finally I installed it last week and tried it. I find it useful.
Fonix speech is probably the best I have come across. And does the job quite well.
Features:
1. Can assign a hardware button to start it.
2. Then it can read your outlook emails. You can also use voice instructiomns to start an applicvation (e.g. gps), dial a phone number, have the calendar appointements read to you, have the tasks read to you.
3. You can read emails, delete them or skip them (after it has read the header). The emails read to you are quite accurate (some pronounciations may be funny
4. You can reply to an emai, but it records your response in an attachment (.wav file) which iy them sends it by email. Not the best way to respond to your work emails (atleast not yet). So to restate, the replies are not converted to text.
Let me know if you need any help.
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I had been looking for exactly the same thing. Finally I installed it last week and tried it. I find it useful.
Fonix speech is probably the best I have come across. And does the job quite well.
Features:
1. Can assign a hardware button to start it.
2. Then it can read your outlook emails. You can also use voice instructiomns to start an applicvation (e.g. gps), dial a phone number, have the calendar appointements read to you, have the tasks read to you.
3. You can read emails, delete them or skip them (after it has read the header). The emails read to you are quite accurate (some pronounciations may be funny
4. You can reply to an emai, but it records your response in an attachment (.wav file) which iy them sends it by email. Not the best way to respond to your work emails (atleast not yet). So to restate, the replies are not converted to text.
Let me know if you need any help.
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I have noticed on Fonix web site the Fonixtalk is due out which is apparently fantastic but cant seem to find it.
Any ideas. I have the older version but the speach is not to clear and as you say it doesnt type emails.
http://www.fonix.com//fonix/index.php
sounds good but when is it out.
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There are a couple of good tools on here, both called Group SMS, which allow you to send a single text to multiple contacts, at the same time. The relationship here is one to many.
I am looking for someone to develop a tool to do the opposite, i.e. the ability to select a number of texts to send to a single contact. The relationship here is many to one.
Is anyone interested in taking this challenge on? The preference would be to further develop one of the group SMS tools to be able to accomplish both tasks from within the same tool rather than having to run yet another small program on the PPC. Alternatively it might be useful to develop a tool that can undertake both core functions, ie one to many and many to one.
I run a HTC Tytn, so I am looking for the application to be optimised for use on this device.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers
WB
well you can use threaded sms. it basically gives you a chat style so you can keep typing away.
Sorry Bowlopho, you have completely misunderstood what I want. I don't want to cut & paste into a threaded SMS application, which is what I think you are referring to.
What I want to do is pick up several discreet text messages, all at once, and attach them to a single contact, then send in a one time operation only. I want them to remain as discreet messages when I send them, not blurred into one giant text.
I know exactly what I am looking for. Appreciate your input.
WB
to me sounds like a SMS Bomber with like different messages Yes?
Forgive my ignorance; SMS bomber? Sounds sinister. What does that do?
All I'm looking for is a tool that will let me send several discrete texts to one person in one overall selection process rather than to tediously have to repeat the process for each text message over and over.
The idea is a simple one and is the reverse of the tools already out here that allow one to send a single message to multiple/many contacts.
Thanks
WB
Hiya,
I'll add this to my Pocket SMS Manager, as it should be easy AND someone else requests it.
Pete
Pete,
Good to hear from you. If you are able to blend this into your tool then that would be an excellent result. How long would this take to develop/implement?
PM me if you need more detail in terms of what I am looking for, although it should be sufficiently clear from my posts in here. Incidentally, have not had chance to keep up with developments on your tool. Have you sorted the delays and slow updates, assumed to be caused by Activesync, that I reported to you some time ago?
Let me know.
Cheers
WB
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There are a couple of good tools on here, both called Group SMS, which allow you to send a single text to multiple contacts, at the same time. The relationship here is one to many.
I am looking for someone to develop a tool to do the opposite, i.e. the ability to select a number of texts to send to a single contact. The relationship here is many to one.
Is anyone interested in taking this challenge on? The preference would be to further develop one of the group SMS tools to be able to accomplish both tasks from within the same tool rather than having to run yet another small program on the PPC. Alternatively it might be useful to develop a tool that can undertake both core functions, ie one to many and many to one.
I run a HTC Tytn, so I am looking for the application to be optimised for use on this device.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers
WB
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WB -
Please elaborate more about what you want - just so that it's very clear your concept request is understood -
Having the idea scope would be helpful:
* What is the benefit of having this tool
* For what major purpose would it serve
* When you mention chaining a few selected texts together to send to one recipient, can you provide a theoretical example?
If you can provide some more detailed walk-through hypothetical scenarios, it would help me as well.
Thanks,
DSO
IMSMS,
Thanks for the response. I will develop some scenarios and email them to you so you can have a clear idea of what I am looking for.
Thanks
WB
Hello,
I hate reading. What I would love is having VC reading some texts for me.
I don't know if anybody already had this idea, but I think this should not be too difficult to realize. Theoretically it already works, you just got to send all your texts via email to yourself. As this is very umfortable, I'd like to have a small tool which can open text files such as txt oder doc and then makes VC to read them.
VC can read any texts in the language in which it is installed (the messages and emails), so there must be a possibility to realize this dream.
Any ideas?
Would be great,
thanks,
MPW
If you go into the settings of Voice Commander you can change whether it reads High priority messages only-turn this off and it will read any new texts out. Works for me anyway
how do you make it read without saying "S M S"?
Flarestarwingz,
What build of VC are you using? I have tried several, including the cabs to fix various problems, and never managed to get it to read out text messages or appointments, no matter what settings I use.
Would be helpful if you could post up your settings as well, if that's not too much trouble.
Thanks
WB
Ah, it was on a Rom I had a few days ago, but i just re-cooked a Rom without it. Ill see if ive got the cab file and check it does work.
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Ok it definitely works as i said I set the options to play messages on bluetooth when available (middle choice) and on Email options I set it to announce new email, unchecked high priority, and unchecked only in free time and it worked for me
I used a cab file i have for Voice Commander v1.60.4622.0
Flare,
Thanks for the info. I will seek out this build of VC and see how I get on. I must admit I am not hopeful; I have lost track of how many versions of VC (and cabs to fix problems) I have tried.
Thanks again for the info.
WB
Sorry, but you missunderstood my question.
Of course, I know how to make VC to read my appointments and it works perfectly for me.
But I want VC to read any texts (for example books!) for me.
I think that should be possible, because VC can read any email. So it should be possible to find out how to make it read any texts by just enterning the filename or writing a small tool...
Thanks,
MPW
You are talking about MS Voice Command - not Cyberon Voice Commander, right?
Yeah, we're talking about MS Voice Command. I'm aware of the fact that this software doesn't support this function. But I think it should be easy to realise it, because Voice Command can read any email text, so why shouldn't it be able to read any rext/book/what else?
Hi All,
I don't know if this as been posted before, i couldn't find it if it was.
I'm looking for an app which will take voice mail and record it right on the phone when i miss a call. I've seen it for S60 phones but never for WinMo. I've been looking for almost a year off and on but have never found anything near what i want. If anyone has seen it send me the name please, it would be a great time saver.
Chris
Grandcentral?
I don't know if you'd be interested in all that it entails but check out http://www.grandcentral.com as a possible solution. It's not exactly what you're after but may work out for you....
Hey, thanks for the link. I think i may have found what i'm looking for! I have not tested or installed this yet, i'm at work. I'll be installing it over dinner and putting it to the test. Heres the link:
http://www.isecretary.net/download.php
Chris
I've been using Callwave: http://www.callwave.com/landing/mobileVisualVoicemail.aspx?r=NONE
Again, it's not exactly what you said, but you can set it to send you and email with attachment which you can save to your phone.
I was using SimulScribe/SimulSays, but their customer service is atrocious. So bad that at one point the CEO emailed me to apologize for how I was treated after reading the email exchanges only to ignore my response email asking if my lost voicemails could be recovered. I guess the answer was no.
The other nice thing about Callwave is that it will transcribe your voicemail (good for reading messages while you're in meetings). I don't know if that's free longterm however.
i'll be interested to hear how the isecretary worked out...
HI,
I haven't had a chance to really test it out yet, I've been super busy. I did test it when i first downloaded it and i think it may have deleted all of my contact #'s. Not sure it was the program or something i did as messing with my phone seems to be my new habit. At present i can record a message from an incoming call but i'm having trouble getting the greeting to play. Adjusting the settings may be all thats needed but i don't have the time to do it yet. If i get it under control i'll post what i did to get it to work.
Chris
Hi,
I have a T650i and I would like to transfer my SMS from that phone to my Xperia X1.
I've seen many threads explaining how to transfer contacts from older SE-phones, but nothing about SMS. Can it be done? I used to do use MyPhoneExplorer, but since it doesn't support WM, it's not an option anymore.
Thanks
save them to your SIM if possible!?
i remmeber older phones saving SMS on the simcard only. not sure if a winmo phone can use these
Thanks, but the problem is that I have around 900 SMS and the sim only accepts 30.
Is there any other way to do it through the PC?
900sms? i bet 5$ that u dont even need half of them oO
u should to an T650i forum and ask there. once u manage to squeeze te SMS into outlook somehow, u can probably just sync them
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900sms? i bet 5$ that u dont even need half of them oO
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I write approx. 900 SMS each month and the same amount I get back. But therefore I have hardly any calls. Good for me that I've got a SMS-flatrate
According the problem:
In which file format does myphoneexplorer save the transferred SMS? It has to be possible to convert these to a usable format. Maybe it would be enough to have all the SMS as a text-file on your X1 so you can read through if needed?
I have problems with the X1 everytime I have that much SMS stored (messaging software does not open, it does not respond to key presses and so on)
MyPhoneExplorer saves the SMS archive in many formats: txt, csv, xml, html, right click and export.
I used MyPhoneExplorer to backup sms's on my K800i, i have every single sms i ever received in the K800's lifetime (2 years).
And while in this subject, i'll ask the following question:
Is there in WinMo a way to backup sms like i already do with with K800 and MyPhoneExplorer? a way to backup the sms's and save them to the computer in some readable format?
Since MyPhoneExplorer saves the SMS archive in txt, csv, xml, html, is there any way of transfering them (as sms, NOT as a text file) to the same sms inbox on the X1?
Try SMSimport. It's a freeware that imports and exports in XML. It's a simple exe that you run directly on the phone.
http://wince.nasenbaeren.net/smsimport/
You may have to edit the names of the folders in the XML to make it compatible with your X1.
You can just make an export file from it first to see the XML import structure.
Hi. I'm new to this community and I'm very impressed. Congrats
I've tried once to import SMS via SMSImport, but it always said 'Invalid XML' or sth. like that although I rearranged the order in the XML as SMSImport seemed to want it.
Has anybody solved this issue?
THX
I use OEExport. It exports to Outlook Express with the folders intact (Inbox, Deleted, Sent etc). It has an option to export to xml too, IIRC.
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My question, is why on earth would anyone need to keep all those SMS?
I mean, unless your girlfriend doesn't tell you she loves you enough and you need to keep the texts, or if youre keeping them for evidence (for some reason) or maybe if you have a friend like I do who gets sent joke SMSs and decides to forward 700 of them to you when he's on flatrate weekend SMS just to piss you off because your phone becomes unusable for pretty much the entire weekend.
Please enlighten me.
Would it help if I tell you that some people like to keep records of all their SMS in/out.
I had a girlfriend a few years ago that wrote down every single SMS in a notebook. No, I'm not kidding. She wasn't that much into computers obviously.
0_o
maedox said:
Would it help if I tell you that some people like to keep records of all their SMS in/out.
I had a girlfriend a few years ago that wrote down every single SMS in a notebook. No, I'm not kidding. She wasn't that much into computers obviously.
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Nope, it seems it's still beyond all comprehension of mine. Do you guys also record all voice conversations you make?
I mean, keeping your text messages is hardly like keeping a box of love letters or something now is it?
I'm as much as cyborg as the next guy, I am so electronically inclined that the gadgets I carry and use will probably fuse to me one day anyway, BUT i just don't find anything anyone has to say to me by text _that_ interesting or _that_ important
I'm not taking a swing at you guys or anything, I just really would like to understand, I'm a happier person when i understand things.
Like, ok, I keep the odd text message about things people have said to me, because theyre just downright fantastic for my street cred (if you know what I mean) but that's simply because some of it is just so good, nobody would believe me if i just told them myself, even if i quoted it word for word.
I'm with you. I usually don't need to think twice about throwing away messages when doing a hard reset. Although, as you say, there are some that need to be kept safe forever.
But this is not what the topic's about.
O.k. guys, I'm convinced now. I won't spend any minute anymore in thinking about how to transfer my SMS back. 99% of all that stuff I would rather likely never need again in the future and if I really need it, it is still on my PC.
Nevertheless - thank you!
Greetz
Why backup sms ?
Some of my SMS contain info I need, I am just too lazy to save it when I get it - like an address, or rocket launch code just plain I like to have my SMS conversations available to refresh my memory in case I need it.
From time to time I want to do upgrade or other destructive thing and I don't want to loose my messages. I would like to keep a copy of all my SMS in outlook 2007 but my cheapskate uprising and empty wallet steer me out of paid software, I am going to try programs mentioned in previous posts but if someone knows about some great synchronization or transfer or WhateverYouCallIt software please keep us informed about it.
Thank you all for great site.
i think MOBILedit works for you.
google it for the main website.
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...To have the bloody thing read an SMS message?
I have looked, but cannot find this though I know it can do it.
I'm still trying to figure out the command to make it wash my dishes.
Camusa said:
...To have the bloody thing read an SMS message?
I have looked, but cannot find this though I know it can do it.
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Based on what I've seen, MS voice command doesn't work right on the HD2. It wont read your SMS messages - and even worse it won't announce your incoming caller's info either.
Someone out here on the forum talked to HTC about the problem & they know about it (not that they've fixed it)
Thank you for that.
I spoke to a rep at Tmo and one at HTC and both said they were unsure that the device cold do this.
I told them I was POSITIVE that it is supposd to be able to do it, but no one had an answer.
Appreciate the info.
I've been using MS Voice Command to read the subject of urgently marked e-mail messages for a number of years on various WM devices. On my TMOUSA HD2 it almost works--only about the first half of the subject is read aloud. The second half gets read aloud when the next e-mail message is received.
It seems like is must be a filled/over-filled buffer problem/bug.