[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Dante Smith:
Droid Dictate & Control 1.06

Droid Dictate is an innovative tool for writing documents, chat and control your PC directly with your voice using the power of the Android voice recognition and full touch control, like mouse touchpad, volume, media player and internet browser.

While many try to imitate the famous app Siri, Droid Dictate aims to do something original and different: the voice commands and requests coming to your PC!

Imagine having to write a long document, a thesis, or simply chat: with Droid Dictate you can simply dictate what you want and the file on your PC will be populated automatically and with function Link to Apps, even while you're actually using another program.

Imagine also that you want to watch movies or listen to music on your Media Center PC and to do so from the comfort of your couch without lifting a finger!

With voice & touch commands all this is possible with Droid Dictate all this is possible!

Main features:

- Send dictated text to PC

- Touch mouse control, scrool wheel

- Applications, media player and internet browsing facilities

- Run system commands

- Voice controlled PC, internet browsing and media playing

- Speedbar, to fast and easy insert most used symbols

- Autostart voice recognition

- Link to App, send text to specified application

- Unlimited customizable commands

- App e WIndows executable auto updates

Some examples of markup:

If you say a sentence or two: Droid Dictate transcribe the text on your PC.

If you say "command point" Droid Dictate transcribe the symbol period (.) On your PC.

If you say "command point" 3: Droid Dictate transcribe the symbol period (.) Repeated three times (then insert the ellipsis ...) on your PC.

Some examples of system instructions:

If you say "run explorer" Droid Dictate start the Windows Explorer on your PC.

If you say "run internet" Droid Dictate will launch the default browser on your PC.

If you say "run off": Droid Dictate turn off the PC.

The list of commands is customizable and you can add as many as you want!

The Windows client:

To use Droid Dictate you must install the Windows counterpart to your PC. You can send the Setup executable directly via email or a cloud service (Google Drive, DropBox, Box, SkyDrive etc ...) or you can connect the device to the PC and run the file from the phone memory.

This is the link to download the client directly from your PC:

http://files.droidamax.com/droiddictatesetup.msi

NOTE: please ensure to enable the firewall exception for Droid Dictate executable to allow to send and receive data from Android device

INFO: The purchase of this app is intended unatantum and also includes updates that were released in the future and adding new features.

RELATED TOPICS: speech recognition, remote control, remote commands execution, pc control, windows utilities, multimedia, volume change and control, media player, vnc, desktop program, touchpad and graphic tablet, free customizable controls and commands, web browser, search, internet navigation, text dictation text

NOTE: some of these features are coming with next versions (vnc like features for example)

What are the required permissions setup?

WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Need to copy the installation file for the Windows client by the App to the phone memory.

CHECK_LICENSE

Necessary to verify that the app was actually purchased by Play Store.

RECORD_AUDIO

Used to detect the sound (speech) which automatically activate the voice recognition.

INTERNET

Need to send data to the Windows client on the local network.

UPDATED: February 26, 2013

CURRENT VERSION: 1.06

REQUIRES ANDROID: 1.6 and up

CATEGORY: Productivity

V. 1.06

+ mouse control, scroll wheel

+ volume and mute control

+ media player control

+ app selection, cursor control and focus

+ internet browsing, search and related actions

+ speedbar expansion with new buttons

+ classic keyboard writing integration

+ bugfixes and optimizations

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=droidamax.droiddictate