Voice Activated Calling

Vic Bayus turned me on to a great, free iPhone app yesterday. It's called "Say Who".

With "Say Who" you simply say a name or number from your Contacts and it will dial it for you. No training of the phone or anything like that is required. Better still you can get specific by saying things like "Vic Bayus mobile" so that it not only finds Vic but also selects his mobile number instead of some other number.

It's also easy to turn off auto-dialing, in which case it will present you with what it found so you can decide whether to dial or not. If you like what you see you touch the number and it dials it. It doesn't present just one match but several, with the most likely on top.

I've tried it several times now and it's scored 100%.

The only complaint I have is that after you say the number you have to wait a few seconds while it searches the database. Apparently I'm not the only one that is slightly discomforted by this in our need-it-now modern world. The app makers have eliminating the wait at the top of the list of coming improvements.

Because of the wait I don't think I'll use it for anyone that I call often, i.e. contacts that I've put in my phone Favorites. With Favorites, which I limit to the number of people that can fit on the Favorites screen without scrolling, I can hit any favorite number with just three touches: two quick presses on the Home button takes you to Favorites, and then one-touch on the number. But, with numbers that aren't on my Favorites list I'll definitely be using it.

Thanks Vic!

-Forsyth