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TweetSpeaker For iPhone Reads Tweets Out Loud

10:00PM October 7, 2011 | Alan Henry

If you’ve heard about Siri, Apple’s new voice-activated personal assistant for iPhone, and you wish more apps would speak aloud to you, TweetSpeaker is a new Twitter client for iPhone that will do just that. The app has easy-to-understand controls, and will read your stream, mentions, lists or direct messages out loud to you. More »


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Hound Lets You Search For Music With Your Voice

8:00AM June 12, 2011 | Alan Henry

iOS/Android: From the same team that brought you SoundHound, Hound is a music search app that lets you speak the name of a song or artist aloud to search for it in the SoundHound database. Once it’s found, you can read more about it, listen to a preview, or watch the video. More »


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Blurtl Enables Audio Updates On Facebook Via Your Phone

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8:30AM February 2, 2011 | Angus Kidman

Want to leave a Facebook status update that’s more than just some text and a link? Blurtl, a new service from Telstra, lets you leave an audio update via your mobile phone. More »


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DriveSafe.ly Reads Your BlackBerry Email

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11:30AM January 15, 2010 | Angus Kidman

Reading text messages or emails while driving is illegal, dangerous and stupid, none of which stops lots of people from doing it. Free BlackBerry app DriveSafe.ly reduces the risk by reading incoming messages out loud. More »


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Top 10 Telephone Tricks

4:00AM January 17, 2008 | Gina Trapani

When getting things done involves making phone calls, you want to spend the least amount of time and money on the horn as possible—and several tricks and services can help you do just that. With the right tones, keypresses, phone numbers, and know-how, you can skip through or cut off long-winded automated voice systems and humans, access web services by voice, and smartly screen incoming calls. Check out our pick of the 10 best telephony techniques for getting more done in less time over the phone.

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