I was asked to allow access to the microphone and speech recognition when I first ran the app. I've not had time to try the voice control feature; but I just checked and if you go to the main Phone settings, and go down to the Voice App, you will find that it lists what Voice is allowed to access, which is both microphone and speech recognition, along with the camera of course. The developer, Shalin Shah I'm sure would love it if you would post your findings as part of a review in the app store. In the next update, he will be changing the app's name to say Voice OCR, so it is easier to find in the app store. Also he will fix a bug I found that if you are using a bluetooth earpiece, it switches to speaker. That will be fixed very soon. I'll be testing it more tomorrow. Later, Richard
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I was really excited when I saw the Voice app announcement, and as soon as I got home from work I downloaded it from the app store, installed it, grabbed a quick dinner, turned on the baseball game and proceeded to put Voice through its paces. Here are my preliminary impressions. I hope you don’t mind. The first thing I noticed was that Voice OCR wouldn’t respond to my voice commands and I could find no way to enable the mic, either in the Voice app’s settings or in the Settings applet. Any tips? I had a couple of pieces of snailmail to go through, just scanning the envelopes to see what I had. Voice’s edge detection was almost instantaneous, and the Capture button was easy to find, along with other screen elements. I took pictures of each envelope free-hand, tapped the Done button and the images were processed fairly quickly and accurately. Next I tried scanning pages from a magazine that I had lying around. Pages contain ads and coupons, so I expected print quality to be somewhat problematic for scanning, but I have to say that Voice did a very good job with each page, even when scanned upside down and with a deliberate 45-degree skew. There were some scanning errors, but there was very little gibberish. The Export feature is very nice. I was able to export scanned pages to a PDF document and copy the pdf file to Voice Dream Reader using the Share Sheet. The pdf was clean and easily read by Voice Dream Reader. Likewise, I was able to export as text, then, using the Share sheet, copy that text to an e-mail message which I almost sent to this list. Automatic mode could be really handy, especially while using my Fopydo scanning stand, but I’d like to be able to increase the time between scans; I found myself barely getting pages lined up just right before the next shutter click. Results with the Fopydo and automatic scanning were quite good as well, but the app bogged down a couple of times, so I’ll try it again after rebooting the phone. I’ll have more to say about this app as time goes on, but for now I’d say that Voice OCR is pretty good and well worth spending some time with. Tom -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu<mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>. 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