Windows Mobile 6.5's presumably going to be the big news out of Redmond here at
MWC this week, but Microsoft's also using the show as an opportunity to launch the "technology preview" of its Recite software, an ultra-simple voice note app for WinMo 6.0 and above. The concept is one of those "I can't believe I didn't think of that" moments, actually: one button records your quick notes, and the magic happens with a second button that you use to search your previously recorded notes by voice. For example, you can record "Sean Cooper's birthday is May 22" and later search on "Sean," "Sean Cooper," "birthday," or any combination of words you've mentioned in the note to recall it. Doesn't get much more straightforward than that -- and happily, you'll pay a big, fat goose egg for the privilege of grabbing it. It's a beta product, but that's not necessarily a bad thing: Microsoft's trying to gather feedback on how awesome (or not awesome) it is before deciding how to use it going forward, so give it hell and let 'em know what you think.
posted February 15th 2009 4:51PM
Hmm, no workie on my Mogul. It'll record and crash after I press finish. Great idea though.
Works fine on my touch pro, but I can't delete the old voice notes that I used to test it.
Maybe I'm just missing something.
It works fine on my BlackJack II. Uses about 5.3mb of RAM though (would like to see that go down). Plus, I wish the whole app was voice controlled so there's no button pushing involved at all. Other than that, I like it so far and the search seems to work rather well.