How to use Vlingo on your Android phone

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Thursday July 22, 2010

Vlingo

is a popular tool for BlackBerry and iPhone that is now available for

Android phones

. Vlingo is a

free application

that will

turn speech into text

and can be used for a great deal of functions such as doing an

Internet search with speech

reading texts or emails

to you and more.

People can talk faster than they type. They can also talk faster than their thumbs can move. Vlingo is a popular tool for BlackBerry and iPhone that's now come to Android. You can talk and Vlingo listens and acts.

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Show Notes

- You can download Vlingo in the Android Market and it's free.

- Tap on the Vlingo icon to open it up.

- If you tap on What Can I Say? you'll see all the things Vlingo can do. This includes text messages, emails, searches, dialing and more.

- Tap where it says Tap & Speak and give your command.

- For example, I said "sushi" and it opened the default browser and showed local sushi locations.

- If you tap on the menu key and then Settings, you can adjust the settings to your liking.

- Toggle SafeReader which will read text to you. You can also filter profanity.

- Decide to let Vlingo know your location which is handy when doing searches.

- Have Vlingo automatically insert punctuation.

- You can even use Vlingo to send text messages and email or make calls with Vlingo.

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