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Microsoft’s New Recite For Windows Mobile Reviewed

Reviews Written by: Mike Temporale on Sunday, February 15, 2009 2:30pm
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Microsoft has just released a new application for Windows Mobile users called Recite. Recite uses search technology along with voice pattern matching to help locate an audio note and play it back. Simply put, record yourself talking and then search through previous recordings to find the one you’re looking for. Think of it like this, a voice reminder application with search!

Recite requires Windows Mobile 6.0 or newer and can be downloaded for free from Microsoft’s website at http://recite.microsoft.com or directly on your phone by visiting http://recite.microsoft.com/download. Currently the application is a “technology preview”, basically a beta state. Microsoft is encouraging customers to download it and give it a try. So I did! The download is about 800KB and the install is straight forward.

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Once installed, you’ll see the screen above. This is the initial welcome screen and is only displayed until you have recorded some notes. To recorder your note, just press the remember button and then start talking. When you’re done, press the Finished button and Recite will record your voice and store it away for later use. Once you’ve recorded a couple notes the screen will display the recording sorted by date and time along with a play and delete button. The soft keys along the bottom allow you to quickly record another note, or search your existing notes.

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To search, press the Search button and then say a couple words from your original recording. Let’s say my previous recording was “Mobile Jaw is one of my favorite websites”. I could then search for “Mobile Jaw” or maybe just “websites”. When you’re done speaking, press the finish button and Recite will take a second to apply it’s voice pattern matching technology to find the best possible match.

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The results will be sorted based on relevance and the best match will automatically start to play. You can very easily scroll down and play other matches, if required. In my testing, Recite has been fairly accurate. There are some words that I haven’t been able to get the correct match on, like “eggs”. I’m not sure if that is just me saying it differently or the tone was off when I recorded it. I will be the first to admit that I’m not always the clearest when I’m talking. So I can’t fully blame this on Recite. All of my other tests worked perfectly. I’ll be running this over the coming weeks and see what kind of accuracy I get in the responses.

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2 Responses to “Microsoft’s New Recite For Windows Mobile Reviewed”

  1. Jerry Raia on February 15th, 2009 9:35 pm
    Jerry Raia

    Giving this a try. I hope the final product lets you choose where the audio files will go. Interestingly if you say a word that is in multiple files it just picks one file to play.

  2. Mike Temporale on February 16th, 2009 7:56 am
    Mike Temporale

    I agree, the ability to save the recordings to your storage card is very important and a surprising omision from this initial release.

    After searching, it automatically plays the first match. If there are other notes that match, you can scroll down and play those pretty easily. It should find the bsest match, but with only one word, that could be harder. ;)

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