Android Apps With Completely Voice Activated Text Messaging

ShoutOut

ShoutOut is a speech-to-text application that includes both dictation and voice-address capabilities. Simply speak your message into your phone and within moments ShoutOut displays the text on your phone’s screen, allowing you to send it via text message or save it for later use. ShoutOut’s features include hands-free reply, composition and calling, voice-activated punctuation, pop-up notifications and discussion threading. ShoutOut is a free application. It’s 4.4 MB in size and requires Android 2.1 or later. ShoutOut is a product of Promptu Systems Corporation.

Text and Drive

Text and Drive was designed for use in automobiles, but it works on most smartphones, regardless of where you’re using them. Text and Drive reads your incoming text messages aloud and lets you dictate your responses. Its simple user interface is based around a large button centrally located on your phone’s screen, making it easy to enable and disable the voice-recognition engine when you’re driving or otherwise occupied. Text and Drive costs around $1.50 and requires Android 1.5 or later. It’s 1.8 MB in size and was developed by Xenom Apps.

Speech to Text

Like all speech-to-text apps on Google Android devices, Speech to Text makes use of Android’s onboard speech-recognition engine. The application’s graphical user interface lets you choose whether you want to convert speech to text, or vice versa. After you’ve spoken your message, Speech To Text lets you then choose whether you’d like to send it via SMS or email, or export it to another application. Speech To Text is a free application. It’s 1.2 MB in size, requires Android 1.5 or later, and was developed by Xenom Apps.

Walk and Text

Walk and Text is a variation on traditional text messaging applications in that it uses your smartphone’s built-in camera to show you where you’re going while you have your head down texting. It also has a robust text-to-speech feature called Voice2Text that lets you dictate your messages and send them via SMS or email. Walk and Text’s user interface offers some handy customization tools like an available backlit virtual keyboard for nighttime texting and a character counter that displays and reads aloud the length of your message. Walk and Text is 476KB in size, costs around $2 and requires Android 1.5 or later. It's a product of Incorporate Apps.