Say Who Dialer & Maps

Following up on my review of Melodis Dialer, this is a review of Say Who Dialer & Maps from DialDirections.com.

Say Who is a bit different than Melodis in that Say Who allows you to also look up an address, in addition to voice dialing, by speaking it into the application, and then opening up the iPhone Maps application with that address. It also allows you to select the contact's phone number to SMS them by opening up the iPhone SMS app with their SMS number (note that it does not do voice-to-text dictation). Melodis Dialer performs the above functions (though I accidentally omitted this in my review but has been since updated), Say Who allows you to speak a phone number into the application and will dial that number for you. Sweet!!

Say Who performs the voice recognition in the same manner as Melodis and all other voice dialing apps in that it records your voice lookup, sends the sound file to its servers, performs voice-to-text translation and then attempts to find a best match to your contacts, to an address, or to a set of numbers. All the heavy lifting is done server-side.

I would say that Say Who's competition is an overlap of Melodis Dialer, Google Apps, and vlingo. Not only can it do voice dialing, but address and business lookup, though it can't do search engine lookup that Google Apps and vlingo can. It does allow you to leverage the Nickname field in your contacts so that you don't have to say an entire name, but just their nickname.

All-in-all, the ability to dial a number not in your contact, and to use the contact's Nickname field makes it slightly better than Melodis, though I have Melodis to be faster in its response from the server.

Say Who is available in a Lite version which is free, and a Pro version.