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Sep 20

Acapela TTS Voices App – Pleasant Voices for your Android Device

I’m not in love with electronic voices, I mean my car gives me directions in a male voice I don’t really care for, my voice mail attendant seems like a really rude old lady, my home alarm system is always yelling about something… wouldn’t it be nice if sometimes we could actually select the voice we interact with?

Customizing your Android is nothing new, wallpapers and entire libraries of ringtones have been at our fingertips for a while now, but what about the voice? Well, now you can download the Acapela TTS Voices app, and check out any of the 50 voices available, in over 25 different languages and then select one or more of those voices to vocalize your Android device, including the voice of Queen Elizabeth.

The new Acapela TTS Voices app offers you the ability to easily add a new and pleasing voices to speech based apps. No more annoying nasal tones or unintelligible mumbling. Now you can simply choose the most appealing voice, or even two, and enjoy your written input as speech, all in real time.

Acapela includes 50 authentic voices, including but certainly not limited to Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Japanese as well as Swedish dialects and even local accents! So take a look at the talkative apps gallery and check out where and how an Acapela voice can read texts from your e-book or newspaper, navigate with Google Navigation or other GPS apps, and hear real time translation, learn languages with audio feedback and a whole lot more at acapelaforandroid.com Voices are purchased separately, for around 5 bucks.

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Jul 24

HISTORY Here – Turns your Life into a Guided Tour

Posted in: Today's Chili

Admittedly I am a bit of a history buff, I love spending weekends finding some old town and checking out the sights. I’ve always said I would like to take a walking tour or two, the only thing holding me back is that I hate being part of a crowd. I like to explore at my own pace. If only there was a way for me to know what kinds of things took place around me, without paying the guide, and having to walk in a sea of polyester pants and point and shoot cameras.

Well, HISTORY is introducing us to HISTORY Here, a new location based app that can turn your trusty iPhone into a kind of mobile tour-guide-in-your-pocket, that lets you experience the history of wherever it is you are, whenever you want to, in your own sweet time. HISTORY Here brings history to life in thousands of locations throughout the United States, so gather your crew, and take a historic walk. You might just learn something.

HISTORY Here currently has information on more than 3,500 historical locations, many of which are supplemented with exclusive videos, written content and pictures to create a dynamic visitor’s guide. For example, visitors to New York’s Brooklyn Bridge will learn that 150,000 vehicles and pedestrians cross the bridge each day and users also have access to an exclusive HISTORY video that tells the dramatic story of the Roebling family, the designers and architects who saw the project to its completion. Neat.

The HISTORY Here app can act like a virtual travel guide and provides information based on either current location or manual input of a specific destination. Users can simply tap the icons on screen to dig into a deep history of many locations and landmarks that cover our beautiful land. So make the most out of your next trip to the grocery store, and find out what happened where you live way before you got there. For free, at the i Tunes app store. Now who wouldn’t like that?

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Jul 20

Dash – Your new Smartphone Car Stereo

Posted in: Today's Chili

When I’m in the car I never know what to do with my phone, if it’s in my purse I may not find it again for days, I stick it in the cup holder and then I have no place for a drink. Recently I found a way to wedge it in the door handle, it leaves it nicely accessible, but I have had a few incidents where someone opened the door unexpectedly from the outside… so it’s not really the solution I had hoped for, and I’m not getting the most out of my phone.

Here’s an idea that uses your smartphone as the main part of your car’s stereo, I’d like you to meet the Dash. The idea behind the Dash is that it built to fit in the space your boring old stereo used to be, and allows your smartphone to connect and interact with the Dash stereo. Allowing you to take advantage of all the cool features your phone has to offer, safely and easily in your car. Music, navigation and phone calls are all within reach. Not to mention all the other road-friendly apps that can make your drive time more pleasant.

So whether you want to voice text, or check the weather, be alerted to upcoming speed traps or just listen to your favorite local radio station your smartphone will be there for you, mounted safely and securely in your car using special neodymium magnets, and don’t worry, the Dash is charging your phone for you too. The Dash is currently available for pre-order with an iPhone 3GS, 4/4S or iPod Touch Faceplate, but rest assured it will be compatible with most smartphones as the different faceplates become available. Pre-order prices starting at 349 bucks at devium.com.

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