Dragon Mobile Assistant Brings Siri-Esque Voice Commands to Android

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Aomei Partition Assistant Home Edition Review: Partitioning Utility Is Great for Home or Business Use

Partitioning utilities were once mysterious, geeky, and expensive. No more--witness Aomei's Partition Assistant Home Edition 4.0, which is highly competent, and free. Aside from being a nice upgrade from the integrated Windows tools provided by Microsoft, PAHE is probably the easiest-to-use partition utility I've encountered.

Partition Assistant Home Edition doesn't deserve its "Home" designation, which frequently appears in software names as shorthand for "feature-deprived." The program can resize, move, split, extend, copy, create, delete, format, wipe, and hide partitions--mostly within Windows, and without a reboot. There's not a lot else you can do with partitions. The program can also copy entire drives, but it can't copy to an image file--a feature that would have made this program well-nigh perfect as a disk utility. Even the paid editions of Aomei Partition Assistant don't offer copying to image files, though.

Simple, straightforward, and effective, Partition Assistant Home Edition's interface is all it needs to be.PAHE's interface is utilitarian in the best sense of the word. My favorite feature is the list of pending changes at the bottom of the tasks pane on the left side of the main window. As that description suggests, you can stack changes and then apply them all at once so you don't have to wait around for each operation to finish. The app is simple to use and its help file is well written. When I wanted to check on dynamic disks, however, I did miss the search function found in most help files.

As it turns out, the app doesn't support dynamic disks. But it was flawless in my testing with normal partitions, performing every operation in fine style on both GPT and MBR disks. Aomei's Partition Assistant Home Edition has won an extended stay in my toolkit: It's easy, effective, and to the point. Pros can opt for $36 Professional Edition (for workstations) and $139 Server Edition that handle dynamic disks and (in the latter case) will run on a server operating system.

--Jon L. Jacobi

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Speaktoit Assistant Review: Your All-In-One Virtual Assistant

Speaktoit Assistant is a virtual buddy for your Android device that uses natural language technology to answer questions, find information, and connect you with various web services, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and many others.

The Assistant works with your smartphone to get maps, search for news and images, look up weather reports, convert currency and measurements, send email, and much more.

No need to memorize special commands or complex interfaces - simply speak or type in everyday language and the Assistant will understand and respond with what you need.

Compare to Siri, Nuance, Dragon, Vlingo, Voice Actions, Voice Search, Wolfram Alpha, IBM Watson.

This is a beta version - if the assistant doesn't answer some of your questions we will fix it really soon.

Keywords: chat, speak, talk, talking, speak to it, chatbot, voice, speaking, speech, assistant, concierge

Recent changes:

Added translation from English

Minor bug fixes

Content rating: Low Maturity

Speaktoit Assistant Screenshotsby Brent W. Hopkins, PCWorld

Speaktoit Assistant is an Android app that in many ways resembles Apple's Siri for iPhone 4S. It acts as a virtual assistant that can respond to voice commands and perform Web searches and other simple tasks. You can use Speaktoit Assistant to launch apps, find contacts, compose email or text messages, create calendar events, give directions, and more.

Speaktoit Assistant uses Google's voice transcription service to understand your spoken commands. The app lets you choose from among several iSpeech voices, all of which sound a bit more natural than Google's robotic-sounding text-to-speech (TTS) service. I ended up settling on a female voice with a British accent that I found quite pleasant and easy to understand.

The app has a fun feature that allows you to design a custom avatar for your assistant. The avatar doesn't do anything functional, but it does give the app a bit more personality and puts a face on screen to go along with the app's voice.

Speaktoit Assistant is easy to use: Simply press the onscreen microphone and tell the app what you'd like it to do. Like Siri, Speaktoit Assistant has a sassy personality and will occasionally offer somewhat snarky responses.

But even though Speaktoit Assistant is one of the best and most versatile voice-powered apps I've used, it had some hiccups and limitations. At times I had to repeat my commands multiple times or manually type them in, in order for Speaktoit Assistant to understand me. Also, the app could not read email or text messages aloud--a feature I had hoped would be included.

Still, overall, Speaktoit Assistant is a good voice-controlled app that supports a fair amount of integration with other Android apps. If you want a Siri-like app on your 'droid, this is one of your better options. Though Speaktoit Assistant doesn't work as a truly hands-free means to control your phone, it's a step in the right direction.

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