Speaktoit Assistant and Vlingo- Free Siri-Like Apps for Android

If you are looking for a free Siri alternative for your android device, you may consider Vlingo virtual assistant or Speaktoit assistant. The Apple’s Siri app is yet another triggering point of Apple-Android battle. It is quite notable that there are free Siri-like apps already available free in the android market. You can easily make use of this great app by simply selecting the right one for your device.

When iPhone 4S kick started a new era with the introduction of the personal assistant “Siri”, Android arena came up with a multitude of decent voice assistants to enjoy the most out of your android phones.

Hope you know much about Siri and how it works. It answers all your questions intelligently just like a human being and when you ask weird questions, Siri gives funny replies! This app was one of the major factor behind the success of iPhone 4S in the smartphone marketplace. But without any doubt we can say that it was a modified version and copy of the Google Voice. Even though it lack the ability to answer your questions, it lets you text and place phone calls using your own voice.

Free Siri-Like Apps for Android

Speaktoit is a free virtual assistant for your android phone which  helps you to find information, answer your questions, connect you with different web services and launch apps. You can also make it do simple math calculations.

What sets this virtual assistant app apart is that, besides information and humor, it explicitly offers both voice customization and avatar.

This app is still in the beta phase and we can expect more functions in the future. The interesting part is that the app allows you to select from a multitude of assistants which includes  old professor, blonde girl, handsome agent or brunette girl. You can talk to your assistant as if human and it avoids the  hassles of remembering commands.

Using text box, you can simply type to it and it will answer  questions with different facial expressions! But the only drawback is that you will need to have an internet connection to make it work!

Example: How to use Vlingo virtual assistant

Connect with friends and family…

• “Where are my cousins?”

• “Update Facebook status; Headed to Alaska for the weekend!”

• “Call Dad”

• “Text John; Want to see a movie tonight?”

• “Email Smith; Subject, Wait for me; Message, John, I’ll be back soon, wait 10 minutes for me.”

Find things to do and business

“Call mechanic”

“Find a Chinese restaurant”

Other than these two free android apps for voice recognition, you can go for apps like ‘Edwin’ or ‘Iris’.