VoiZapp's research labs have been very busy adding hands-free operation to our Aloud line of reading aloud apps. This technology is standard in Star Trek: remember how Spock or Kirk could start a conversation with the Enterprise's computer with by simply saying, "Computer?" Remember when Scottie tried that with an early MacPlus in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home? To our knowledge, no iOS app has cracked the code to do that yet. VoiZapp has, and we are feverishly incorporating this technology into our new reading aloud apps Reader Aloud and Later Aloud, both of which are slated to be released next month (considerably earlier than the 23rd century). Once we get them out, we will retrofit this voice-control technology into existing apps Friends Aloud and Tweets Aloud. When we're done, you will be able to control your VoiZapp apps via simple, intuitive voice commands -- Play | Read [Aloud], Pause | Stop [Reading], Skip [Forward | Reverse], Go Back | Review | Previous, etc. No voice training required, of course, nothing to memorize, and exceptional recognition accuracy. It just works.

We are adding our world-class voice command technology to the website/blog reading aloud apps first because we believe that iOS 5, when released in September, will incorporate full dictation-quality automated speech recognition (ASR) licensed from Nuance. Nuance's Dragon Dictate is the $6 billion gorilla in the room, so we hope and expect to use their technology to compose Facebook and/or Twitter posts, replies, and messages strictly via your voice. Our R&D plan then, subject as always to the vicissitudes of the market, remains to incorporate voice control first, to be closely followed by the addition of Nuance's voice dictation through VoiZapp's line of Aloud apps. It's going to be a busy summer here at VoiZapp.