Voice Butler for Windows Phone 8; A personal assistant app for everything from checking the weather to snapping a photo

Voice Butler is a fairly uncomplicated phonation control app for your Windows Phone that volition assist you practise a wide range of tasks that includes checking the weather condition and set up alarms. Information technology'll fifty-fifty permit y'all accept a photographusing a self-timer.

The app itself is more or less a help directory and on/off switches for alarms and timers you gear up. While there's non much window dressing for Voice Butler it does accept a healthy range of vocalisation commands that can be initiated with or without the app open.

If you're looking for a voice command app for your Windows Phone 8 device, Voice Butler is one to consider.

Once more, not much to Vox Butler as far equally the app layout is concerned. You have a Help Page detailing the various commands and Alarm, Timer and Reminder Pages that list alarms, timers and reminders you generate with the Butler.

Commands include everything from taking a photo (or photos) on a timer to turning on the flashlight to checking your battery status. You can also launch settings ("Butler Bluetooth") and set up appointments.

Just press/hold the Windows Central to initiate the voice command prompt. Then precede your control with "Butler". Then to have a photo in 15 seconds you would say "Butler take a photo in fifteen seconds".

And you don't have to exist in the Vocalization Butler app to use these commands. Launching the Windows Telephone voice prompt when you lot are out of the Voice Butler should yield the same results past preceding your command with "Butler".

How does Voice Butler work in real life? Not too shabby. I did have better success using the "Butler" commands with the app open though. When the app was closed, I often concluded up initiating a Bing search for my vocalism control.

There is one restriction on language support. English language must be set as the speech language in your Windows Phone's settings. The general language and region tin be prepare differently just for now, English is the just supported speech linguistic communication.

All in all, Vocalisation Butler is a nice option to consider if you lot're looking for a vocalism control app. Information technology's not as polished in advent every bit similar apps but I'1000 non certain how important that is in a voice control app. I like the photo commands and the command to turn on your camera light. That could come in handy for the times you forget to on the porch lite.

The cracking thing nigh it all is that Voice Butler is a complimentary app for our Windows Phone 8 device. You tin give it a try and if it'southward not your cup of tea, you lot won't exist out much. You tin can notice Voice Butler hither in the Windows Phone Store.

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