There is an app called Vlingo out there, but it's certainly no Serie. It will let you dictate texts and E-mails, and do very basic voice based web searches, but you can't search Wulfrem Alpha's knowledge base, have it do math problems, set reminders and control your calendar, set timers, or do many of the things Serie does like voice entry of addresses into GPS apps. The app store shows no entries for Vingo, so think the Apple rep got it wrong and was referring to Vlingo. Vlingo is nominally accessible, but it doesn't really read everything back verbally like Serie does. Two other voice apps are called Voice Action for around $6.00 and Vocall for around $4.00. Both have their issues. There are podcasts where you can hear demonstrations at applevis.com. My suggestion, learn to use the on screen keyboard. It's not that hard. And get an external bluetooth keyboard, and a notes app that will upload automatically to dropbox.

-----Original Message----- From: Christopher Gray
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 4:06 PM
To: Adaptive technology information and support.
Subject: Re: [ATI] Vingo and WordPress

For managing a blog, Wordpress is great. Creating is more problematic and you
will need sighted assistance if you care about the look-and-feel aspects of
the blog.

Chris

On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, peter altschul wrote:

Greetings:

I am finally hurtling into the 21st century and thinking of purchasing an iPad. Apparently, the most recent version scheduled to be released in ten days or so does not have SIRI, but an Apple representative suggested that I purchase a personal assistance app called Vingo which is supposed to do many - or perhaps more - stuff than Siri. Has anyone used this app, and if so, how well does it work?

Also, how accessible is WordPress for creating and managing a blog?

Many thanks, Peter


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