StartTalking Hands-Free Text Messaging App for Android launched by AdelaVoice

AdelaVoice has launched StartTalking, the world's first smartphone application that lets motorists keep their eyes on the road and hands upon the wheel. StartTalking addresses the issue of distracted driving throughout the entire process of composing, sending and receiving text messages, removing the visual and physical distractions normally associated with text messaging.

StartTalking is different from any other solution because it is truly hands and eyes free, eliminating any touching or looking at the mobile phone. Today’s existing text messaging applications offer certain hands-free features, but ultimately require visual or physical interaction to initiate, compose, review, edit, or send text messages. StartTalking eliminates those interactions. In fact, StartTalking operates with the mobile phone’s display screen off, further reducing distractions while enhancing battery life.

StartTalking is entirely voice-controlled. Users simply speak commands, dictate messages and listen to messages without having to touch a single button or look at a screen. StartTalking users speak their phone’s pre-assigned name, which “wakes up” the handset and initiates a dialog through which the user dictates and sends text messages.

Currently in open beta, StartTalking works with smartphones running Android 2.0 or later and is now available for download from the Android Market or by using an Android phone’s browser to visit http://m.starttalking.com. Visitors using personal computers to the StartTalking website can also send an SMS download link to their Android phone. StartTalking works with wired headsets or the Android handset’s speakerphone function.

In addition to sending traditional text messages, StartTalking supports creating audio recordings in a user’s voice and sends them through AdelaVoice’s Short Voice Service (SVS) to any mobile smartphone. The recipient hears the message in the sender’s own voice. SVS messages represent a very personal way to extend text messaging and, by definition, are always 100 percent accurate.