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   * An AI (Artificial Intelligence) virtual assistant to chat with: there are already monsters like Google, Vlingo and Apple that have enough resources, people and money to create such wonderful applications.   * An AI (Artificial Intelligence) virtual assistant to chat with: there are already monsters like Google, Vlingo and Apple that have enough resources, people and money to create such wonderful applications.
   * A Text-To-Speech engine that make the phone speak: there are already great and good quality Text-To-Speech engines available on the market (like SVOX and Loquendo), that can be installed on the phone and used by Voice Control.   * A Text-To-Speech engine that make the phone speak: there are already great and good quality Text-To-Speech engines available on the market (like SVOX and Loquendo), that can be installed on the phone and used by Voice Control.
-  * A Voice-Recognition engine that transcribe what you say: there are already great Voice-Recognition engines available on the market shipped with other applications (like Google Voice Search and Vlingo), that can be installed on the phone and used by Voice Control.+  * A Voice-Recognition engine that transcribe what is said: there are already great Voice-Recognition engines available on the market shipped with other applications (like Google Voice Search and Vlingo), that can be installed on the phone and used by Voice Control.
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 Why Voice Control isn't free: Why Voice Control isn't free:
   * If it was free, it would never been completed. Voice Control has been started for a personal need (I usually need to use the phone while driving my scooter), and it would been abandoned after some week of works or at least after the first partial release. Making it a Paid Application,​ allows me to get a partial return of all the time spent working on it (that on December 2011 should amount about to 1000 hours of work for a total of exactly X lines of code).   * If it was free, it would never been completed. Voice Control has been started for a personal need (I usually need to use the phone while driving my scooter), and it would been abandoned after some week of works or at least after the first partial release. Making it a Paid Application,​ allows me to get a partial return of all the time spent working on it (that on December 2011 should amount about to 1000 hours of work for a total of exactly X lines of code).
   * It give to me enough motivation to continue to improve and support it.   * It give to me enough motivation to continue to improve and support it.
-  * This ensure that only interested users install it and request ​new features according to Voice Control main goal.+  * This ensure that only interested users install it and requests ​new features according to Voice Control main goal.
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