No more texting while driving: Hands free texting demoed on upcoming Nokia Windows Phones

The upcoming windows phone from Nokia keep presenting us with exciting apps. The recent one worth mentioning is the voice texting app. Based on the Microsoft's cloud-based voice recognition and text-to-speech service, known as TellMe, this feature will enable users to receive and send text messages verbally.

The system will obviously improve and get trained along with usage, but the positive side is that it will do so without straining the phone's available resources.

The demo of this voice texting service was given by Chris Weber, president of Nokia USA at the Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminars. According to Nokia Blog, Weber was quoted as saying that this app will be a game changer and that he was able to send 17 text messages while driving his son to school and on his way to work without touching the phone."

The Windows Team blog posted a sample conversation of what the video texting will appear like:

    WP: [music pauses]You have a text message from Cody Pardi. You can say read it or ignore.
    Me: Read it.
    WP: “When will you be home?” You can say reply, call or I’m done.
    Me: Reply.
    WP: Say your message.
    Me: “In about 20 minutes.”
    WP: [The phone transcribes and repeats the message] You can say send, try again, or I’m done.
    Me: Send. [music resumes]

Voice recognition will definitely be a keep application in the Windows Phone Mango devices.

Besides handsfree texting, this app can also be used for opening applications, making phone calls, redialing numbers, searching online, navigating the maps among a host of others. Microsoft brings quite all-in all integration to the Windows Phone platform, which is bound to give it a upper hand among its other competitors.

Check out Pocketnow’s preview of voice features: