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hey guys this is adam lane with pocketnow.com and we are going to take a quick look well maybe a closer look at the speech interface on windows phone mango let's check it out first off one of the really good changes for windows on mangoes that you can now use the speech interface with a Bluetooth headset previously you could only use the call command with Bluetooth all the other commands you had to do through the speaker through the microphone on the device so that was kind of pain so here it is you hold down the start button and the first time you do it you're going to get this little help window this is what can I say subsequent ones will go straight to the listening mode so this is just a quick little hint as to what kind of commands you can use here so let's try open open table starting open table so that's a app launching interface let's go back and there's a little ? here this will give you more information about what you can say so here's the call command you can do all this call voicemail redial is good command to have and also nice thing is call Alex on speakerphone so you can go straight to speakerphone if you want there here's fine this is going to do bean searches so we can try that open will open different types of apps on your phone so you can just say the name of the app open such and such and even go to settings the text command is really good so this is something you can really easily do from your bluetooth headset if you want to text somebody here's some more options while you're on a call you can call another person or press numbers the other cool features are saving speed dial and turn call forwarding on and off so let's try a couple of these find find what you're looking for with Bing try saying find coffee in Seattle if you want to write to his area I got another phone over here so let's use some interactive speech interface stuff here text Adam Adam for some point or Adam lean Adam lean texting not only say your message how are you doing how are you doing you can say send more try again send so that should send a text message to the other phone message from 14 0 42 190 979 you can say read it or ignore read it how are you doing you can say reply call or I'm done call calling and 14 0 for 2 19 09 79 now we'll be able to hear the caller ID so it's telling me who's calling it's pretty nice so there's our Colin texting with no hands hands-free completely there the messaging also works if you're receiving instant messages from facebook or windows live messenger so those will show up the same way and ask you if you want to read them so that's pretty nice let's show a couple other features find it wither searching for weather and there's our weather that's pretty good find movies searching for movies there we go straight to the movies pretty good but it doesn't actually tell me doesn't talk back and tell me what the movies are one that so there are still a few things missing from the speech interface we don't have any way to set a destination in the maps program for navigation we don't have any way to control the media player like we did back in Windows Mobile 2003 or it could save play stones oh and the music will start playing so there's other things missing is the calendar integration I can tax ask it what my next appointment is that feature is still not there again something when does mobile 2003 could do but the instant messaging one is really nice so they're trying to make up for it anyway that's a good look at your speech interface on windows phone mango pretty nice hope you enjoyed this video give us a thumbs up if you did that's it for that