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hi everyone this is Changmin and today we're gonna take a look at two voice-command applications that come with the Samsung intrepid on Sprint's wireless network the first is voice command which is the vault by Microsoft and has been around almost as long as the platform has been around and the second is tell me which is made by a Microsoft subsidiary and is also pre-loaded on this device so first we're going to take a look at voice command and what it does and then we're going to take a look at tell me and evaluate which one is better in certain scenarios so let's go ahead and take a look at voice command voice command allows you to do a number of things we're going to run through the features by groups the first group of features that we're going to run through our system statuses and notifications so voice command actually speaks out those notifications and statuses to you such as battery strength signal strength and then you can also set the ringer volume so let's go ahead and take a look at those what is my battery strength that ringer to medium you can also ask it for the time your next appointments and also you can open applications as well what is the time what is the date what is my next appointment or in Excel mobile you can also use voice commands you call contacts by telling it to call and then stating the contact name or to dial a number dial three one zero five five five one two one two Ansel voice command will also announce incoming calls and read your incoming text and email settings based on your own personal preferences as well so you can set it to only read high-priority messages so you can set it to either read all your messages or only the high priority one and what do you know we have actually a text message that came in so here John Smith call or if texted us and then it read the text message to us you don't even have to look at your phone the next features that we're going to take a look at do with media so you can actually tell it to open Windows Media Player play your tracks by album genre or artist so let's go ahead and take a look at some of those play you to so here you to is the artist and then you can also say play and then the album name or the genre so that's some of the features of voice command there are a lot of other features that we didn't cover today but this is just a brief overview of that so let's go ahead and take a look at tell me we received a message that was read aloud by voice command so let's go ahead and try and reply to that would tell me because voice command doesn't allow you to actually reply text John Smith does take a while to think and then you can tap the left soft button and speak in your message running late to the meeting we'll see you there that will do and then it will send a message for you you can also use Thome to actually call your contacts as well or dial a number so let's go ahead and try that call John Smith and it will ask you if you have more than one numbers say for that contact which number to use tell me will actually also allow you to search the internet and pull up location-based search results if your device has a built-in GPS so let's go ahead and take a look at that we're going to search for the nearest Starbucks to where I am and see what results it pulls up Starbucks Starbucks and then it actually pulls up with being mobile what your results are let's see if it understands and can search for pocket now pocket now yes I didn't understand that one but the main difference between tell me and voice command is that voice command actually allows you to navigate more of your phone by allowing you to open applications check system statuses and it will read email and text messages to you as well as announce incoming calls tell me on the other hand allows you to use your phone without your hands such as search the internet and pull up location-based search results compose text messages and also make calls like voice command voice command actually is a native application that resides on your phone it doesn't require a constant internet connection whereas Thome does require you to be connected to the Internet and those are some of the major differences let's go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and call this phone from another phone and see how voice command actually announces the incoming call so voice command Ashleigh announces the name of the caller as well as the location number so here at sighs call from John Smith at home so that's a quick look at voice command and tell me and this is Chang Winn thanks for watching