Automatic Dictation, A Siri Like Feature For Older iOS Devices.
Since the iPhone 4S has been launched a few months ago, it looks like every week we hear a rumor or a speculation about the release of new Siri port for the older generation iOS devices. Well, it was very unfair to leave out the rest of iOS family with these advanced features offered by Apple’s new personal assistant. Currently, many of the popular alternative features for Siri are nothing but only the Siri’s GUI. There are some genuine working hacks for Siri available but those are not legally allowed to be distributed to the masses.
“Automatic Dictation”, An Alternative For Siri
So, now we have to discuss the alternatives we have for Siri, at least until Apple finally allows Siri to be ported to the older devices. So, apparently all those users who doesn’t have an iPhone 4S are only left with some alternative apps. Well, these are not as much functional as Siri is but still they do the job. One of them is called Automatic Dictation and this Cydia tweak is recently released by a Hungarian developer named Arpad Goretity also known as H2CO3. The tweak is available at Cydia’s BigBoss repo. Basically tweaks lets users to access the Nuance Dragon Dictation’s iOS app with the help of Activator Tweak developed by Ryan Petrich.
Lacks Core Functionality At The Moment
We are reminding you again that the tweak is not a full alternative to Siri right now, as it currently lacks the real core functionality. The developer has also stated in the release notes that Automatic Dictation tweak offers Siri like functionality.
A Handy Tweak
Currently, you can download the Automatic Dictation tweak’s version 0.2 at Cydia. This version has the ability to begin dictation, users can also post directly to social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Users can also send the dictation with the help of messages app available in the tweak. It is a very handy tweak and for those who are still to enjoy the voice dictation feature as they cant afford the iPhone 4S, this the golden opportunity. Automatic Dictation can be downloaded from Cydia for free and the developer has also released is source code as well. Obviously you will need a jailbroken device to run this tweak.
