Text’n’Drive App for iPhone – Hands Free Email Message Reader

If you have the habit of texting while driving, chances are more that you may end up rear-ending another driver. In fact, lots of accidents happen every year because people mix texting and driving (like drink and drive). The Text’n’Drive app for iPhone attempts to help the iPhone users, in dealing with text messages and emails while they are on the wheel, without having to ever touch their iPhones. Text’n’Drive iPhone application is available as a free download from Apple iTunes.

Features

The Text’n’Drive app for iPhone has a very user friendly interface that loads up at a decent enough rate. Downloading and installing the application is also a quite easy and straightforward process.

The core functionality of the Text’n’Drive is to read email messages clearly, and let you reply to the same with your voice. In other words, the app translates your speech into verbal responses. However, for best results, you must speak clearly, taking time to enunciate each word properly, and don’t ever fragment your speech or attempt to compensate for punctuation. It is worth mentioning that at any point of the speech, you are not required to yell either. What you’ve dictated to the Text’n’Drive app, as reply to the emails is subsequently sent as plain voice files through the email service provider of your choice. As a matter of fact, the Text’n’Drive application is even smart enough to auto-detect when you’ve done with your speech, before auto-forwarding the email to the recipient with the voice file attached.

The Text’n’Drive iPhone application reads out the emails clearly and accurately in a synthetic voice. If you happen to miss any word in between, just hit the ‘re-read’ button to playback the word again. From a user perspective, the app is set to work best with AOL, Gmail, Hotmail and MobileMe at the moment. However, it is possible to integrate the app with other POP3 accounts, but after going through a multi-step set process, the details of which are given in the Text’n’Drive website. On the downside, iPhone Text’n’Drive app does not support Exchange emails at the moment.

Conclusion

Text’n’Drive app for iPhone is a very handy application that lets you read/reply to emails from your iPhone, without distracting your focus from the road. The app reads the emails clearly to you, and you can reply to the emails by simply dictating your text to the app. Text’n’Drive works best with short messages/replies even though it is practically possible to dictate pretty long emails as well using the app. Verdict: A must have app in your iPhone if you tend to text/email a lot while on the move.

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