Cheers
Anurag Bansal

Sean from Dial2Do here. First off – thanks for a great article – we really appreciate it!

As for you comments – let me make brief comments on them here.

1. When I call, it might give me some suggestions to start with.

We try to strike a balance between being too “wordy” and getting out of your way so that you can get what you want to get done, done. It’s likely that down the line – we’ll offer you some settings to control the verbosity yourself.

2. The call might start with a greeting. (not necessarily though.)

I’d answer this as above. Some new users may like this, and then after a while, they want the service to “just shut up and get out of their way” . So again – probably a setting.

3. There should be the ability to add more phone numbers to call from.

Yep! Totally agree. Working on it.

4. The speech recognition could have been better.

This is a constant focus for us – to keep improving the speech recognition.

5. While using it for blogging, it doesn’t ask for Title, just starts with the post content.

Yep – we decided to omit the title request for now, and just use the first few words of what you say as the title. Once again, we did this to simplify the dialogue for the user and not have the experience be like “20 questions” which is frustrating. For “power bloggers” though, they may like this.

6. As soon as you end speaking, it says that your task is done. Instead it could ask, if you want to add something more. (Would be beneficial for writing long blog post or emails.)

We are experimenting with a “confirm” step after you finish – for example, a “send it” question – allowing you to cancel if you’re not happy. So hopefully you’ll see that soon

7. It is available for more countries, specially for India.

We’re always adding new numbers and new countries – we’ve some new areas ready in the next month or so. Will check if we can support India at that time.

That’s it – hope the comments are helpful!

Cheers, Sean