Vlingo is excited to launch today the latest feature of its Vlingo for BlackBerry product.
Version 4.5 of Vlingo, offers a new, free feature that gives you more “hands-free” control of your BlackBerry® smartphones. SafeReader, a free feature available immediately provides drivers with a safer, easier way to consume incoming text and email messages.
No more fumbling to retrieve and read messages while on the road, SafeReader reads them aloud so you never have to take your eyes off of the road or hands off of the wheel.
Check out how it works in this video!
Vlingo 4.5 for BlackBerry smartphones with SafeReader can be downloaded for free on BlackBerry App World™ (www.blackberry.com/appworld) or directly from Vlingo (www.vlingo.com).
We will be rolling this out to iPhone, Nokia, Windows Mobile and Android phones later this year!
Erin Keleher, Senior Marketing Communications Manager, Vlingo
Just downloaded. "sounds" great! Perfect addition to Vlingo. Still needs ability to control verbose reading of HTML in received messages.
Great product. I would suggest that there be a way to stop the reading of an e-mail before it gets to 30 words, such as hitting the bluetooth's button
Update for others on SafeReader. Vlingo support tells me the problem where it reads all the html code in a message is a bug. To be fixed in future they said. Bottom line, SafeReader is mostly useless until they do. You'll get to hear that a new message has arrived, who it's from and the subject but that's all you'll get.
Here's hoping they can get this fixed soon.
I find the same problem with SafeReader not being able to translate html messages. It is so distracting that I have stopped using it and switched to DriveSafe.ly Pro; which while not allowing you to respond at least provides up to 250 words including html.