Thread: Edwin (Android App)

I've been fiddling with this Android app called Edwin lately. It is absolutely amazing and by far the best app for Android I've encountered. I'm so pumped about it I've been flooding the dev's inbox with suggestions on pretty much a daily basis.



It's basically a voice controlled information resource and command executer. With the latest update it now searches Wolfram Alpha as well. You can pretty much ask it ANYTHING you like now and it will find it - from the current time, the weather in London, "who won the 1998 AFL grand final?" all the way to complex requests like "what was the average temperature in Adelaide South Australia in July 2008?". The accuracy is pretty amazing, although sometimes you have to readjust your natural sentence structure to be assured the answer you want. Either way it either responds verbally or via it's various source pages (Wolfram, Google, etc). I love being able to say stuff like "map nearest supermarket" and it automatically marks them in google maps. Used in combination with Brut, you can be from voice searching to hearing turn-by-turn nav in a matter of seconds.

I actually used it for the first time practically today to do a voice google search on an Excel spreadsheet problem my boss was having.

They've also added calculation which I was fiddling with today. You can even use percentage and square root queries as well as do calculations with varying measurement units (ie. "what is thirty kilometes minus twelve miles"). It translates from English into four different languages. You can also control the hardware of your phone using it (ie. "disable bluetooth" turns off bluetooth).

I said to the dev the other day that this is an app that people will buy an Android phone just to have. It's just that good. So if you've got Android, get it.

Maybe offer suggestions here and I'll shoot the link for this topic off to the team.

Oh, did I mention it will spell out and give you the definition of any English word? So awesome.

Check out the vid:

Just tried 3kms minus 1 mile. Got it right. Awesome. Adding Wolfram is really smashing it up.

We're in the freaking future!

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now to hook it up to my computer wire it to my lights and electricals through the house just like the show Eureka. Tho it may not cook dinner but it doesnt have to yet. its pretty good.

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OK. Rewrote article. Must have been drunk or something.

I asked it the meaning of life and it told me 42.

I actually asked "what is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow"... it forwarded me to Wolfram which basically said that even if I could name which of the 47 species of African swallow I was referring to, there are still too many variables. Then it credited the original lines to Monty Python. So cool.