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Now free applications are what we review the most, but I wanted to take a second and recognize a developer friend of the site, James Gramata. James has written some really good programs for Android as a single man development team. FireWallet is one of his most downloaded applications both the free and the paid. SpeakEasy Input is an application that James released today, and he asked us to take a look at the application and let him know what we thought of it.

SpeakEasy Input can be downloaded from the market here.

SpeakEasy Input is an application for Android that leverages Google's voice search services to write to your speech to the clipboard of the OS. You can then use it to paste into any message box you like. While Google Search and other voice features do translate your speech they are isolated to consuming the translation within their own application. SpeakEasy Input breaks that model and lets you put your speech anywhere, it does not matter which application you are in; the browser, Google chat, or whatever game you are using on your phone.

It is displayed in your notification bar, just pull down the notification bar and press the screen. You will get the Google search box and can chat away to get written text you can use to paste into the application.

Presets

On the main screen (when you click on the application from your applications menu) you can get to presets. Presets are basically a single word mapped to a sentence. For example, 'Busy' is mapped to 'Hey I'm busy I will call you later.'. So to put that text into your clipboard, all you would have to say to SpeakEasy Input is 'Busy'.

You can also add your own by clicking on the plus sign at the bottom. You then are able to create your own.