Nearspeak 1.0.0.0

Description:

Record voice messages and store them on Near Field Communication (NFC) tags! Leave a message for your partner, a reminder for yourself, or create a public social experiment.

As an optional premium feature, NearSpeak automatically translates your spoken messages to different languages.

Anyone who taps the NFC tags with a Windows Phone 8 device will then be able to listen to the phone speaking your messages.

How does it work?

NearSpeak uses text recognition when listening to you, in order to convert your voice to text – NFC tags do not have enough memory to store an MP3 file of your recording, as the typical tag size is just a couple of bytes.

After recording your voice message, NearSpeak can optionally translate your message. For example, you can record your message in English and listen to it in Japanese! Purchase Translation Packs within the app to enable this premium feature.

Finally, just tap an NFC tag to write your message. The tag contents are associated with the NearSpeak app – tap the tag and NearSpeak will automatically launch and read out your message. In case the tag reading phone doesn’t have NearSpeak installed yet, the user is sent to the Windows Phone Store to download the free NearSpeak app.

What is NFC?

Near Field Communication is a feature of your phone that allows communicating between two devices in close proximity, or between your phone and a special sticker, also called NFC tag. NearSpeak writes your voice messages to NFC tags; other phones that tap the tag later on will read the stored voice message.

You can order any kind of supported NFC tag from online stores for use with the app. Make sure it’s a standardized NFC Forum Type 1 – 4 tag or a Mifare tag. For Windows Phone to write to the tag, it needs to be NDEF formatted (= not empty) and not encrypted or otherwise secured.