Idea for killer mobile app?

These are people who JUST DON'T GET IT. You see, texting is a completely different form of communication.

Already done. And successful enough to be acquired. Yet by no means 'killer'.<p>Rapid Messaging Service (RMS): <a href="http://www.heyanita.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.heyanita.com</a>

I think Jott already does it as a premium service-- but who wants to call a flippin phone number just to send a quick txt?! I've <i>heard</i> there are some people who swear by jott, but I think they are all old people because if you are halfway competent with a smartphone it just seems like a pain in the ass.<p>You could try to port <a href="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/pocketsphinx/" rel="nofollow">http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/pocketsphinx/</a> to the iphone...<p>Or even easier just stream the audio off to a sphinx-4 server and push the txt results back to the phone in near-realtime for visual confirmation/correction and sending. Very seamless for the end user and compensates for voice recognition sketchy.<p>It would be interesting to then run the text through some kind of txt-speak filter that would shrink the text. I'm always impressed by people who can cram a small novel into 140 characters.

Voice recognition would obv be very cool if it was instant and involed machine tralsnation so you could talk in english and on the other end it comes out in chinese(or whatever language you choose).<p>Also, some phones already have voice recognition, if minimal, right? You can say a name and the appropriate person is called.

So basically he thinks a killer idea is to 1. use a phone, 2. to do voice recognition, 3. to send message as text, 4. to recipient which somehow will get the same message read as if spoken originally.<p>So what he is saying that every phone should have voice recognition, voice regeneration and blah blah. Colour me stupid, but for this purpose, why not, you know, send a voiceclip over MMS or just make a damn call?<p>This is a hammer looking for a nail.