voCal Voice Calorie Counter+

For dieters who can approximate food item calories or points, this voice food diary and calorie counter app is fast to use which makes you more likely to record all your food items each day.

This app usually requires an active wifi or mobile internet connection for Google Speech recognition to work best.

NOTE: On some phones (Samsung for instance) if you get an error message you may have to set up TEXT TO SPEECH under Settings | Language & Input
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To get started you first have to train the food diary with the number of calories for each food item you eat as you eat it.

(1) launch the app
(2) say a food item you've just eaten including estimated calories/points
(i.e. BANANA 100 POINTS or BANANA 2 POINTS)
--OR-- just say the food name and manually enter the calorie/points amount and press the OK button
(3) press the Orange + button to add more food or tap on the screen to exit

Once the food item calories are entered, in the future you can just say the food name without the word CALORIES/POINTS. Once you have trained the app you simply can do this:

1) launch the food diary
2) say the food name
3) enter a new value, cancel or accept the guessed amount
4) tap the food diary screen to exit

You can also bulk enter foods by separating them with the word PLUS:
i.e. "banana PLUS chocolate pudding PLUS applesauce"

Other voice commands include:

HELP to display current list of available commands

TARGET to enter in daily calorie/point goal

IDEAL to set ideal weight for weight graph

MARK
CLEAR to mark/unmark healthy food items (i.e. fruits and veggies) -- you can also toggle foods by tapping to the left of the food name on the calories on today's food diary

SPEECH ON or SPEECH OFF to turn voice announcement of remaining points on /off (or tap the speaker icon)

QUIT to exit

SHOW to display today's diary (tap screen to exit)

REMOVE LAST to remove last food entry (or tap at the bottom of the screen)

RECORD to record today's weight and show graph

NOTES to view/edit simple journal

SEARCH or SEARCH to launch browser to look up calories and other diet info on the web. You can also tap the magnifying glass at the top of the screen for other Web options

HISTORY to view past days diaries and show most frequent foods (tap screen to quit)

REMIND to set personal reminder message banner

DISPLAY to show graphs of weight, daily calories/pts or daily item counts (tap screen to quit)

ANALYZE to run an analysis of which foods you tend to eat on days when you overshoot or undershoot your target (needs a couple of weeks, preferably months, of data first )

RESET to completely clear user settings, weight log and food diary ***USE CAREFULLY***

You can also select many of the commands from the menu button in the upper right hand corner.

TIPS:
--- speak slowly and clearly
--- try to use simple foodnames as much as possible
--- saying ONE HUNDRED CALORIES works better than saying A HUNDRED CALORIES
--- approximate your calories to the nearest 50 or 100 calories if you don't know an exact amount
--- some slower phones turning off the speech announcement using SPEECH OFF will sometimes improve performance. Also changing your speech to text voice (from English(US) to English(UK) for example) may also improve performance
--- you can say "some" or "half of a" for items that you aren't eating a whole serving of.. i.e. "half of a banana" "some peanuts"
-- see demo videos for more tips