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CheapAir’s voice activated app makes booking flights as easy as talking about it. CheapAir’s new Voice Search app has been generation a buzz on the tech scene since it premiered this past week.

Specifically, the app allows travelers to book last-minute trips via iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad by calling on everyone’s favorite digitized personal assistant, Siri.

The way it works is as follows:

1. Type CheapAir.com in your App Store search (it’s free)

2. Once the app is installed, a big and green “Start Your Search” thing will appear on the screen, tap it

3. Right away, instructions indicating to “Click on Microphone to do a voice search” will appear on the screen, with an arrow pointing you to the microphone (this may sound complicated, but it’s set up so easy a toddler could figure this out)

4. Click on the mic and say something like, “New York to San Francisco, August 6, Three people” (the it defaults to one person unless you specify otherwise).

5. Hit “Done” and tap “Go,” at which point you will be digitally escorted to a screen showing various airlines and ticket prices for your destination.

6. Proceed to plan your trip! (The rest of the search is not voice activated)

Pros and Cons of App

This app is super easy… and its also tech savvy so you feel kind of hip with the times while using it.

However, the first con we have that it’s already kind of been done. Google’s voice search on the Android devices already retrieves flight-status information for ya. Sure, it doesn’t put flight options and booking information in the same screen the way CheapAir does, but the Google voice-activated search provides links to various websites including its own Google Flight Search, where travelers can search for prices, etc.

Another con to the app, as with most criticism of anything Siri related, is that someone with a thick accent may have trouble using it. It’s no secret that Siri has always had trouble with overall recognition of dialects, though Apple assures that “as more people use Siri and it’s exposed to more variations of a language, its overall recognition of dialects and accents will continue to improve.” For someone with two Israeli parents who both have thick accents, I can attest to the fact that it’s been taking Siri a while to catch on…

All in all, the new voice-activated CheapAir search app is impressive, and could provide for a very convenient tool for Apple junkies and travelers world-wide, (especially for the ones who, you know, don’t have an accent.)

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