From commands like, “Call Mom” to questions like, “What’s my purpose in life?”, people love to engage in the super savvy qualities that voice recognition products bring. Since the voice recognition technology market hit $1 billion in revenue in 2006, these high tech features can be seen in all the latest technological devices, from security systems, to smart phones to luxury cars. BusinessWeek states that voice control will soon “eliminate the collections of remote controls that litter living rooms.”

VoicePod is  a voice controlled home device that allows you to sync all of your electronics for luxury and convenience.  VoicePod is able to control room temperatures, change television channels, arm security systems, turn lights on and off along with several other commands. You can even set up nightly routine  settings that you activate by simply saying, “Good Night” to your VoicePod Mobile application.

Siri is among the most popular of voice recognition tools, available on the iPhone 4S.  Known for her witty responses, users can ask the iPhone application and discover that Siri is extremely intelligent and full of surprises. Siri assists iPhone users  with making phone calls, searching Google, sending text messages, receiving sports updates and other helpful information. When Siri emerged into the market, people  began to see the voice recognition feature as fun and entertaining along with its various benefits of convenience.

AirScan Mobile leads in innovative technologies for the workplace by empowering the organized professional to store and manage multiple documents across different platforms like DropBox, Facebook and Google Drive.  This mobile PDF scanner allows the user to scan documents, receipts and notes and share with a simple voice command.  Available in the Google Play Store and the App Store, AirScan Mobile provides convenience and mobility by converting your important papers to electronic format with ease.

Xbox Kinect  encourages consumers to use their bodies as the controller. The voice recognition feature takes this function a step further, making it simple for users to be truly controller-free.You can play games, watch videos, search the internet and use all of XBox’s awesome features using voice commands.  Xbox allows you to conveniently switch between features with commands like “Xbox Rewind”, “Xbox Open Tray”, or “Xbox Games”.

Google Glass comes from the latest technology from Google. With limited availability and exclusive testing, Google Glass sets the bar high in wearable technology. The premise of Google Glass is that the device is primarily hands free.  The user can communicate with the device using its voice recognition feature, by simply stating the desired command in natural language.

Vocaroo is an awesome application available on PC or mobile, where you can record your voice online, play it back and share it with friends and family using top platforms like Facebook, Gmail, DropBox, Twitter and several other mediums.

Google Now voice command is Siri’s counterpart for Android. Powered by Google, this application anticipates its users needs based on recent Google searches.  Use the voice command feature to get driving directions, research a phone number, find useful information and other hands-free actions.

After days, weeks or months writing code, designing a UI and testing an app just one last time, app promotion can often be left as an afterthought. Building the greatest app in the world, one that will revolutionize an industry or bring together the entire global community, is no longer good enough. That is only the first step (albeit a big one) on the path to app store success.

Marketing and promotion is often ignored, or at best stuck to the bottom of the list, in spite of the critical importance of getting the app noticed. In a study by App Promo, 52% of developers had no budget for promotion and spent under 5% of their time on marketing. It is probably no coincidence that two thirds of developed apps make less than $5000. The developers that had a marketing budget and a promotion strategy received significantly more revenue on average.

It is a well-known statistic that the iTunes app store has over a million apps, as does Google Play, and it is common sense to realize that a very small proportion of these apps will make any kind of impression on the hundreds of millions of potential customers available. It is absolutely essential to make a new app as visible as possible in the shortest possible time in order to gain the traction required to get a viral response and the tens or hundreds of thousands of downloads that are needed to make a significant profit. App developers need to be aware that the competition is intense and app promotion is the only way to make a dent in the market.

One excellent method of getting noticed by the crowds is to use the iTunes ranking system to get an app “above the fold” and in the faces of potential customers. The best way to achieve this is through reviews and ratings. Highly rated apps appear higher on the search results for both Apple and Google so it makes sense to pursue this avenue as much as possible.

There is a multitude of ways to achieve this. BestReviewApp.com is a portal that allows app developers to connect with real iOS and Android users and pay a small fee to have these users download the app, and review and rate it. Results are available within days and a boost in rankings and therefore views, downloads and revenue can happen literally overnight. With tens of thousands of registered iTunes and Android users, BestReviewApp.com has hit upon a unique, cost-effective and proven method of raising an app’s profile to stand out from the crowd and make a real impact on the overcrowded app market.

An app developer wants their product to be used, appreciated and, ideally, paid for. The only way this is going to happen is if it gets seen by enough of the right people. App promotion is a fundamental facet of the development process and should be treated as such.