FastTrains app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Capito Systems Ltd
First release : 25 May 2015
App size: 9.17 Mb
This app is a demonstration of how voice control and the use of free-form natural language can simplify and speed-up search, navigation and transacting in mobile apps.
This is a train ticketing simulation app, focusing on the top 75 UK mainline stations.
The app simulates the searching for train times, platform numbers, and purchasing train tickets for direct journeys between the UKs top 75 mainline stations (by passenger volume)
The app allows the seamless use of touch, text-based control, and voice control for search, navigation and transacting.
It is adept at understanding slang and is limited to English language only. Here are a few example phrases:
London Victoria to Brighton train times
Next train from Euston to Liverpool
How much is a day return from St. Pancras to Sheffield
Which platform for the next London to York service?
The app is context-aware, so users do not have to repeat themselves when navigating from one screen to another.