Go To for Windows Phone 8, voice commands for your favorite destinations

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Go To is a new navigation app for our Windows Phone 8 devices that lets you look up addresses and create voice commands to generate travel directions to that address.

The app is in it's infancy but the foundation present in Go To's initial release is nice. The app supports both Nokia and Google maps with directions generated through the navigation apps installed on your Windows Phone (HERE,  NAVIGON, etc.).

The layout is simple, you have your map view with two control buttons at the bottom; your current location and a search button. Up under the three-dot menu you'll find access to the voice commands, a switch to go from Nokia and Google maps, access to the settings, and access to a help section.

When you find a location, tapping on the address banner will pull up an About screen that offers options to generate driving or transit directions, save the address in your voice commands, and pull up more information (through Nokia's HERE maps) on that address.

When you save an address to voice commands by default the voice command will be the street address but you can edit that to whatever fits. For example, if it's an address to a restaurant you can have the voice command be the name of the restaurant.

Once save you have three voice commands available through your Windows Phone's voice command feature (press/hold the Start button). You can say "Go to (name)" to send you to an options screen where you choose between driving or transit directions. You can also say "Go to (name) by car" to pull up Nokia Drive directions or "Go To (name) by transit" to pull up HERE maps and transit routes.  

Additionally, if you go into the app's settings you can create a default action for the "Go to (name)" command that will automatically launch driving directions or transit.

Initial impressions with Go To are nice and the ability to use voice commands to access saved destinations can come in handy. The app could use a little polishing which should come with future updates. According to the developer future improvements include an option to view saved locations as well as the map view, multiple language support (only supports English at the moment) and more dynamic voice commands.  Having the ability to pin locations to your Start Menu wouldn't hurt either.

Go To is a free app for your Windows Phone 8 device that you can find here in the Windows Phone Store.  Go To went live just a while ago and it may take some time before it pops up in the Store.

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Tags: Maps, Go To, Navigation, Windows Phone 8 apps, voice commands 5 4 36 0 Email this page Comments There are 18 comments. Sign in to comment sqlchicken says:

Just tried it and while a little cumbersome, it works well. Very cool app and something I thought would've been available natively.

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 at 10:18 am - 1 day ago Reply GreatDharmatma says:

Needs improvement but certainly a nice initiative. I wonder why Nokia did not provide this by default!

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 at 10:19 am - 1 day ago Reply QuincyMitchell says:

I'm the dev behind the app. Thanks for trying it out and am very interested in any feedback you have!

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 at 10:44 am - 1 day ago Reply frostieDE says:

Reading the article above it seems you can launch nokia drive(+) from your app? How do you accomplish that? ;-) 
Btw: is the app limited to certain regions? Here in Germany, I cannot search for places -- it ends up with an error :/

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 at 12:14 pm - 1 day ago Reply QuincyMitchell says:

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to reproduce that, because I can search in Germany just fine...however I am using English.

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 at 12:23 pm - 1 day ago Reply nbumbic says:

I cannot search in Serbia as well.
I get following  message - Network error
 
Did you limit it to some contries or is it something else_

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 at 7:36 pm - 1 day ago Reply QuincyMitchell says:

Thanks for letting me know, definitely unexpected. I'll look into it definitely!

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 at 9:10 pm - 1 day ago Reply Techblogger says:

Much respect Quincy. I'll be checking this one out for sure.

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 at 6:03 pm - 1 day ago Reply ptf237 says:

Awesome. Just what I was looking for!

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 at 10:47 am - 1 day ago Reply MethodGT says:

Thank you very much for this. It sounds awesome. I'll be downloading it now.

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 at 12:44 pm - 1 day ago Reply Ticomfreak says:

I think navigate to or navigate me to would be a better name...

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 at 1:15 pm - 1 day ago Reply how1ard says:

Very easy to use and handy, shame it doesn't work on my phone 920. Voice recog recognises the location and name I've added "Drive home" but doesn't launch Here Drive (as set as default in settings). No support feature which is a shame as I would have used this. 

Posted on Apr 7, 2013 at 5:13 am - 1 day ago Reply QuincyMitchell says:

Hi, I am not sure I understand. You should be able to say "go to home" if you've only typed "home" as the name of your saved place. Could you explain more?

sounds like you've typed "drive home" as the name. Therefore the voice command you have is "go to drive home"

Posted on Apr 7, 2013 at 12:28 pm - 17 hours ago Reply how1ard says:

Sorry. Yes i have saved home as "home". The app responds and repeats go to home. But that's all, maps don't open. Nothing.

Posted on Apr 7, 2013 at 4:18 pm - 14 hours ago Reply QuincyMitchell says:

Ah thanks, there are two bugs I uncovered. One is if you don't have HERE Drive installed. (plz install it). Second bug is handling the voice command while on the map view. Try the voice command from the start screen. Do either of those help? Did you encounter the app asking you to send an error report? If so, did you send it?

Posted on Apr 7, 2013 at 5:59 pm - 12 hours ago Reply how1ard says:

Hi Quincy. Thanks for the support. Here Drive is installed that's why I downloaded the app I use it a lot. All I'm getting from any screen (Here open or not, Go To open or not) is "Cannot find contact" after the instruction "Go to home". No error report appears.  

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Posted on Apr 7, 2013 at 7:42 am - 22 hours ago Reply how1ard says:

All sorted Quincy, working well, very cool. Thanks again! 

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