Google Releases Voice Search In China For Nokia S60s
Nov 2, 2009 at 1:10pm ET by Greg Sterling
Google announced that it had released voice search for Mandarin Chinese for Nokia S60 phones. This is potentially huge -- if Google gets it right -- because of the massive population in China. It could also drive more search usage and frequency. Google trails Baidu on the PC but mobile represents an opportunity for Google to grow share in that largest of all internet markets.
Google now says it understands a range of English accents, and Mandarin although it doesn't yet get all accents in Mandarin. In addition, the capability will be coming soon to the Android and iPhone platforms in China. [...]
Filed in: Google: Mobile, Google: Outside US, Google: Voice Search
Google Voice Now Lets You Use Your Existing Phone Number
Oct 27, 2009 at 10:07am ET by Barry Schwartz
The Google Voice Blog announced that you can now use your existing phone number, with limited features, with Google Voice. Technically, I believe this is not considered porting your phone number, but it does allow you to use your existing number with Google Voice.
Google has created a nice chart showing the difference in features between using a Google Voice number or using your own number with Google Voice:
If you decide to use your existing number, make sure to read the FAQs and help documents carefully. Here is a video showing the various features you get with using your existin [...]
Filed in: Google: Voice Search
Report: ChaCha Voice Search Beats Google, Yahoo/Vlingo In Accuracy, Reliability
Jul 21, 2009 at 2:08pm ET by Greg Sterling
A new report finds that mobile search and answers service ChaCha beat Google and Yahoo's voice search tools in terms of overall accuracy and reliability across a range of query types in a controlled study. The study was conducted by Albright Communications/MSearchGroove in January of this year.
The report, which can be downloaded from the ChaCha site, was sponsored by ChaCha but the authors said, "While ChaCha sponsored the study, it was fully removed from the planning, testing, analysis, and reporting of this work." The methodology was very specific and relatively elaborate. I summarize it [...]
Filed in: Google: Mobile, Google: Voice Search, Microsoft: Bing 411, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Yahoo: Mobile & Go
Voice Search Now On Google Maps For Android
Jun 15, 2009 at 1:31pm ET by Matt McGee
Android OS phone users can now use Google's voice search tool inside of Google Maps. According to today's announcement, the tool recognizes English-language speakers with American, Australian, and British accents.
There are other improvements, too:
Transit and walking directions are available for more than 250 cities
Business listings have been upgraded to include store hours, prices, and ratings/reviews
Google Latitude had a location detection bug that's been fixed
A new "Updates" feature in Google Latitude makes it easier to communicate with friends
This update isn't an autom [...]
Filed in: Google: Maps & Local, Google: Voice Search
Yahoo Adds Voice Search To iPhone App
May 21, 2009 at 9:48am ET by Barry Schwartz
MobileCrunch noticed Yahoo has added voice search capabilities to their Yahoo One Search iPhone App. I spent a few minutes testing it out and I have to say, that is does an okay job. I didn't conduct enough tests to really compare it against Google's iPhone voice search feature. They are both different in how they work.
First let me show you Yahoo's voice search for a test on [who is barry schwartz]:
Step 1: Click on the "Press + Speak" button to activate voice search:
Step 2: Speak when button turns red and then tap it again when you are done talking:
Step 3: The button [...]
Filed in: Google: Voice Search, Search Features: Search By Voice, Yahoo: Mobile & Go, Yahoo: Search
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