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

Google Voice Search & My Location Now On Blackberry

Mar 25, 2009 at 2:15pm ET by Matt McGee

Google has announced the addition of voice search and My Location on the Google Mobile App for Blackberry. The new Blackberry additions are features that have been available on the Google Mobile App for iPhone since November. The My Location feature lets you search without needing to input a city name or some other geographic modifier. Voice search is what it sounds like -- a way to search by speaking your query. Google had offered voice search as a separate download for its Google Maps Blackberry app last summer. They launched the Google Mobile App for Blackberry this past September. [...]

Filed in: Google: Mobile, Google: Voice Search, Search Features: Search By Voice

Google Brings Voice Search To The iPhone

Nov 14, 2008 at 2:09am ET by Matt McGee

The New York Times reports in Friday's newspaper that Google's iPhone app will be updated with voice search capability. The move should come as no surprise: The launch of Goog411 in 2007 brought immediate speculation that mobile voice search was on the way, and Google tells the Times that data collection from the Goog411 project helped create this new iPhone service. With the new Google iPhone app, you'll be able to speak your search query into the phone rather than having to type it out. The Times article explains what happens after you ask your question: "The sound is converted to a digi [...]

Filed in: Google: Mobile, Google: Voice Search, Search Features: Search By Voice, Top News

CallGenie and R.H. Donnelley Launch Local Voice Search

Sep 5, 2007 at 9:15am ET by Greg Sterling

Yellow pages publisher R.H. Donnelley (RHD), which recently acquired Business.com and owns search marketing firm LocalLaunch, is testing a new voice local mobile search product, 1-800-CallDex, in four U.S. markets: Denver, Phoenix, Spokane (WA) and Tucson. It offers a suite of services powered by speech and local mobile search enabler CallGenie, which is also behind similar services in Canada and with several U.S. partners including Verizon. CallGenie enables local category search via neighborhood, near an intersection or a landmark in addition to traditional "name and number" search. RHD, [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Features: Search By Voice

VSearch: Embedded Voice Mobile Local Search

Feb 14, 2007 at 9:33am ET by Greg Sterling

Voice technology provider VoiceSignal and directory services company INFONXX are launching an "embedded" voice-driven local search product for mobile phones called "VSearch." Available starting in March, the two companies described the service in their announcement this morning: VoiceSignal will provide the speech recognition and application software and INFONXX will provide content and search support. The product will deliver to consumers a wide range of innovative information services including access to traffic, weather information, cinema times, stock quotes, horoscopes and sports scores [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Features: Search By Voice

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