Comments on: VSearch: Embedded Voice Mobile Local Search http://searchengineland.com/vsearch-embedded-voice-mobile-local-search-10515 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:39:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dave L http://searchengineland.com/vsearch-embedded-voice-mobile-local-search-10515/comment-page-1#comment-1180 Dave L Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:48:42 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/vsearch-embedded-voice-mobile-local-search-10515.php#comment-1180 From my own personal mobile search user experience, voice is definitely the key to user-friendliness and thus more usage. TellMe's voice to screen beta search seems to be a huge step in the right direction toward cracking the mobile local search code, and presumably as is the new VSearch product. I have to believe that Voice integration will be an essential component if Google, Yahoo!, MSN and Ask wish to maintain search leadership into mobile. Having said that, it will be interesting to see if and how the iPhone and the slew of inevitable copycat handsets change the mobile local search environment. My bet is that no matter what changes from the hardware side, the appearance and importance of Voice in mobile local search can only steadily increase. From my own personal mobile search user experience, voice is definitely the key to user-friendliness and thus more usage.

TellMe’s voice to screen beta search seems to be a huge step in the right direction toward cracking the mobile local search code, and presumably as is the new VSearch product.

I have to believe that Voice integration will be an essential component if Google, Yahoo!, MSN and Ask wish to maintain search leadership into mobile.

Having said that, it will be interesting to see if and how the iPhone and the slew of inevitable copycat handsets change the mobile local search environment. My bet is that no matter what changes from the hardware side, the appearance and importance of Voice in mobile local search can only steadily increase.

]]> By: gary price http://searchengineland.com/vsearch-embedded-voice-mobile-local-search-10515/comment-page-1#comment-1179 gary price Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:26:04 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/vsearch-embedded-voice-mobile-local-search-10515.php#comment-1179 If voice search and info retrieval is of interest to some of you, we recently posted a bunch of related items on ResourceShelf. <a href="http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/01/31/video-look-at-microsofts-speech-server/" rel="nofollow">http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/01/31/video-look-at-microsofts-speech-server/</a> You'll find: Video tour of Microsoft's Interactive Voice Response Technology <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=208891#208891" rel="nofollow">http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=208891#208891</a> Google’s Speech Recognition Guru Speaks During 15 Minute Podcast Interview. Also links to SimonSays, Promptu, MobileVoice, and others. <a href="http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/09/11/search-briefs-podcast-with-head-of-googles-speech-recognition-efforts/" rel="nofollow">http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/09/11/search-briefs-podcast-with-head-of-googles-speech-recognition-efforts/</a> Links to multimedia search resources like Nexidia (phoneme searching) and the Sun research project <a href="http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/01/05/a-quick-review-search-every-word-spoken-from-youtube-video-to-the-pbs-newshour-with-jim-lehrer/" rel="nofollow">http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/01/05/a-quick-review-search-every-word-spoken-from-youtube-video-to-the-pbs-newshour-with-jim-lehrer/</a> "Search Inside the Music" from Sun. <a href="http://research.sun.com/projects/dashboard.php?id=153" rel="nofollow">http://research.sun.com/projects/dashboard.php?id=153</a> A Look at Cellcasting/Mobilcasting <a href="http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/11/25/the-coming-age-of-the-cellcast-or-mobilcast/" rel="nofollow">http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/11/25/the-coming-age-of-the-cellcast-or-mobilcast/</a> If voice search and info retrieval is of interest to some of you, we recently posted a bunch of related items on ResourceShelf.
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/01/31/video-look-at-microsofts-speech-server/

You’ll find:
Video tour of Microsoft’s Interactive Voice Response Technology
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=208891#208891

Google’s Speech Recognition Guru Speaks During 15 Minute Podcast Interview.
Also links to SimonSays, Promptu, MobileVoice, and others.
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/09/11/search-briefs-podcast-with-head-of-googles-speech-recognition-efforts/

Links to multimedia search resources like Nexidia (phoneme searching) and the Sun research project
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/01/05/a-quick-review-search-every-word-spoken-from-youtube-video-to-the-pbs-newshour-with-jim-lehrer/

“Search Inside the Music” from Sun.
http://research.sun.com/projects/dashboard.php?id=153

A Look at Cellcasting/Mobilcasting
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/11/25/the-coming-age-of-the-cellcast-or-mobilcast/

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