Google: Voice Search

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Mon 8 Feb 2010

Google Building Instant Translator Companion

Posted by Admin under Google: Mobile, Google: Translate, Google: Voice Search, Latest Info

Google leaps language barrier with translator phone from The Times Online reports Google is working on a new tool that would bring instant translation to people.
It appears that Google is a couple years away from this coming but they would build on their existing Google Translate and Google Voice features to create an instant translator. [...]

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Mon 2 Nov 2009

Google Releases Voice Search In China For Nokia S60s

Posted by Admin under Google: Mobile, Google: Outside US, Google: Voice Search, Latest Info

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 [...]

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Tue 27 Oct 2009

Google Voice Now Let’s You Use Your Existing Phone Number

Posted by Admin under Google: Voice Search, Latest Info

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 [...]

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Tue 21 Jul 2009

Report: ChaCha Voice Search Beats Google, Yahoo/Vlingo In Accuracy, Reliability

Posted by Admin under Google: Mobile, Google: Voice Search, Latest Info, Microsoft: Tellme, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Yahoo: Mobile & Go

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 [...]

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Mon 15 Jun 2009

Voice Search Now On Google Maps For Android

Posted by Admin under Google: Maps & Local, Google: Voice Search, Latest Info

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 [...]

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Thu 21 May 2009

Yahoo Adds Voice Search To iPhone App

Posted by Admin under Google: Voice Search, Latest Info, Search Features: Search By Voice, Yahoo: Mobile & Go, Yahoo: Search

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 [...]

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Wed 25 Mar 2009

Google Voice Search & My Location Now On Blackberry

Posted by Admin under Google: Mobile, Google: Voice Search, Latest Info, Search Features: Search By Voice

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. [...]

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Tue 18 Nov 2008

Video: Google Mobile iPhone App With Voice

Posted by Admin under Google: Mobile, Google: Voice Search, Latest Info

The Google Mobile Blog announced that the Google Mobile iPhone App, now with voice search, is finally live as an update in the iTunes App store. So I downloaded this morning and decided to offer you a video demonstration of how it works.
Before showing you that, let me link you to some [...]

 

Sat 15 Nov 2008

Eagerly Awaiting Google’s Voice Search For The iPhone

Posted by Admin under Google: Mobile, Google: Voice Search, Latest Info

Yesterday arguably the top tech story of the day was Google’s introduction of voice search for its iPhone app. As of this morning the updated app still isn’t available in the iTunes store (that’s not Google’s fault). I spoke yesterday afternoon with Google’s Mike Cohen…

 

Thu 13 Nov 2008

Google Brings Voice Search To The iPhone

Posted by Admin under Google: Mobile, Google: Voice Search, Latest Info, Search Features: Search By Voice

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…