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Google. iPhone. Voice search. Awesome. (If it works.)
VentureBeat —
... As soon as tomorrow there may be a cool new application in Apple’s App Store from Google: Voice search. The app will apparently allow users to speak commands such as “Where’s the nearest Starbucks” into the iPhone and it will be sent to Google’s servers and come back with a search result, according to The New York Times. ...
Google Adds Searching by Voice to iPhone Software
textually.org —
Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the companys search software for the Apple iPhone. The New York Times reports. ...
Google iPhone App Already Lists Voice Function, but It’s Not There
iPhone Atlas —
As reported by the New York Times, Google’s iPhone application will soon get voice functionality, allowing users to speak a search term, which is then transmitted to Google’s servers, recognized (theoretically), then entered as a search term. Geez… is the iPhone’s virtual keyboard that bad?
According to the report:
“The sound is converted to a digital file and sent to Google’s servers, which try to determine the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine.
“The search results, ...
Breaking: Google Adding Free Voice Search to the iPhone [IPhone]
Gizmodo —
... Google has created an app for the iPhone that will give the handset advanced voice recognition, reports John Markoff from the NY Times. The app can answer location related questions (Finding the nearest Starbucks), give driving directions, respond to generic questions, and even search local data from the address book. ...
Google Adding Advanced Voice Search to the iPhone [IPhone]
Gizmodo —
... Google has created an app for the iPhone that will give the handset advanced voice recognition, reports John Markoff from the NY Times. The app can answer location related questions (Finding the nearest Starbucks), give driving directions, respond to generic questions, and even search local data from the address book. ...
Google to introduce “Searching by Voice” feature for iPhone
Unwired View —
... search engine.
And though a big shot like Google will be expected to outperform competitors in the category of voice-enabled mobile search, the NYT notes that Google’s system is still “far from perfect, and it can return queries that appear as gibberish.”
This, coupled with the new Google search results pages for iPhone will make for a very interesting experience. And the best part is, it’s all available for free.
Via New York Times
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Google Search by Voice coming to Apple iPhone
I4U News —
... query is sent to Google servers that try to understand what you said and run a search and display the results on your iPhone. The NY Times tested the new Google Search by voice and it seems to work better than the voice search interfaces of Microsoft and Yahoo. Typing on phones is a pain. If voice recognition is working well enough than this is just a great improvement in usability. The new Google Search version is expected to show up on iTunes today. More details on the NY Times . Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:01:20 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr ...
Google launches Voice Search for the iPhone
The Next Web —
Some time today Google will launch a Voice Search App for the iPhone. Check the iPhone App store now to see if it is ealready there. According to John Markoff over at the New York Times “Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the Apple iPhone.”
With the free app you will be able to ask Google any question you can think of, like “Where’s the nearest Starbucks?”, “How tall is Mount Everest?” or “What weather is it in Amsterdam, The Netherlands?”. The app will send your digitized audio to Google services where the sound is analyzed, translated, queried to the ...
Now You, Too, Can Look Silly Talking to Your iPhone
Mashable! —
... Hence, I’m skeptical about Google’s latest iPhone application: voice search. Instead of typing in a search phrase, you simply say it to the iPhone; “Where’s the nearest Starbucks?” is the example used by the New York Times, and it should return the results within seconds. The application is free, and should show up in Apple’s App Store sometime today. ...
Google to enable voice search on the iPhone
TG Daily - All News —
... - Google is expected to unveil a voice-based search capability later today - and use the iPhone to showcase the technology. The new service is built on top of an experimental voice-activated yellow pages telephony service called GOOG-411 that leverages voice input for the search of local businesses. The application is apparently part of a much broader technology initiative aimed at enriching services with advanced voice-recognition capabilities. John Markoff of The New York Times reports that Google will introduce iPhone application sometime today and allow users to perform ...
Google To Introduce Voice Search on iPhone, Hopefully It Will Work
Profy —
Have you ever thought about doing some really quick search on your cell phone when on the go to find some place or store nearby but thought it was too difficult (and not really quick) to type all the letters to get the answer to your quick question? I do believe the answer will be positive for many of us and now we have Google addressing this particular need on one particular phone - that is Apple’s iPhone.
New Your Times reports that Google has built an update to its search application for Apple iPhone that is promised to make its first appearance on Apple App Store for all the iPhone owners to download and start using as soon as this morning. A user of the new ...
Google iPhone App to Offer Search by Voice [Google]
Lifehacker —
[image] Google is expected to release a free iPhone application today that lets iPhone owners ask to find local businesses, get driving directions, ask basic search queries ("What's the capitol of Belgium?"), and displays them on-screen "within seconds on a fast wireless network," according to the New York Times . I don't see it in the iTunes app store yet; tell us in the comments if you do. [ ...
Google iPhone app will add advanced voice recognition
Obsessable News Feed —
... John Markoff of the New York Times reports that Google is adding voice recognition software to their search software for the ...
Google Brings Voice-Enabled Search to the iPhone
Phone Scoop - Latest News —
... asked are converted into digital files and sent to Google's servers for processing. Once processed, the text is sent to Google's regular search servers and the search results are then returned to the iPhone. It will also use GPS information to return results that are relevant to the user's location. Google competitors Microsoft and Yahoo already offer similar services via their TellMe and oneSearch applications. The application will be available through the iPhone Apps Store. more info at New York Times ...
iPhone Gets Voice-Powered Search From Google
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... to conduct searches with their voice rather than typing. Nice of Google to catch on to the voice-activated search craze. Microsoft and Yahoo have offered voice-enable search for some time. Microsoft through its TellMe service and Yahoo through its oneSearch service. Both work pretty well at converting speech into text and delivering relevant results. This is a feature that Google's services have lacked for too long. First to get Google's version of voice search is the iPhone. The New York Times reports that the application will be available through the iPhone Apps Store as ...
Google Voice Search Comes to Apple's iPhone, Not Android G1 First
Google Watch —
... Google programmers have made that possible, adding voice recognition technology to the company's search algorithm to make the iPhone even more appealing, according to the New York Times' John Markoff who wrote (subscriber wall): ...
Google voice search app for iPhone arriving shortly
AppleInsider —
... Published: 09:00 AM EST Google as early as today is expected to introduce a free application for the iPhone that lets you search for information, directions, or virtually anything else by speaking into the handset, eliminating need for the keyboard entirely. "The service can be used to get restaurant recommendations and driving directions, look up contacts in the iPhones address book or just settle arguments in bars," wrote the New York Times' John Markoff, who profiled Google's broad speech-recognition efforts while breaking word of the new offering. For instance, you ...
Google to bring Skynet to iPhone in voice recognition update
Infinite Loop —
... employed by companies like Google ever had enough time off to watch the Terminator trilogy? Companies may have the best of intentions when building artificial intelligence systems that assist with vocal queries from, say, an iPhone, but the rest of us know how this is going to end. Regardless of our impending doom, Google is set to announce an update to its search application that brings these very features to an iPhone near you. Snarky, half-dead film references aside, the New York Times brings news that Google is preparing to bring "sophisticated voice recognition ...
Google’s New Voice-Search App for iPhone
Screenwerk —
... Here’s the John Markoff NY Times’ piece and I’ve written up some thoughts at Local Mobile Search and Search Engine Land. It’s not yet available, though may be today, from the iTunes store.
More later after I have a chance to test it out.
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Google Search Will Hear You, If You Have an iPhone [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
... The source of the information is New York Times’ tech reporter John Markoff, who posts images of Google employees Vic Gundotra and Gummi Hafsteinsson posing with and using an iPhone running the new application. Users of the new app will be able to speak search terms, ask for directions using Google Local search, ask for restaurant recommendations based on reviews and proximity, and potentially do much more in future versions. Simple Google search functions like mathematical calculations are likely ...
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L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... -- Google offers voice recognition search for the iPhone. Ask a question, it will answer. Just don't ask how the G1 is doing compared to the iPhone. NYT ...
Google on the iPhone is all ears
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles —
... terms and even longer questions by voice. It's not a unique ability considering Yahoo is doing it with its recently released oneSearch with Voice product and Microsoft has its Tellme service. But Google claims to be better than its competitors because it can analyze huge amounts of data and return accurate results, even for questions that are more complicated than simple searches. A user can ask for the best pizza restaurants in Noe Valley and get accurate results, according to a story by the New York Times . A nice touch when you're in the app is that you can activate a voice ...
Google Gets Vocal with Its iPhone Search App
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech —
... Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews On Friday, Google was expected to unveil the second release of its mobile app for the iPhone. The software allows users to query Google outside of the mobile Safari Web browser, as well as search through contacts. But the big change in this release is the addition of voice recognition to the app, which lets you skip using the keyboard. According to the New York Times , Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make available as soon as Friday through its iTunes store, can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any ...
Google Is Taking Questions (Spoken, via iPhone)
iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone —
... Good read from NY Times about voice recognition in Google App. Let's hope voice recognition from Google is better offering compare to others. "Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to get computers to understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the Apple iPhone." [via NY Times]
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Google offers voice search on Apple iPhone
MacDailyNews —
... researcher at Carnegie Mellon University who has done pioneering work in voice recognition, said Google’s advantage in this field was the ability to store and analyze vast amounts of data. 'Whatever they introduce now, it will greatly increase in accuracy in three or six months,' he said," Markoff reports. "As with other Google products the service is freely available to consumers, and the company plans to eventually make it available for phones other than the iPhone." Full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Kevin P." for the heads up.] MacDailyNews Note: As of ...
Google is listening, and iPhone users are talking
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone According to the New York Times and the Google iPhone page, the big G is about to add voice recognition capabilities to its iPhone search app (iTunes link), with the new version showing up on the App Store any minute now. You'll be able to ask questions (the kind Google can answer, of course; someone else will have to tell you if those pants make you look fat) and get speedy search results returned from the web or your own address book.
The voice recordings from the application will be sent to ...
More Apple iPhone Search Weirdness, And Embarrassment For Google
TechCrunch —
... Google’s carefully orchestrated launch of their new voice-recognition search application for the iPhone took a dive this weekend. The application didn’t appear as promised, and Google took down the YouTube video demo’ing the product (although it’s still on the Google Channel YouTube page and embedded below). ...
Why Google's Voice-Search iPhone App Didn't Launch [Google]
Lifehacker —
... , 6:00 AM on Mon Nov 17 2008, 601 views [image] So, it turns out Google fully planned to release its search-by-voice iPhone app on Friday as noted by the New York Times and ...
Did Apple kill Google's voice search iPhone application?
TG Daily - All News —
... application that enables voice search queries and shows search results as text on the handset. The application was due for publication in the AppStore on Monday, but has not appeared so far. In fact, Google took down the application video and a dedicated mini-site. Since Google promised the app for last Friday, Apple's delay has made the search giant look somewhat silly. As powerful as Google may be, it may just be one of many iPhone software developers. When news of Google's new voice search application for the iPhone hit the ...
Google, iPhone and the Future of Machines That Listen
Bits —
How do you talk to a search engine? In Googlish, of course. Google’s new speech recognition service for the iPhone, which I wrote about last week and which was ...
Voice Search for Android
dailywireless.org —
... , will include voice-powered search. Users can simply talk into the application to have their queries transcribed into text. Google’s voice search application is currently available for the iPhone. ...
