appscout.com - 11/19/2008
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Developers have been touting voice recognition as the future of mobile apps for a few years now. Various hurdles have stood in the way of large-scale adoption, though: For one thing, the technology was often not up to the standards of many consumers. For another, the concept of talking at a ...
googlemobile.blogspot.com - 11/14/2008
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googlemobile.blogspot.com —
The new Google Mobile App for iPhone makes
it possible for you to do a Google web...
search using only your voice. Just hold the phone to your ear, wait for the beep, and say what you're looking for. That's it. Just talk. Once the App is on, you don't ...
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Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Mobile App for ...
daringfireball.net - 11/20/2008
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daringfireball.net —
Google’s just-released and much-publicized update to their Google
Mobile iPhone app features some very clever interaction design...
for the voice search feature. There is an on-screen button you can tap to initiate a voice search manually, but, as ...
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★ Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs
googlemobile.blogspot.com - 11/19/2008
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googlemobile.blogspot.com —
You asked for it, so here it is.
We're happy to announce that in the latest update...
to Google Sync for BlackBerry , we've added two-way contacts synchronization. This new functionality will enable you to sync your handheld's built-in address book with ...
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Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Sync for BlackBerry: ...
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Google’s iPhone Voice Search App Reviewed
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... App, just to see how well the new Voice Search works. Their first impressions of the new app are good, as they say that it is “easy, quick, and intuitive.”
The new app is so easy to use, all u need to do is say what you wish to search for and the software will do the rest. Although searches come out spot on most of the time, those with an accent will have a bit of trouble. I come from London, so the software had a hard time trying to come up with the correct results.
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... am | Categorized as Quoted “I’ve got a traditional Kentish accent and the thing kept on spitting back ridiculous things. I asked it to find my nearest pizza take away and it came back with something about volcanoes. I asked it to find my nearest pub and it gave me a link to some kind of weird dating Web site. I’ll have to try to put on my best American accent to get it to work.” – Roger Ellinson from southeastern England, one of many British residents to report that Google’s new voice-search feature for the iPhone has difficulty understanding their ...
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