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VentureBeat: Let there be voice! Google Voice Search for iPhone launches
ReadWriteWeb: Google Mobile App Update With Voice Recognition Finally Available - And it Works
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0: A conversation with my iPhone
Let there be voice! Google Voice Search for iPhone launches
VentureBeat —
Better late than never right? Despite still not being listed on Google’s App Store page, the update to Google Search app, the one containing voice search, is there. Simply click the “Get App” button on this page (within iTunes) and you’ll be able to get it (even if you have the previous version installed).
I’ve been testing it out the past few minutes. While finding tricky words like “parislemon” (the name of my personal blog) doesn’t exactly work (it looked for Paris, London — understandable), using a phrase like “where is sushi?” work beautifully. After a few seconds of ...
Google Mobile App Update With Voice Recognition Finally Available - And it Works
ReadWriteWeb —
Google's highly anticipated update of its Google Mobile App for the iPhone (iTunes link) finally arrived in the App Store this afternoon. The app now uses voice recognition to translate voice commands into search queries. The new version also gives you easy access to all your other Google apps, though the star of this update is obviously the voice recognition, which, in our tests, was amazingly accurate.
Note: the description in iTunes has not been updated yet, but if you follow this link, you can just download and install the new version.
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A conversation with my iPhone
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
Google voice search, the most eagerly anticipated improvement to the iPhone since 3G, finally showed up late Monday.
For readers who haven’t been following this drama, Google (GOOG) on Friday launched a media blitz for this hot new feature, which lets you search the Web by simply speaking into your phone. But for reasons ...
Five Technologies Tim O'Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0
ReadWriteWeb —
Tim O'Reilly, co-founder of the Web 2.0 Conference, gave a short address on the 5th anniversary of that event at tonight's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and offered some thoughts on what's going to come next. He discussed five applications that he believes point the way.
Two themes stood out: sensors will surpass humans in front of their keyboards as the primary data source on the web and Moore's Law will need to be applied to humanity's greatest problems.
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It's time for the Web to get smarter, O'Reilly said. Having just become a grandfather, he drew a parallel between the evolution of the web and human ...
