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Google released voice search app for iPhone

Posted on 14.11.2008 at 16:16 in Tech News by Martin

Google is finally catching up to competitors Microsoft and Yahoo for once. It is rolling out a new application for the iPhone that allows users 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 early as today, though that is not confirmed by Google or Apple. The Times notes that, “The Google system is far from perfect, and it can return queries that appear as gibberish. Google executives declined to estimate how often the service gets it right, but they said they believed it was easily accurate enough to be useful to people who wanted to avoid tapping out their queries on the iPhone’s touch-screen keyboard.” The application will be free for iPhone users.

Source: InfoWeek

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  1. B3££££3
    November 14th, 2008 | 16:23

    safeee

  2. Wei
    November 14th, 2008 | 16:24

    Cool.

  3. joker
    November 14th, 2008 | 16:54

    “Google is finally catching up to competitors Microsoft and Yahoo for once.”

    Good one!

  4. Socrates
    November 14th, 2008 | 16:55

    Nice…I really like that idea better than having to use the index finger. Us Americans get smarter and smarter and because of it we get lazier and lazier that’s the reward people!

  5. reed
    November 14th, 2008 | 17:22

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    http://rapidshare.com/files/163733397/012233342.zip

  6. Pegasus
    November 14th, 2008 | 17:44

    “Us Americans get smarter and smarter”

    Good one!

  7. sean
    November 14th, 2008 | 18:14

    “Google is finally catching up to competitors Microsoft and Yahoo for once.”

    are you slow or something??????

  8. onedagan
    November 14th, 2008 | 18:59

    What about the PDA?

  9. tedrock
    November 14th, 2008 | 21:02

    “Google is finally catching up to competitors Microsoft and Yahoo for once.”

    they’ve had google 411 forever. which is voice activated.

  10. bryan
    November 15th, 2008 | 06:19

    neither microsoft or yahoo even havve an app for the iphone, let alone one that lets you search via voice command

    what’s google ‘catching up’ to?

  11. Bizzle
    November 15th, 2008 | 19:58

    What will the name be?

  12. garryb
    November 19th, 2008 | 14:11

    any links for the ipa for people in europe who cant download this.

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