Yahoo unveils voice-powered search
Yahoo on Wednesday became the first major search engine to let people search the Web by talking to a mobile device.Marco Boerries, an executive vice president, said technology from vlingo, a start-up based in Cambridge, Mass., would allow people who have BlackBerry Curves, Pearls or the 8800 series to scour the Web with their voice, using Yahoo’s mobile search engine, known as oneSearch. Yahoo is working to make the service available on other mobile devices and overseas. “We are fundamentally changing the way consumers use the Internet on their mobile phones,” Boerries said during a keynote at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas.
Dave Grannon, chief executive of vlingo, said the service can handle any spoken query. It is also built to adapt to a person’s voice and to improve over time, he said. Competitive products, such as the voice search in Microsoft’s Live Search for mobile, can only handle queries for specific local information, such as directions to a local pizza parlor. Yahoo is relying on voice technology it has exclusively licensed from Vlingo Corp, a two-year-old Cambridge, Massachusetts-based start-up. Yahoo also is leading a $20 million funding round in Vlingo with existing investors Charles River Ventures and Sigma Partners. Starting on Wednesday, Blackberry users can download voice-enabled oneSearch at mobile.yahoo.com.
Source: Reuters
The link at the end of the post doesn’t work :S Is it just me or can anyone else get it to load? Seems like quite the cool new way of searching.
@2 Na, links dead for me too
Kool!!!!
I think it might be a web page that’s only accessible from mobile devices.
Works fine for me.
Ah it works now
Any good for adult related ’searches’ ?? hehe
link works fine
but I don’t get this idea tho’ …
Search on the go? yea speaking may be faster and easier for some to quickly search for something on the go, but unless it reads you the results you still gotta stop and read…
And looking at the above picture, it doesn’t look like your everyday searches…
Idea has a very long way to go before it becomes mainstream.
Probably be useful in a couple years when more and more things become voice automated
Yahoo’s not going down without a fight.
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