Yahoo has just invested $20 million in vlingo a voice recognition company specializing in the mobile market. Yahoo!, leveraging this relationship, announced the launch of a voice-enabled version of Yahoo! oneSearch, a new mobile search client that supports unstructured, open-ended voice searches that allows the consumer to speak their query as they would type it into the search box.
One can imagine many applications of voice search such as the integration of GPS/mapping or SMS communications while driving.
Of course this information is not lost on Microsoft as they picked up the leader in this space, TellMe a while back. To be fair, TellMe uses speech recognition in the cloud meaning it is not hosted on devices.
Microsoft already has a speech recognition application for Windows Mobile devices but to date it has not integrated this technology into search.
See vlingo Secures $20 Million Financing Led by Yahoo! by TMCnet’s Anil Sharma.
Rey
August 10, 2009 at 5:51 pmHi,
This great. I read every article that you post. Please keep up the good work.
-Rey
Ben
August 10, 2009 at 5:55 pmHi,
Please keep up the good work.
Ben
Rich
August 10, 2009 at 6:05 pmHello,
I hope yahoo do continue their investment for Voice recognition. The technology is going to be amazing in decades from now.
-Rich
Joshan
October 4, 2009 at 12:04 pmVoice Recognition softwares are in infancy at the moment. They need time to mature, and maybe development of other/new algorithm. The voice recognition software has been available since early 80s, but have not been given the attention that really deserves. One of the advacne voice recognition software came about in late 90s in form of IVR (Interactive Voice Responce). AT&T was the first company to use to access company Customer Service (say or press 3 for this…) IVR should become embedded into processors or as a seperate processor so can be handled different.
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