{"id":6735,"date":"2008-04-04T09:40:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T09:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/yahoos-voice-search-ambitions.html"},"modified":"2008-04-04T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T09:40:19","slug":"yahoos-voice-search-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/google\/yahoos-voice-search-ambitions.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo&#8217;s Voice Search Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>One can imagine many applications of voice search such as the integration of GPS\/mapping or SMS communications while driving.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this information is not lost on Microsoft as they <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/microsoft\/microsoft-acquires-tellme.html\">picked up<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft already has a speech recognition application for Windows Mobile devices but to date it has not integrated this technology into search.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/internetcommunications.tmcnet.com\/topics\/broadband-mobile\/articles\/24452-vlingo-secures-20-million-financing-led-yahoo.htm\">vlingo Secures $20 Million Financing Led by Yahoo!<\/a> by TMCnet&#8217;s Anil Sharma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,163,199,188,211,1675],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}