Microsoft’s Tellme launches BlackBerry Voice Search.
Rating: America Only..grrrr!
They Say: Microsoft Corp.’s Tellme subsidiary launched an application for the BlackBerry on Tuesday that lets people speak commands into their smart phones to search for businesses, look up movie times, check traffic and make other queries.
Once users download the program, available here, they can push on their phone’s green “talk” button and say either the name of a business, type of business, or the keywords “weather,” “movies,” “traffic,” “map” or “driving directions.”
Using GPS, the system figures out where the user is located and delivers nearby results from Microsoft’s Live Search engine to the smart phone’s screen, along with links to call, get directions, buy movie tickets and other related actions.
Although the software only work on BlackBerry’s newer devices - 8800 series, 8310, 8100 versions are coming for Helio, Windows Mobile and iPhone according to the AP press release.
We say: As a Blackberry user myself I think this is a great development. At the moment its only available in America but I have emailed Tellme about if and when European/UK versions may be available.
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