music search shakes mobile voice search again

Rating: la la la, laa laa laa la la la (I just can’t get you out of my head)

A post in moco yesterday put nayio firmly on our radar. What a hot new service with a lot of potential. We missed it in our predictions in msearchblog - but voice search is going to shift into third gear in 2007. And it will be the Asian market that leads the way.

Nayio might be a US company but they are making waves in South Korea and they offer a “humming” music search. The library might be small at present - but it can only grow and humming songs to find what they are is simply fun and will be huge. Indeed, it might work more for the extravert - and ohter services for music recognition such as Shazam continue to grow daily.

MInfo is also big in Asia and the Chinese market. MInfo are developing voice IM search on top of existing natural voice SMS and MMS services - which will be hot. (Picture from our friends at Goobile)

Other Asian companies on our RADAR: Purple Ace and Cgogo

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