Mobile voice searchers most often ask for Youtube, Facebook and MySpace

Mobile developer Vlingo runs a service that GoMo News has always been interested in: mobile voice control. The product allows you to access most of the core functions of your device simply by speaking at it - you can see our live demo of the service at CTIA 2009 here. One of those functions is mobile web search, where you can simply tell Vlingo what you want and at it will run a series of searches for it on the internet through your phone. Today, Vlingo has published its list of the 10 most popular mobile web searches that were run through Vlingo during 2009.

Mobile voice search launched by Google India, but they should have called it a beta

A mobile voice search engine, custom-built by Google India for the Indian market, has launched for free. Currently only Blackberry users can access the internet-style voice search service. But Google India plans to support other handsets by the end of the year.

Multimodal voice services – mobile’s hidden fruit?

Rich media services such as voice, barcodes, video are writing a new book for mobile services. But will the outcome be more like 1984 or The Wizard of Oz?

Movidilo multi-modal servcies explained

After I wrote a lengthy piece on Movidilo I had two competitors and three mobile operators come back to me with questions and feedback.
The question that came back was that following my article on Movidilo it was unclear what was “multi-modal” in the article and where did voice or visual meet.
So, I got on the [...]

China Telecom chooses Madhouse for mobile local search advertising

Best Tone Information Service is the umbrella group for China Telecoms voice search and directory enquiry services. China Telecom regards it as a local search service - by ringing a 114 number, China Telecom customers can get info on places to eat, tourist info, road guides and a lot more.  Madhouse, one of China’s largest [...]

Movidilo mobile multi-modal voice the visual application way

Now, I don’t often get a shock when I do interviews. But this time I did. I knew of Movidilo, but had bracketed them as mobile content solution provider without properly doing my research. So you can imagine how wide my eyes grew when VP of Business Martin Gossling met me in London to showcase [...]

New mobile search engine from Getfugu combines LBS, voice, video and image recognition

Getfugu is a mobile company with mild multiple-personality disorder. It provides a number of very different services, with mobile search being the most recent area it has branched into. The search engine it offers combines a number of mobile search types that have been popular of late: local search, logo based visual search, voice search [...]

Google declares that voice search is “core” to it’s business, and demos mobile version of Gmail

Vic Gundotra, Google VP of Engineering, declared that voice search will be central to Google’s business, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on Friday. He claimed that Google’s voice recognition software has improved hugely recently, and could soon be a core part of its mobile and on-line services.

Responding to the claims that the [...]

New Nuance service claims to voice-enable any service on any mobile device

Nuance Communications today announced that it’s Nuance Voice Control (NVC) 2.0 can enable speech for any service on any mobile device from smartphones to feature phones. The new NVC combines on-device voice recognition with voice recognition in the network.

NVC functions include:
- Voice activated dialing: “Call Mom’s mobile”
- Free-form Web search: “Find tickets to Red [...]

Yahoo! releases bug update of oneSearch mobile search engine

Yahoo! today launched a bundle of new features for the oneSearch Shortcut. New services include a tracking feature, improved Search Assist, a Windows Mobile client and integrated voice search.
Search Assist - your previous searches history are now included with Search Assist recommendations and predictive text results. Voice search also allows you to speak your query [...]

AT&T and SMS Mobile Search and Voice Search firm ChaCha announce strategic partnership

SMS – is king once more. ChaCha Mobile Search has a new strategic partnership with AT&T.
What is it?

ChaCha will use a co-branded greeting and promote AT&T when consumers call 1-800 2ChaCha (1-800-2-242242).The two companies also will work together to further enhance ChaCha’s free mobile-answers service and explore opportunities in both text and voice ad-based services. [...]

Vlingo Mobile Search voice application for the iPhone

Voice search, just doesn’t go away from the radar.
Now Vlingo has created an iPhone voice application to compliment the services it already provides on the Blackberry.

I had a quick peak at the application but am yet to download it on my iPhone (http://www.vlingo.com/vlingo/iphone.jsp)
From the press release:
“The iPhone offers an innovative multitouch user interface that is [...]

Voice advertising experts Apptera secure over 10 million dollars… and a former Yahoo! executive

Rating: Latest round of funding heavily favors voice apps
Hot on the heels of news that Ifbyphone has gotten over 4 million dollars of funding, we get heed of another voice app company doing even better. Apptera, creator of the MobileAd XChange, has received 10.5 million dollars in funding from VCs.
What?
MobileAd XChange is an application that [...]

Mobile Search: Talking to the Internet - can voice enabling become the standard way to search?

Most people who own a mobile have encountered voice-recognition software at the end of the line at some point. My experience with it has mostly been with paying bills and booking cinema tickets and my experience has usually not been good. Within a few frustrating minutes, I just want to talk to a real person. [...]

CTIA - On the show floor with Brian Lent of Medio

It’s weds afternoon here at CTIA in San Francisco and another beautiful day! Brian and I took some time out of his busy schedule to take a look round the show floor of CTIA. Here are Brian’s brief thoughts on what he has seen. We also talk briefly about Voice Search with the Medio Search [...]

Mobile News for Leaders