Microsoft’s TellMe Launches Voice Search for Blackberry
This post was published 1 year 6 months 16 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Yes, you read it correctly. Microsoft has released a program for the Blackberry before their WinMo powered devices.
Tellme lets you speak commands into your Blackberry to seach the web, look up movie times, check traffic and make other queries.
Once users download the program, 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.
Might be worth a shot for the Crackberry addicted sect out there.
Dan,
Correction: The Live Search application for Windows Mobile devices has supported voice search since its last release on October 2007 (can download from wls.live.com).
You can see a video here:
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=6ab43669-6063-4aee-b5d4-8ecbd99afa02
… or screen shots here (not familiar with this blog … I’m including it becasue it has some decent screen shots):
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2008/04/search_using_your_voice_on_windows_mobile_1.html
All though I do love the idea of this product, I believe that voice commanded products have a little ways to go. But I believe that this is one of the better ones out there.
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