Microsoft testing voice search for Windows Mobile

Microsoft is internally testing a new version of Windows Live Search that enables voice as well as written queries. But the installer file seems to have found its way out of Redmond.

You can either speak into your Windows Mobile microphone or if you've got a model with a bluetooth audio stack, you should be able to speak into a bluetooth headset.

Pretty much any field in the experimental version that allows text entry will also accept voice commands. This is beta software, so it's still pretty buggy. It will only run on devices running Windows Mobile 5.0 or later.

When you start the application, you might get a message that there's a newer version available, but that version does not include Voice Search, so you'll want to say no.

[via Tech[dot]Blog]

Tags: live search, LiveSearch, voice recognition, voice search, VoiceRecognition, VoiceSearch