Tag: VOICE SEARCH

Now that Google Chrome 11 has hit the beta channel, you can expect to see extension and Web app developers making use of the new HTML5 speech-to-text API. In fact, there's as least one slick extension you can already install: Speechify. Install Speechify, and you'll see a microphone icon added into the search box on many popular sites -- like Google and Bing. Click it, and Speechify will ...

Voice Search is an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to speak search queries instead of typing them, and it's not limited to Google searches. It works very similar to the voice input system that Google has built into Android. A microphone icon will show up in your browser's extensions area, as well as near any HTML5-powered search box on websites that it can be used for. To search for ...

The standard voice recognition models in Google's Android Voice Search works well for most people, but now you can turn on custom voice recognition to make Voice Search more accurate for you. Google will associate recordings of your spoken searches with your account, building up a voice model that it can use to accurately recognize your voice. According to the Google Mobile Blog, you'll notice ...

This is just a quick heads-up for all our Eastern European and Anatolian readers: you can now use Android's Voice Search in four new and crazy languages! Russian is the first Cyrillic language, and Turkish, Polish and Czech mean that a lot of Europe now has access to Voice Search. The only real problem is that you have to change your phone's global language setting to use Voice Search in ...

Microsoft and Apple don't always play nicely together, but if MS wants to compete with Google in search it has to go mobile. And going mobile these days means having an iPhone app, so that's exactly what Microsoft did. The Bing app has just hit the app store, and it offers features like voice search, a daily photo, and mapping features (including locating yourself with the iPhone's GPS). The ...

Sprint and Microsoft have teamed up to bring users what they call "the industry's first fully integrated GPS location-aware mobile search service." The service which launches today is available on Sprint phones and allows users to use one search box to search the web, local listings, and maps at the same time as well as use their cell phones GPS to quickly find local businesses without having to ...

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 ...