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Google Launches Voice Search for Android in the Middle East

Android enthusiasts living in the Middle East will be happy to know that Google has finally launched its Voice Search application in the region. Arabic and Hebrew languages are now available for Android users to experiment with. Voice Search for Android allows users to search the Internet and the phone by voice,...

6 December 2011
04:34 GMT

Android 2.3.6 Arrives on Nexus S, Breaks WiFi Tethering

Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has started to deliver a new software update to the owners of a Nexus S smartphone, bringing the operating system on their devices up to version 2.3.6. Apparently, the new software update was meant to bring along a series of enhancements and fixes to the voice search fea...

5 September 2011
13:51 GMT

Google Maps Now Supports Voice Search, on Google Chrome

Google is slowly moving beyond typing as an input method, along with the whole industry, but it's a slow process. The most recent developments for Google are the speech input capabilities built into Chrome which are now supported on more and more Google sites. The latest to join the list is Google Maps, which...

26 August 2011
09:31 GMT

Bon’App for iPhone Gains Voice Search from Nuance Communications

Nuance Communications, Inc., the company whose voice software is used by Apple in their Mac operating system, today announced that its Dragon Mobile SDK is powering the voice search capabilities in Bon’App, a new iPhone app.Bon’App is described as a revolutionary application that will completely change th...

25 August 2011
11:21 GMT

Bing and Kinect NUI Magic on Xbox – Voice Search

Bing and Kinect is an extremely powerful NUI combination that delivers next generation user experiences unmatched by any of Microsoft’s rivals in the console space. By blending together the natural user interface capabilities of the Kinect sensor and of its decision engine, the Redmond company will enable Xb...

7 June 2011
04:27 GMT

iOS 5 Will Handle Everything in Our Lives - Report

An interesting proposition from a social media blogger paints a nice picture of Apple’s upcoming iOS 5 with the help of Siri and the company’s massive North Carolina Data Center. John Koetsier believes Apple’s forthcoming major revision to the iOS will make it a ‘personal assistant from hea...

12 May 2011
03:59 GMT

Google Chrome Gets a Voice Search Extension

Voice search is one of Android's killer features and is a great alternative to typing on the small or virtual keyboards in smartphones. While Google has been bullish on voice technologies, they've mostly been relegated to the mobile space. Not anymore though, Google is working on building voice input into C...

5 January 2011
09:22 GMT

Google Improves Voice Search App with Personalized Recognition

Launched two years ago, Google's Voice Search function is now getting improved, as Google has just announced the release the “Personalized recognition” feature. The company claims that the new feature will greatly improve the accuracy of its speech recognition service.Google sees the voice search fun...

14 December 2010
12:59 GMT

Android 2.3 Gingerbread Emerges in Official Video

Mountain View-based Internet giant Google is readying the release of a new version of its mobile operating system, namely Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and the platform flavor has just made an appearance in an official video from the company.Of course, the said video, which was a tutorial from Google Hong Kong, aimed at ...

3 December 2010
02:36 GMT

Google Voice Search Now with Support for Zulu and Afrikaans

Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has just announced the addition of new features to its Voice Search solution, with the inclusion of support for Zulu and Afrikaans, along with South African-accented English.Voice Search has been constantly updated with new features during the past few months, and now it off...

11 November 2010
04:19 GMT

Google Voice Search Learns Four New Languages

Today, Mountain View-based Internet giant Google announced the addition of some new features to one of the services / applications it offers to users of mobile phones (including Android, iPhone and others), namely Voice Search. Four new languages have been included into the mix, including Russian, Polish, Czech and ...

22 October 2010
02:24 GMT

Wolfram|Alpha Voice Search App Launched for T-Mobile G2

Wolfram|Alpha, the computational knowledge search engine, has just been launched for the Android platform. The application is advertised mainly for the T-Mobile G2 smartphone, but it can also be downloaded on other devices running Android 1.6 or newer.Wolfram|Alpha enables users to search by voice or text, or try to ...

7 October 2010
06:25 GMT

Google Voice Search on Android Demoed on Video

One of the nicest features that Google offered to mobile phone users out there was Search by Voice, enabling them to speak the words they want to search for over the Internet without having to type on the small screen of a handset. Of course, this enables users to search for what is of interest for them much faster ...

15 September 2010
05:57 GMT

Google Mobile App Gets Push for Gmail and Calendar on iPhone

Google’s all-in-one mobile app has been updated to version 0.6.0.4416, adding support for push notifications for Gmail and Calendar, as well as an ability to “see answers before you even hit ‘Search’”, the company announced.Google Mobile App has a key feature that allows users to search ...

24 August 2010
08:32 GMT

Google Launches Voice Actions for Android

Google has recently launched a new service which should make life a lot easier for Android phones owners. Voice Actions allows users to control their mobile devices using spoken commands.The new feature is implemented by the Voice Search application which is available for download on the Android Market.Voice Actions ...

13 August 2010
08:47 GMT

AT&T Interactive Releases New YPmobile App Version

iPhone and iPod Touch users in the US can now enjoy a new version of YPmobile App for their devices, coming straight from AT&T Interactive. According to the software solution's maker, the YPmobile App enables mobile users navigate their busy on-the-go lives in more ways, and now it adds the possibility of perfo...

28 April 2010
09:56 GMT

Introducing Google Earth for Android 2.1

Mountain View-based company Google launched on Monday a new application for handsets running under its Android 2.1 operating system, namely Google Earth. According to the company, this first iteration of Google Earth for Android comes with a nice range of features that desktop users of the application are already fa...

23 February 2010
02:11 GMT

New Voice and Location Search Features from Google

Google has just announced a new feature for mobile phone users, namely visual search with Google Goggles. While this comes as a brand new and great option for those using the search engine from their mobile phone's browser, there are some other novelties the company brought to its services. Among them, we can c...

8 December 2009
05:25 GMT

Google Mobile App for Symbian Reaches v2.03(8)

Search engine giant Google announced on Monday that it released a new version of its Google Mobile App for Symbian mobile phones. The new flavor of the application offers owners of a Nokia device the possibility to place a shortcut to Google search directly on their handset's home screen, so that they can perfor...

3 November 2009
08:20 GMT

Android Sees Upgraded Google Maps

It seems that Android mobile phone users can now enjoy an upgraded version of Google Maps for their handsets. According to the Mountain View-based company, the new version comes with improvements for Latitude, as well as with a series of new features, among which we can mention the fact that users can now perform voi...

16 June 2009
04:45 GMT

Updated Google Mobile App Now Available

Yesterday I reported that Google had updated its Mobile App for iPhone and iPod touch with a new addition, namely Voice Search. The new feature sounds pretty exciting, and thanks to Google's demonstration video, it looks so as well. The update has just been made available, is free (as is the app itself), so rush...

18 November 2008
15:05 GMT

Google Releasing ‘Voice Search’ for the iPhone

Google has brought “Voice Search,” which is the upgrade to the iPhone search application, and is designed to do everything that other such services offer, and a bit more on the side. The process starts with the users placing the phone to the mouth or the ear, and asking for the necessary information. The ...

18 November 2008
03:16 GMT

Google Mobile App Adds Voice Search

Google is providing iPhone owners with means to search everything they could possibly want through speech. An update to the free Google Mobile App will enable it to sense when the user wants to do a voice search, through the built in accelerometer, according to an YouTube demonstration of the app. A NY Times report ...

17 November 2008
10:03 GMT

VoiceSignal Signs AdMob as Advertising Partner for Its Voice Search Service

VoiceSignal, a provider of mobile voice technology solutions, announced a partnership with mobile advertising company AdMob to enable highly relevant advertisements for VoiceSignal's newly announced VSearch voice search service. Users with mobile data service plans will be able to access VSearch for free, as the...

6 June 2007
10:11 GMT


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