TellMe/Cingular voice search ambitions
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Cingular hooks up with TellMe. As other mobile operators and web portal as Yahoo, Microsoft did before, the mobile operator got interested in the TellMe voice recognition technology to power mobile search services.
TellMe was founded by Mike McCue, the former VP for technology of Netscape. Its technologies permit spoken queries, voice-enable navigation through search results, and in the future, would enable maps navigation on cellphones.
Voice recognition hasn’t been that cool in past years. But it heats up again. According to some studies like the Kelsey Group, portal-backed voice search will reach 1.45 billion queries by 2010. And TellMe could seize a pretty big portion of the cake. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said to the NY Times TellMe delivery system is “better than expected.” Great, we look forward to hearing more from TellMe.
Oct 11, 2006 | By Nuno
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[…] Tellme has beta launched its voice-activated search engine, reaching the first public stage of their service that we started covering since August last year. It allows users to find a business by name or category, scroll, browse the search results, view a map, obtain step-by-step directions, call the business — with only the voice. For instance, users could say “find-metro station-downtown” to request a list of all available metro station in the area. […]