Tellme, the voice-activated mobile search, now available
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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.
Technically, Tellme is powered by the DialTone platform, written on open standards (VoiceXML, CCXML, and VoIP). Mike McCue, the Tellme founder who designed the system was formerly VP for technology of Netscape. Business Week previously unveiled that “Microsoft is looking to Tellme to help accelerate its efforts in mobile search and to leapfrog archrival Google.”
For now on, Tellme requires to install a Java applet on your mobile phone. And during the test period, only US business search are available.
Jan 24, 2007 | By Nuno
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