Navigating the Web just with your voice
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Take mouse and keyboard far away from your desktop computer. And by the way, get rid of your computer and its screen from you. Just keep your voice, and your phone, and you could still navigate on the Web.
Strange, isn’t it? But real. Microsoft might use the technology to extend Windows Live services and MSN portal to phones, any phones.
Mike McCue, who was the former VP for technology of Netscape and since, co-founded TellMe, is behind the system called DialTone 2.0. Technically, DialTone platform is based on open standards (VoiceXML, CCXML, and VoIP). In practice, the idea is simply and ambitious: It’s literally using the human voice to crawl the Web. For instance, users could supposedly speak “find-metro station-downtown” to request a list of all available metro station in the area.
“Microsoft is looking to Tellme to help accelerate its efforts in mobile search and to leapfrog archrival Google,” says Business Week. We agree, although listening to search results could rapidly become boring and isn’t the best way to include ads. And on top of that, how much a call is going to cost?
Aug 10, 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. […]