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Google is listening, and iPhone users are talking
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone According to the New York Times and the Google iPhone page, the big G is about to add voice recognition capabilities to its iPhone search app (iTunes link), with the new version showing up on the App Store any minute now. You'll be able to ask questions (the kind Google can answer, of course; someone else will have to tell you if those pants make you look fat) and get speedy search results returned from the web or your own address book. The voice recordings from the application will be sent to Google's servers for processing "in the cloud." Given the size of Google's infrastructure ...

Google Mobile App for iPhone Finally Gets Its Voice
Tech-Ex — After an interminable (not really, but it was sort of ridiculous how people reacted to the delay) wait, the Google Mobile App for iPhone with new voice recognition features showed up on the App Store. Strangely, at first it displayed the version number of the old version, though if you tried to download it, you would get the new version. As I wrote previously, it had been expected to appear on Monday. The change in 0.3.142 is voice search. You bring the phone to your ear, the search app recognizes that via the accelerometer, you say a search term, and the app sends it to Google servers, where it's run through voice ...