nytimes.com - 11/14/2008
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SAN FRANCISCO Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to get computers to understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the Apple iPhone . Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make ...
techcrunch.com - 11/13/2008
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techcrunch.com —
We’ve received multiple (if thin) reports that Apple
is working on a search engine of some sort....
At first glance, the rumors make sense. Apple’s Safari browser has 6-7% market share , and currently uses Google as the search engine for both the ...
(more)
Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
news.cnet.com - 11/10/2008
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news.cnet.com —
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios, better known as MGM, will
be the first major movie studio to post full-length...
feature films on YouTube, the company announced Sunday. CNET News reported on Thursday that YouTube was preparing to launch a feature-film ...
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MGM first to post full-length features to YouTube
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Google Gets Vocal with Its iPhone Search App
Tech-Ex —
On Friday, Google was expected to unveil the second release of its mobile app for the iPhone. The software allows users to query Google outside of the mobile Safari Web browser, as well as search through contacts. But the big change in this release is the addition of voice recognition to the app, which lets you skip using the keyboard. According to the New York Times, Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make available as soon as Friday through its iTunes store, can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually ...
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 ...
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Dean Pullen the Inquirer , Friday 14 November 2008. 10:46:00 Free app imminent today GOOGLE HAS ALLEGEDLY released its latest contribution to the Iphone App Store for approval - voice-based Google searching. Now, instead of typing in 'where ...
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