Google Added The Voice Search in iPhone Software

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Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make available as soon possible through its iTunes store, can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any question, like “Where’s the nearest Starbucks?” or “How tall is Mount Everest?” The sound is converted to a digital file and sent to Google’s servers, which try to determine the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine.

You will get the search results as soon depending on your fast wireless network, will at times include local information, taking advantage of iPhone features that let it determine its location.

Yahoo and Microsoft already offered their services for the Cell Phones. The Microsoft’s Tellme service give any information in specific categories like directions, maps and movies. Yahoo’s oneSearch with Voice is more flexible but does not appear to be as accurate as Google’s offering. The Google system is far from perfect, and it can return queries that appear as gibberish. Google executives declined to estimate how often the service gets it right, but they said they believed it was easily accurate enough to be useful to people who wanted to avoid tapping out their queries on the iPhone’s touch-screen keyboard.