Google Speak For Mobile Search
If Google Speak seems vaguely familiar, you may be confusing it with either Google Talk or Google Voice. Google Talk is the text messaging system that Google offers for cell phones. Google Voice Local Search is the service that Google offers via 1-800-GOOG-411 to help you find local businesses. Google Speak does not exist currently but it may well be only a matter of time.
The Wall Street Journal tells us that Google Plans Search Service for Mobile Content.
Apparently Google Inc. is developing a new search service for cell phones that will help consumers find and buy ring tones, games and other mobile content. With the new system, users would search for a piece of content — say, a U2 ring tone — and get back a list of providers as well as links enabling them to easily purchase the material. Eventually, Google would charge companies for high placement in the search results, much the way it offers, “sponsored links” on computer Web searches.
The precise mechanism isn’t clear, but speaking to your cell phone would seem to be the natural way to go. Not everyone agrees and at a recent conference a panel seemed sceptical whether Voice Recognition Is Really The Future of Mobile Search? Michael Libes, the co-founder of Medio, noted that his company “has had voice recognition live for over a year now” but others were less convinced.
What Google will do is still unclear. However their recent acquisition of GrandCentral Communications confirms that that voice technology will have an increasing emphasis in their mobile Web endeavours.
Tags: voice technology, Cellphone
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