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TechCrunch: Google Voice Search Goes To China (And Nokia Gets It Too)
WebProNews Feed: Google Search By Voice Learns Chinese (In Limited Fashion)
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Google search by voice travels the world. Finds Nokia and learns Chinese. http://bit.ly/3BKO7d 30 days ago |
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RT @dsmdesign: Google search by voice? Could this be the future of search engines? http://tinyurl.com/yfzyvq8 30 days ago |
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De olho no mercado chinês (em que o Baidu domina) Google lança busca por voz em chinês para Symbian S60:http://tinyurl.com/yfzyvq8 30 days ago |
Google Voice Search Goes To China (And Nokia Gets It Too)
TechCrunch —
... Google already has impressive voice search capabilities on the iPhone, Android, and other phones in English. But today, it is extending voice search to Mandarin Chinese and to older Nokia S60 series phones. There are so many different accents and nuances to spoken Chinese, which is the most popular language in the world, that getting the speech-to-text good enough to return relevant searches is a huge challenge. ...
Google Search By Voice Learns Chinese (In Limited Fashion)
WebProNews Feed —
... even an acronym, FIGS.) But Google Search by voice broke with tradition - and started to make its way into a huge market - by moving straight from English to Mandarin Chinese today.
Mandarin Chinese is the world's most-spoken language, with two different recent estimates putting the number of native speakers at around 845 million. If Google can win their loyalty with respect to voice search, it'll open the door to all sorts of mobile revenue.
Of course, Mandarin Chinese is a famously complex language, and in a post on ...
Google Adds Nokia S60s, Mandarin to Voice Search
AppScout —
... "Many of these phones have 12-digit keypads -- good for making calls, but not so easy when you need to type a few words," Google wrote in a blog post. "Many of you have asked if we could build our search by voice feature for these phones, and we've been working on this feature for a while." ...
Google Search by voice now available for Nokia S60 handsets
Boy Genius Report —
... that this extremely convenient feature is added to the popular OS. After all, many S60 devices don’t have full QWERTY keyboards, so searching by manual input is still a pain in the rear. In addition to making its voice features available to S60, Google Mobile App now recognizes and supports Mandarin Chinese, which is the most spoken language in the world. Hit the jump for a video demo.
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Nokia S60 Smartphones Get Google Search by Voice
Mobile Magazine —
... would, but then you can hold down a key and speak into your phone for any Google search. This works for finding pictures, nearby eateries, currency conversions, and more. The search results are swayed by your physical location too.
Watching the video demo below, you can learn how you can use your search to initiate search queries, looking for French restaurants in Brighton and pictures of the Queen’s coronation. That’s what we all want, right?
Source: Googleblog
Google Search by voice now speaks Chinese and works on Nokia S60 phones
D' Technology Weblog —
... Google Search by voice has grown across English-speaking world and is now available in US, U.K., India, Australia and Mandarin Chinese, and is available for Nokia S60 phones. This new version of Google Mobile App places a shortcut to Google search on your Nokia phone's home screen, allowing you to search using your voice or by typing. You can search for anything — from "movie times", to "fish 'n chips", to "masala dosa." It doesn't matter if you're in London or Bangalore: we'll use your location to give you nearby results. And Google Mobile ...
