It wasn’t clear at the time (and still isn’t) to which Microsoft product Ballmer was referring, though it could have been their TellMe voice integration for Windows, XBox and Windows Phone. Were Google to launch a voice assistant based on a...
The new search feature, which will be released this holiday season, uses the Microsoft TellME voice recognition technology and the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor to allow a search experience that makes the user's body into the controller.
Powered by Microsoft Tellme, the voice search provides another very natural way to search. Bing for iPad also includes a voice search function. With the tag line "Touch and Decide," Bing has released an incredible new search app for iPad.
Microsoft earlier this week launched a voice-powered mobile navigation app powered by Tellme and available on Windows Mobile (6.x) devices. This includes voice search, barcode scans, augmented reality, and other search "inputs" more intuitive than...
Mobile products from Vlingo, Tellme, and Google have similarly taken advantage of the phone's internal microphone to build voice search interfaces that find and call local businesses. Voice search could have a bright future in mobile, and even...
Tellme will enable voice search as well as voice commands for the phones it's used on. Microsoft is bringing Tellme, a voice service it acquired a couple years ago, to Windows Mobile phones. Because it's so intuitive, we believe there is a real...
For example, with the new Vlingo app (Microsoft TellMe competitor), searchers can speak into their mobile phones send SMS messages to find and download Souljah Boy Tellem songs. Machine translation from voice to text promises to be the grail of...
At the top of the list of new features is the launch of Live Search 411, a voice search product built on technology acquired from Tellme earlier this year. Following up on the major updates rolled out in September, Microsoft today made another...
Multi-modal search and ad serving technologies being developed by Tellme and others show a great deal of promise in having the user-centric qualities that these data highlight. A sizable opportunity exists with mobile advertising in standard and...
This is the third mobile ad acquisition in the last 18 months for Microsoft, following its acquisition of Paris-based mobile search and ad provider MotionBridge in February 2006, and voice-enabled mobile search provider TellMe in March 2007.
SEW blogger and Kelsey Group analyst Michael Boland breaks down some of the highlights from the recent conference in today's SearchDay, "Video and Mobile Search Take Center Stage," including voice-enabled search from Tellme, mobile mapping from...
Tellme, Screenwerk Google Launches Voice-Based Local Search Experiment, ClickZ Google Launches Voice-Based Local Search Experiment, ClickZ Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to...
Yahoo Snags TellMe Execs, GigaOm Google Voice Local Search Launched - Pales In Comparison To Other Talking Search Engines, Read/Write Web Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to...
This was driven largely by Microsoft's then very recent acquisition of voice automated search provider Tellme. Tellme VP of marketing Sanjeev Agrawal sat on a mobile search panel in which he affirmed the competitive advantage in mobile local search...
SEW blogger and Kelsey Group analyst Michael Boland breaks down some of the highlights from the recent conference in today's SearchDay, "Video and Mobile Search Take Center Stage," including voice-enabled search from Tellme, mobile mapping from...
Microsoft Confirms Tellme AcquisitionThe rumors that Microsoft was about to acquire voice-enabled mobile search provider Tellme have been confirmed, with an announcement from Microsoft today. Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news?
The rumors that Microsoft was about to acquire voice-enabled mobile search provider Tellme have been confirmed, with an announcement from Microsoft today. Tellme brings to Microsoft the talent, technology and proven experience in speech that will...
Tellme is a strong (and profitable) company in the rapidly growing wireless voice search area, which could provide a great deal of value for Microsoft (past SEW writing on Tellme is here). Tellme would bring the ability to integrate voice search...
First, Tellme announced this morning that it will expand its mobile voice platform to allow mobile search application developers to build products that integrate voice and visual search. Conversely, when results are returned, sometimes its easier...
Cingular is trying to do just that with help from Tellme. Voice-Enabled Mobile Search Kill Directory Assistance? Local media research firm The Kelsey Group just forecast "portal-backed wireless voice search [will] reach 1.45 billion queries in...
