Yahoo Blows Up Mobile Voice Search
Yahoo is amplifying its mobile voice search onto multiple Nokia and BlackBerry phones.
Users of some Nokia S60 handsets like the N95 can now apply voice recognition with Yahoo’s oneSearch 2.0 home-screen shortcut. Once set up, users can talk to find stock citations, sports scores, and more. It also includes search assist, spelling suggestions, and real-time related concepts for more polished search results.
Additionally, Yahoo Go 3.0 will incorporate the voice search, and it can be downloaded onto select BlackBerry and Nokia S40 and S60 devices. The voice-recognition technology is currently available in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Singapore, the Philippines, and Canada only.
On the mobile search side, the company tracks Google by a substantial edge, but Yahoo bears on to make headway in that space with its oneSearch offerings, and it lately signed a deal to be the default search provider for most of AT&T’s cell phones.