Comments on: Bing copies Google Voice Search word for word

By: Kim Lautner

Kim Lautner — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:08:49 +0000

I use both Bing and Google search engine and i dont see much difference in their search results. I use google for searching hard to find academic topics and Bing for general search.

By: mados123

mados123 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:34:58 +0000

He should of just said “MS had this for live search (w/ voice) on MS phones long before google did” which they did. Like other Windows Mobile software, it was ahead of the hardware’s specs making the process challenging. This includes finding a location on a map (via voice) and then having the phone freeze up because of a loss of memory.

By: Bill Meisel

Bill Meisel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:32:42 +0000

I’ve held a Voice Search Conference for two years in partnership with the industry organization, Applied Voice Input Output Society, renamed the Mobile Voice Conference this year. Voice search to activate a web search is a distinct application from voice control, which indeed has been around for a while with much simpler functionality such as dialing the names in your contact list by voice.

Both Microsoft and Google could be said to be copying the startup Vlingo. Vlingo’s application can launch a web search, transcribe a dictated email or text message, and more. It is available for download for Microsoft Windows Mobile phones, RIM’s BlackBerry smartphone, and the Apple iPhone. The company indicates it has “millions” of iPhone and BlackBerry users in the US, amassed in less than one year. Nokia just announced it will preload the Vlingo app on some phones in Europe, making it in effect part of the standard user interface. AT&T Research is partnering with Vlingo and taking a share of the company.

To defend Microsoft and Google, they may be late, but they have been working on advanced speech recognition applications for a long time. Their free directory assistance services 800-GOOG-411 and 800-BING-411 (the latter hosted by Microsoft’s Tellme unit) are terrific and very popular.

- Bill Meisel

By: davejeyes

davejeyes — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:01:45 +0000

Decades? Really? Neither Live Search nor Search in general have been around for 20 years.

There have been telephone numbers that you could call to perform searches, but these push-button voice search capabilities for mobile phones haven’t.

You’re welcome to cite a credible source if you want to prove your point.

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:19:42 +0000

You are an idiot. MS had this for live search on MS phones long before google did. Your ignorance is embarrassing. Google copied them. Well, I’d say that if I were as stupid as you are however, voice control is a well known feature that has been around for decades.