Posted on 02 April 2008, at 8:57 pm, by Wayne Schulz
Yahoo released v2.0 of their OneSearch mobile search engine program Wednesday at CTIA. If you’re a Blackberry Curve, Pearl or 88xx series users - you can now enter search information via voice. Curious about how it works? So was I. Take a look at this quick video I made that spotlights the good (and bad) of the voice recognition. The speed on this was impressive.While it didn’t recognize all of my words, I had the option of modifying each term using the old fashioned keyboard.

Link: Yahoo OneSearch with Voice
Link: OTA Download for Blackbery
[...] Wayne over at GadgetDiary just posted on a new Google Maps feature, where a compatible BlackBerry Device is capable of receiving voice search commands. BlackBerry’s such as the 8110, 8120 and 8130 can download the search update here: http://m.google.com/maps By simply pressing the side button and stating what you are looking for, such as a delicious Pizza, Google Maps will recognize your command, and search for the nearest Pizza place in your area. Quite the great feature, quite similar to Yahoo! OneSearch, which Wayne had reviewed in the past; Yahoo! OneSearch Review [...]
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