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Microsoft Brings Voice Bing

Posted by on Oct 6, 2009 | One Comment

There should be an image here!As this article points out clearly enough, Bing now allows mobile users to use mobile search with their voices, much like you might see with Google and have seen for sometime now.

So here’s the rub, despite what the article claims about Google being first to market on this voice search functionality, the fact is that Microsoft actually has had this for awhile…just not with their Bing search engine. The voice recognition technology itself has been avaiable since about 2007 though.

What is worth mentioning however is just how useful or un-useful this can be. If you are using a corded or Bluetooth earpiece and need to search for something or call someone, this is a great option especially with Bing. If however, you are talking at your phone like the guy in the link above is, not so much.

  • http://ictheworld.wordpress.com hotrao

    In my opinion Microsoft is “closing” to strictly on Google. The sense is that I think that is trying to copy or anticipate every move, in order to achieve market quotas.

    It’s not a faulty situation at all, but is not what is needed to cause a radical re-advantage on big G: I think that if Micrososft doesn’ find a way to get a technological or a commercial break through, Bing will be an incomplete contender to Google.