Google Mobile released a new version of its app for BlackBerrys last week. What’s new? Two features related to voice recognition and location detection.
Voice search Search with my location
To run the voice search, you hold down the talk button on your BlackBerry and speak your search term.
But wait there’s more. Voice search is tuned to work with American, British, and Canadian English.
I ran a quick test on this with a colleague at work. The results were less than convincing for the Brits.
Search term ‘Shoes’
American English returned ‘Shoes’ British English returned ‘Susan’
Search term ‘Cincos Restaurant’ American English returned ‘Kinkos Restaurant’ British English returned …Continue reading >>
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