Comments on: Yahoo! Chases After Google, Adds Voice Search To iPhone App

By: INTERNET ZEN » Blog Archive » Yahoo! imita a Google y agrega búsqueda con voz en su app de iPhone

Thu, 21 May 2009 20:28:11 +0000

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By: GALLERY SALES

GALLERY SALES — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:40:48 +0000

So now ive got three voices telling me to repeat myself;google yahoo and the wife!

By: Free Freebies

Free Freebies — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:40:22 +0000

yahoo still exists?

By: monitors

monitors — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:33:33 +0000

Hmmmm…yahoo copies google’s moves. Shocker! Wonder why they’re a distant 2nd place in the search wars.

By: Bill Meisel

Bill Meisel — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:13:13 +0000

Yahoo! announced its search with voice for the Blackberry at CTIA 2008- over a year ago. Google introduced voice search much later.
Tests of speech recognition should test what people really do. The speech recognition (from Vlingo) actually tunes to individual use. Unless you plan to send text messages that say “testing 1 2 3″ many times, you are messing up a good technology.

By: Yahoo Adds Voice Search To iPhone App

Yahoo Adds Voice Search To iPhone App — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:48:30 +0000

[...] noticed Yahoo has added voice search capabilities to their Yahoo One Search iPhone App. I spent a few [...]

By: Ricky

Ricky — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:49:42 +0000

good to see yahoo doing something

By: Darwin

Darwin — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:19:52 +0000

Yahoo search is not nearly as accurate and Google search does have the ability to press a button as well so you don’t have to put the phone to your head.

By: Yahoo! Chases After Google, Adds Voice Search To iPhone App | The Scripts Zone

Thu, 21 May 2009 09:06:17 +0000

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By: monkey hater

monkey hater — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:47:16 +0000

who even cares about monkeys commenting…
and by the way, people working at yahoo are better than the monkey who wrote the previous comment.

By: deb

deb — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:44:32 +0000

Greg Kumparak, how much you get from google?

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Thu, 21 May 2009 04:56:29 +0000

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By: RM

RM — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:37:01 +0000

iPhone add on?

Google’s voice search is built-in on the Android home screen, and it works phenomenally.

By: realistic

realistic — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:07:46 +0000

Be more realistic with your test words for search. Voice were definitely not IP of goog.

By: John Tillman

John Tillman — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:23:55 +0000

Big mistake by Yahoo that it didn’t release the Voice app for iPhone first. And, it pays the price. Why release an app for Blackberry in Apr 2008 and take 1 year to release the similar app for iPhone? It seems that Yahoo! was stuck thinking that iPhone has only 5% marketshare but it didn’t realize that it has 75% buzz and 80% mobile user use it to surf the internet (rest 20% use other mobile devices – including RIM). This clearly indicates what a mess Yahoo has in the house.

By: monkeys

monkeys — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:57:32 +0000

who cares about “80 devices” when the voice recognition is implemented by monkeys?

By: @briggsly

@briggsly — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:02:27 +0000

Why the hubub over Google’s use of an exclusive API? Do you not remember (after waiting in line for 6+ hours) opening up that sleek black box and seeing apps from Google, and Yahoo?
Google – Youtube, Maps
Yahoo – Weather, Stocks
But letting Google hijack an API closed to the rest of us? Yeah, maybe. Take a look at those apps. Weather and stocks… snore. Nothing fantastic went into those. They basically took their widgets from OSX and recoded in Cocoa touch. Google maps and youtube are seriously high powered apps that leverage many of the functionalities and APIs that make the iPhone worth those 6+ hours in line.
I’d be interested to hear Greg or one of the other TechCrunch guys sit down with the leads at Apple and Google and investigate the development and collaboration that went into those apps.

And I know I’m going to get flack for this, but who cares. I want to respond to Stave and the others…
No one cares about Blackberry anymore. If we were debating launches on GI vs. iPhone app launches, fine. But IMO Blackberry is irrelevant in the “app store wars.” I’m not surprised that Yahoo’s BB launch didn’t stir the waters, it doesn’t warrant a headline on Yahoo’s own homepage.

By: Yahoo! Chases After Google, Adds Voice Search To iPhone App | Tech-Framers

Yahoo! Chases After Google, Adds Voice Search To iPhone App | Tech-Framers — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:01:10 +0000

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By: Sunny G

Sunny G — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:41:54 +0000

lol! where did the 4 come up from in test 3? Another example of Yahoo going downhill and Google continuing its growing dominance. It just released its new browser Google Chrome, absolutely awesome, luv it. http://walydopts.blogspot.com/2009/05/google-chrome.html

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:25:38 +0000

I have this app and found the voice recognition to be slightly better than GOOG’s…

There’s also an option to change the algorithm used for recognition. To access it, go to your iPhone’s Settings menu, scroll down to the bottom of the menu where application settings are and tap Yahoo!, then under Voice Input Language you can choose your accent.

Does it help? I don’t know (having a California accent myself), can someone with a “supported” accent do a comparison and post?

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:36:07 +0000

Great comment. Unfortunately Techcrunch (as well as other sites’) post on anything related to Yahoo have been absurd since long ago. Google is cool and Yahoo sucks, every news is pressed into this box no matter what.

By: cotton candy kyle

cotton candy kyle — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:26:50 +0000

has voice recognition gotten any better? i still fight with those stupid promts on the phone, and those are even narrowed down to only a few phrases. i’ll check it out.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:15:28 +0000

Here’s a story for you! Yahoo! beats Google to an idea by several months, but no one reports on it. Then Google does the same thing (but on a different platform) and it’s treated as the Second Coming. Then Yahoo! belatedly releases its idea on the Jesus Phone. And the press reports that Yahoo! is copying Google!!

Wait, this is what actually happened…

Yahoo! launched Voice Search for Blackberry in April 2008 (yes, 2008), several months before Google launched Voice Search for iPhone. No one wrote an article about how Yahoo! had beaten Google to the market with a great idea and product. Then Google launched Voice Search for iPhone and everyone fawned all over it (not just their implementation, but also the very idea of voice search). The Jesus Company on the Jesus Phone. Perfect!

Now, Yahoo! (finally — what took so long?) adds voice search for iPhone and they get beaten up for copying the very idea of voice search.

Unfortunately, perception becomes reality.

By: Cory Pforzheimer

Cory Pforzheimer — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:13:48 +0000

Yahoo! launched voice-enabled oneSearch on the BlackBerry more than a year ago (April, 2008) and now supports all of the latest BB devices (Bold, Storm, 8900, Flip, etc.) Yahoo! offers voice search for more than 80 different devices / platforms, including Nokia, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and iPhone.

To download on your BlackBerry, visit http://m.yahoo.com/voice.

disclaimer: I work for Yahoo!.

By: Anon Imus

Anon Imus — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:04:23 +0000

Damn you Yahoo for turning West Africa upside down.