Why Voice is Not a Killer App?

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 26 September 2011, 23:09 IST
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4. Google Voice Actions
Google Voice Actions
Google makes searching possible through voice also. Tap on the microphone icon and say what you want to search for. Ranging from using Google Maps to locate businesses and to dial the contact automatically, it does it all. You can also dictate email messages or record a note. You can just tap the microphone button on the Google search box and hold the mic button in the app to speak the voice commands that performs the desired action. The software is available in all phones running Android 2.2 or and recently it was accepted by Apple to use it as a free application on its iTunes App Store. Voice Actions now supports additional languages like British English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. This would let the users in users in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain to call contacts, send texts, browse the web and do much more using voice commands in their own language.