“Search by Voice” capabilities have been added to the iPhone by Google. Google Mobile App 0.3.142, a free iPhone application offered by Google, allows users to speak into the phone to search. Preliminary tests have shown that that words and phrases are correctly recognized about 80% of the time. Best results are obtained when you speak slowly and distinctly (you know, pretending to talk like a computer…). The Google Mobile App also includes the ability to search by location; whereby users can complete a google search with results relative to where they are based on their current GPS position. This is especially handy when searching for things like restaurants. You can download the application directly from iTunes or from the Apps Store application on your iPhone.
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