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Internet Info-Tech - Events Marketing - New Products & Services Now, Yahoo lets you speak your search!
Via voice: The Yahoo stand at the CommunicAsia show in Singapore last week where the portal leader unveiled new voice-based mobile search services and tie-ups with major Indian telecom providers. — Anand Parthasarathy
Bangalore, June 22 Is there any one way Indians speak English? Or are the desi accents of Hinglish, as numerous as the tongues and dialects of India? Yahoo is about to find out. At the CommunicAsia technology show in Singapore last week, it announced extensions to its popular OneSearch tool for mobile phone users that would allow users in India to speak their queries rather than send text through their handsets. The only other country where Yahoo is offering this service outside the US is the event-host Singapore. The new voice-enabled OneSearch tool for India can be downloaded to phones from http://m.yahoo.com/voice while details will be found at http://in.mobile.yahoo.com Even amidst the high ambient noise level of the launch event in the middle of the exhibition floor, this correspondent found that the India-specific service recognised spoken queries like "Aishwarya Rai" or "Mumbai weather" when spoken by Indians with various accents. Yahoo engineers from India explained that they would monitor the success rate of the “Indian English” spoken search for some months, refining the voice recognition engine, before even attempting an extension to Indian languages. Yahoo! also announced that MTNL Mumbai had partnered to offer Yahoo OneSearch services on its mobile portal. In another deal revealed during CommunicAsia, Yahoo and Idea Cellular have entered into a strategic partnership whereby the former will sell and service a variety of graphical advertisements on the Indian carrier’s portal. The two partnerships were part of a slate of such announcements with telecom players in India, Philippines, Taiwan and Malaysia. Yahoo also announced availability of a new upgraded version (3.0) of its flagship mobile portal ‘Yahoo!Go’ across the Asia-Pacific region and Australia. More Stories on : Internet | Events | New Products & Services
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