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Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

Talon Pro — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:43:00 -0000

How about the benefits of NOT texting while you're driving? As a motorcycle rider, i wanna yank certain people out of their vehicles and cram that cell phone somewhere more useful than their hands. This is even when I'm driving my 4 wheeled vehicle too. If people can audibly text vs. physically text while they are driving, via a headset preferably, it would be great. Even better if they would ban cell phone use unless blue tooth is active. This goes for cops too, i see too many of them driving with their phone glued to their ears while people run red lights right in front of them.

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

bob — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:07:00 -0000

Agreed - way too slow.

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

Kevin — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:43:00 -0000

The key here isn't to make it faster than texting with a physical keyboard, it's to serve as a compliment to a virtual keyboard for touchscreen devices.

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

tariq — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:44:00 -0000

Avatar, voice services were underutilized at a time when you would expect them to flourish. That is, during a time when hardware/throughput could not/would not support an intuitive means of acquiring or consuming data from a mobile handset. If it didn't manifest itself then why would we expect voice services to flourish now with the significant advancements in data input/retrieval on the handset? This service will go by the wayside just like every other mobile voice service.

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

John — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:34:00 -0000

Baw. Seems awfully slow to me, would rather type in the text I think.

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

Sanjayvc — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:25:00 -0000

Its not about touch or voice. Its about ease of use, ideally some combination of voice commands augmented by touch will hit the spot for most people.
As for Directory look-up, historically voice has had a cost associated with it while online has been free. Once both modes are free, i think voice is well suited to provide name and address details.

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

Avatar X — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:16:00 -0000

@tariq: you are seriously comparing networks, hardware,software and market ubiquity of 2009 to 2000?..it will work for the same reason that Touch in computers will work now as it failed to do in 2003. the technology is better, the hardware got more power, the software got more power. everything around them is cheaper and there is a actual market of people that can consume it.

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

tariq — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:40:00 -0000

I am trying to understand why a tellme IVR solution available to mobile handsets would be successful today if it was largely unsuccessful with AT&T Wireless back in early 2000. Clearly IVR solutions may have compensated then for poorly designed handset UI and data restricted networks. However, the roll out of higher capacity networks and more efficient mobile UI would suggest a reduction in demand for these voice services. Further to that point, none of the network/handset resident voice services have ever been successful with US carriers. Why would they be successful now?

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

Bryan Mistele — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:19:00 -0000

Note that Monday, Microsoft/TellMe announced an upgrade to their 411 services adding traffic and directions from INRIX. Clearly, Microsoft is beefing up its voice initiatives.

http://news.softpedia.com/n...

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

Bruce Lynch — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:14:00 -0000

If it saves time and works reliably it may catch on. The list of commands available will be important.

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:37:00 -0000

Using voice recognition to make text input easier is trying to fix something that's not broken.

Have you ever seen a 20 year old send a text message? From behind their back with their eyes closed? They prefer to send text than make an actual phone call. The data proves this to be true.

This might be attractive for the over-50 crowd, but few others will find value. C'mon Microsoft, spend you time on real problems.

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

hi — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:50:00 -0000

Is the woman in the background on a macbook? Nice..

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

Rich — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:36:00 -0000

Tell me looks sweet! I want it, why are they saying it will only be avaliable on WM 6.5 when it is clearly shown on an Samsung Omnia that is running 6.1?