Talking to Your Phone
July 16, 2010 | Source: Technology Review
A new wave of smartphone apps combines speech recognition and artificial intelligence to help people carry out simple tasks on their mobile devices.
The latest such service, “SuperDialer” from Vlingo, combines a user’s spoken commands with personal data (such as address book) and information online. The forthcoming Vlingo Answers will attempt to answer a user’s question, using search engines and other Web sources.