Now search is just a call away

Google allows users to phone a toll-free number and make a query.

Sharad Nanda from Pune is a kebab (meat dish) fan. On a trip to Delhi, he wanted to savour some kebabs. He could have easily phoned his friends for the exact location of eateries. Instead, he took out his cellphone, dialed a toll-free number and asked for kebab joints in a specified location. In less than a minute, he was given a choice of three places. He has much to thank the ‘voice search’, which internet search giant Google recently introduced in Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.

Nuance Launches 9 Languages For Speech Recognition

Nuance Communications has announced the availability of nine new Indian languages for speech recognition in the contact centre. The new language packs are available for Nuance Recognizer v9. The new languages now available, in addition to Hindi and Indian English, are Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telegu, Bengali, Gujrati, Oriya, and Punjabi. [click heading for more]

OnMobile acquires Telisma

OnMobile, India's Telecom Value Added Services (VAS) provider today announced that it has acquired 100% of the leading European Speech Recognition company, telisma.
The addition of telisma’s standards compliant speech recognition products & expertise will enable OnMobile to accelerate its penetration into fast growing emerging markets by developing new speech recognition language models. This technology enables quick and easy access to mobile applications and content and also strengthens OnMobile’s mobile applications product suite. [click heading for more]

OnMobile completes the largest global deployment of Nuance Speech Solutions

Nuance Communications, Inc, today announced that OnMobile has completed the largest global deployment of Nuance speech solutions for telecom value-added services (VAS). OnMobile provides services to leading Indian telecom operators, including Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone, Idea, BSNL and Tata Indicom.
OnMobile offers a multi-purpose VAS platform featuring a voice portal, ringback tones, M-commerce and mobile marketing. Powered by Nuance Voice Search, OnMobile’s portals deliver voice-enabled data and search calls to more than 280 million subscribers in India and more than 350 million users globally.
By partnering with Nuance to develop a complete and comprehensive language model for the Indian market, OnMobile now deploys services that support 15 major Indian languages - English, Hindi, Kannada, Telegu, Tamil, Malayalam ,Marathi, Gujarathi, Rajashthani, Punjabi, Haryanvi, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Assamese and Oriya. [click heading for more]