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Holding a couple arm-fulls of groceries. Driving a car. Eating a bowl of cereal while combing your hair. There are too many instances throughout the day where your hands just aren’t free to mess around with your cellphone. And that’s where voice-control comes in. The latest rumblings from Redmond point to TellMe bringing voice commands to Windows Mobile 6.5. Unlike the BlackBerry lineup and Sprint Instinct and Instinct S30′s more limited application-based speech recognition, Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 OS will feature integrated system-wide voice controls, courtesy of Microsoft’s TellMe subsidiary.
According to Gizmodo, Microsoft is giving Windows Mobile 6.5 some serious speech-recognition support. WM6.5 will apparently use TellMe’s speech-to-action technology to give the user hands-free control over almost every aspect of their smartphone – sending text messages (including text transcription), searching the web, making phone calls. With a single click and a flick of the tongue, WM6.5 can find you the nearest pizza, local weather, text your friends or make a phone call.
With Android 1.5 expected to support voice commands, it makes sense that Microsoft make a big push into voice controls on Windows Mobile 6.5. Gizmodo says that WM6.5 should either come pre-loaded with TellMe or will be able to download the software for free.
[Via: Gizmodo]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
