Voice Recognition and Mobile Search

Mobile search has been identified as one of those applications where Speech Recognition can become the killer app.  There are many instances in which speech recognition has been integrated with mobile devices, some of which include doing recognition embedded on the device, some others that perform the recognition on “the network” (a remote server farm) which then returns the results to the device, and some others rely on real human beings transcribing the contents of the request so they can be processed accordingly.

Then of course, comes the part of the search itself.  Some services for example, provide you with a list of links to Web pages (such as Google and Yahoo). Others, like ChaCha, uses humans to find the answers for you and then send you the response via text (and yes, you can become a “guide” for them). While some others attempt to integrate other features and capabilities of the devices such as the use of GPS and maps, or trigger subsequent reactions on other services such as changing your status in Facebook or Twitter (as is the case with Vlingo).

Now, if someone could simply find a way to use voice to find out where I left my phone, or my remote, or the car keys…