Voice Searches Now Available For BlackBerry

How's this for brand loyalty? Microsoft subsidiary Tellme has released an application that supports voice commands for smartphones. The execution is limited to searching for now, but that's not the where the loyalty question lies. The new program is designed for BlackBerry devices. Support for Windows Mobile phones is scheduled to follow.

Once users download the program, they can push on their phone's green "talk" button and say either the name of a business, type of business, or the keywords "weather," "movies," "traffic," "map" or "driving directions."

Using GPS, the system figures out where the user is located and delivers nearby results from Microsoft's Live Search engine to the smart phone's screen, along with links to call, get directions, buy movie tickets and other related actions.

Aside from Windows Mobile, iPhone and Helio versions of the program are in the works. If you're wondering why the application became available on BlackBerry first and not Windows Mobile, it's because of the former's support for Java.

Source: CNN

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