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WOW, Video of Voice control app from...AT&T
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Posted by: JerryNY

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...ps_video. html

Who'da thunk it that AT&T might be developing their own stuff for the iPhone. This may or may not ever come to anything on the App Store but it sure is interesting. It looks similar to other apps I have seen on BB's so it isn't anything that is totally new but I never really though of AT&T doing development work on potential apps for the iPhone. I guess they could also easily do voice dialing as well with what demo there. Check it out.

Edit- of note they can do this stuff with AJAX, so it doesn't necessarily even have to run its own app, although they seem to be using a stand-alone app. Also on a more humorous level, the phone appears to be jailbroken - note the terminal app in the lower left of the home screen lol

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Posted by: KDarling

The web browser itself cannot capture and digitize your voice.

I bet that you have to be on a phone call to ATT's voice server at the same time.

You're clicking a web page button while on a phone call to a voice server, that tells the voice server to capture and decode whatever you say between taps (using AJAX transactions with the server).

Cute though. Could be very useful for web apps over WiFi or 3G.

I'm a fan of Microsoft's Live Search with voice recognition, and I've programmed voice apps on TellMe servers.

Voice beats the heck out of typing in the request. I love clicking a button on my WinMo phones and just saying "Mexican restaurant near Tuxedo New York" and getting a list and map. Blows away using Google on any phone.

Posted by: JerryNY

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Originally Posted by KDarling

The web browser itself cannot capture and digitize your voice.

I bet that you have to be on a phone call to ATT's voice server to do this.

Probably right, but I guess AT&T could implement it in a number of ways, no? I any event it is interesting to see AT&T doing some software work on the iPhone. Wasn't the deal originally with Apple that anything on the iPhone is Apple's territory? Now that there is an app store even AT&T can do apps, maybe AT&T may bring along the holy grail, M....M....S

Posted by: KDarling

I wouldn't say that AT&T is doing iPhone apps, per se.

What usually happens (I've been there myself) is that some engineer with an iPhone thought it was cool to take an existing demo web page and make it look good on his phone.

Then he shows his coworkers, and then a manager comes in and asks what's going on. Then he makes the guy show it to HIS boss, and up the ladder it goes until someone says, "Make a video to show off our Watson voice recognition to customers".

Anyway, thanks much for the video link. Clever stuff.