{"id":8249,"date":"2009-05-22T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T09:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/yahoo-for-iphone-adds-voice-search\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:22:59","slug":"yahoo-for-iphone-adds-voice-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/yahoo-for-iphone-adds-voice-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! for iPhone adds voice search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/05\/searchy.gif\" alt=\"Speak up\u2026\" align=\"right\" \/>Fans of speech recognition will be interested to hear that Yahoo! has added a voice search facility to its popular <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.mobile.yahoo.com\/iphone\">iPhone client<\/a>. Disappointingly though, the new feature, which works in a similar way to the speech input within the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mobile\/apple\/\">Google Mobile App<\/a>, seems to be hard of hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Keen to further my knowledge of Australian music, I started by politely requesting &#8220;Kylie Minogue&#8221;. The program immediately returned an error saying it hadn&#8217;t understood me. I asked again, this time speaking louder and slower. Still nothing. After five attempts that returned errors, Yahoo! finally produced the results &#8211; for &#8220;a and aa&#8221;. Not only was this a million miles away from what I&#8217;d requested but I now looked a fool in front of the whole office. So, I thought I&#8217;d make things a bit easier for the voice recognition engine (and for my reputation) and said &#8220;hello&#8221;. Yahoo! thought I&#8217;d said &#8220;inn&#8221;. I tried &#8220;software&#8221; and it thought I said &#8220;cotton&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure whether it&#8217;s a general weakness in the functionality, or if it&#8217;s my refined English accent that&#8217;s causing the problem, but something&#8217;s definitely not right here. It annoys me that a company with a reputation such as Yahoo! would take the trouble to introduce such a potentially revolutionary function, and make it so poor as to be completely unusable. The voice search in Google isn&#8217;t much better, and that&#8217;s after having apparently added special support for English and Australian accents.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve managed to get the voice search in Yahoo! for iPhone working I&#8217;d be very interested to hear from you to find out what accent you have. And while you&#8217;re at it, could you find out Kylie Minogue&#8217;s tour dates for me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of speech recognition will be interested to hear that Yahoo! has added a voice search facility to its popular iPhone client. Disappointingly though, the new feature, which works in a similar way to the speech input within the Google Mobile App, seems to be hard of hearing. Keen to further my knowledge of Australian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/yahoo-for-iphone-adds-voice-search\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yahoo! for iPhone adds voice search&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2739],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-8249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionvoice-search"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335546,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions\/335546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}