Microsoft and Apple haven’t always been the best of friends, but apparently Microsoft wants to make some cash off its opposition’s success: It was confirmed today that the company is developing an iPhone application.

YahooNews reports that Microsoft’s acquired company Tellme has plans to release a speech-recognition application by June of 2009. In the past, Tellme has developed similar services for other handsets, including the BlackBerry.
A complaint that
a few have expressed about the iPhone is its lack of speech-recognition capabilities. Despite the handset’s versatility, the iPhone can’t recognize voice commands to call a contact or activate a basic function, for example. Tellme would solve part of the problem by enabling voice-activated search for local businesses, among other queries.
No pricing info was released at this article’s writing, but expected to be in the $19.95 area more than likely.
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Posted on Sep 27th, 2008 by Rob Goodchild in iPhones Talk | 1 Comment
What's your opinion?
By June of 2009?
There are already free apps that use voice.
And I’m sure there will be many more… LONG before
we wait almost a year for TellMe to release theirs.