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Ask.com’s Voice Activated Mobile Directions
By Reshma Kumar at January 22, 2008 0 Comments
Ask.com is leveraging the core capability of what the mobile phone does best i.e. transit speech, to provide voice-activated directions. Ask.com Mobile announced that they’ve added a new option to their Directions service called Click to Speak. The feature lets Ask.com Mobile users verbally enter addresses by speaking instead of keying them in. Users can activate a voice activated directions service with a click and within seconds receive a text message with a link to directions.
Here’s a how-to video but basically, from your mobile device, you navigate to www.ask.com or http://m.ask.com, click on “Directions”, then click “Click to Speak the addresses - no typing” link, click the “Continue” link to start the service and follow the voice prompts to speak your start and desired end location. You will then receive a text message with a link to the directions.
Labels: Ask.com, Mobile Search, mobile web
