Promptu Brings True Voice Powered Search To Mobile Phones

Promptu, a California based company is being reported by Mobilemodo and moconews as having launched a voice activated search application specifically for mobile phones.

Through the new mobile search program you can search for locations and multimedia content. Want to find a new song by your favorite artist? Simply say their name and voila, you have what you’re looking for.

Brady O Bruce, senoir vice president of trelecom Products and services is very enthusiastic about the new product. Backed by Promptu’s Distributed Speech Recognition (DSR) combined with the company’s Connected Rocogniton Engine (CoRE) the Promptu solution allows more flexibility as its service is backed by network servers as opposed to the power of the phone itself.

Another element that separates Promptu from the pack, is unlike familiar solutions, such as Dragons’ Naturally Speaking, there is NO training process, for the software.

You need it you use it.

Promptu Mobile shares market space with competitor V-Enable.

Looks like good technology to me, I just hope it’s not like the automated systems we have currently. Anytime you’re in a loud location or have bad reception, you get “I’m sorry, could you repeat that”. As long as it doesn’t do that I’m ready to roll.

Edit: Being server based as opposed to feeding from the unit definitely is a winning move, my concern then, shifts to networks and will they be able to handle widespread requests. Given the time and right programmers, this could really work.

Reminds me of Wildfire from years ago, which never was fully released into the public.