Voice is starting to make a big appearance on mobile devices. Microsoft’s been in the game for a while with Voice Command and TellMe on Windows Mobile and BlackBerry smartphones and a few other devices have had Nuance Voice Control on their devices for voice calls. Nuance has since introduced a dictation software called Dragon Dictation to the iPhone to allow users to dictate text, similar to composing an SMS message on Microsoft’s TellMe app, and now Nuance is bringing Dragon Search, a free app right now for the iPhone in the App Store, to allow you to search multiple engines in one app.
Dragon Search will compete with some established players in the mobile voice search market, including Bing and Google Search, which includes voice on select platforms. The difference here is that Nuance is making Dragon Search a cross-engine product, bringing search results in from Google, Wikipedia, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, and songs. Tap a button to speak and search, the program will spit out your results on a following page with a carousel at the top so you can move between search results on various search engines. It’s a nice, consolidated view of search results–one thing we wish it would do is integrate more web search engines, such as Ask, Bing, AOL, and Yahoo.

(via: MobileCrunch)
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