Ask.com Mobile Directions: speak and navigate
Ask.com introduced a nice voice-activated system for navigation today by incorporating the speech-recognition technology of Dial Directions. Here's the skinny: if you hop over to Ask.com Mobile on your web-enabled phone, you'll see a new "Voice Entry" option next to Directions. Clicking said button initiates an phone call to the Dial Directions service. You'll have four prompts to jump through reply to and confirm: Destination city/state and street address and the same two parameters for your starting location.
Once you've spoken the information and completed the call, you'll receive an SMS message with a hyperlink to a set of turn by turn directions. The implementation looks solid, provided the speech-recognition side works well. I just tested it on my iPhone and had very positive results. The other benefit is that it should work on just about any phone with a browser. Give it a try or check this video demonstration to see if it could be useful for you.
I am struggling with this. What web address do I want to type into my iPhone to get to this Ask mobile service?
Posted by: Skip Coghill | January 03, 2008 at 08:22 PM
Sorry Skip. I have the link in the post but I probably should have written it out. Point your iPhone to http://m.ask.com and you should be all set.
Posted by: Kevin C. Tofel | January 03, 2008 at 08:28 PM