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Use the
source and the voice will follow. Google’s voice search for Apple’s iPhone,
that is.
Although
Google said they were prepared to ring their bells for the new voice search app
for the iPhone as early as Friday, Apple’s App Store remained silent to the
matter all through the week-end, since the feature was nowhere to be found.
Now sources
say that iPhone users should look for the application on Monday, when Apple is
expected to render the voice search to go live on their App Store. The reason:
some communication issues between the two companies.
The search
giant submitted the app for review to Apple Incorporated earlier this week,
while on Friday, the latter gave the go-ahead to the voice search tool, leaving
everybody to believe that it would hit the App Store that same day.
Nevertheless,
the update to the Google Mobile App for the iPhone is conspicuously
missing in action, raising questions about Apple’s procedures with regards to
third-party developers and their applications for the company’s gadgets.
The voice search software, which will come free of any
charge for iPhone users, enables the latter to ask their smartphone any
questions, the sound of their voice being afterwards made into a digital file. Then, the file is sent to Google’s servers, which will make out the words
before pushing it forward to the company’s search engine.
In a blink of an eye, the iPhone will then display the
results for the queries, along with some local information, where possible.
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