TellMe, the voice-controlled java search app
Via techmeme we get to a Techcrunch article about a very promising startup: TellMe.
TellMe is a mobile local search service, much like Google Local Search. The key differentiating factor is that, unlike the very boring and annoying typing text messages or search queries, TellMe goes Java Mobile, and it does it reinventing the field: IT’S VOICE SEARCH, BABY!
TellMe mobile is a free Java application that you install on your phone. You can then find normal 411 information via a voice activated menu. Just hold the talk button and say the city and state you are searching in. Then say the business name. Phone and address information comes up on the screen. You can then call the business, see a map and/or get driving directions, and send the information to a friend via SMS. I’ve been testing Tell Me for the last two weeks on a Samsung SPH-A900 with Sprint, and I’m hooked (as is Oliver at MobileCrunch). The best part is that the service is completely free.
What’s more to say? We didn’t get the chance to test the app, since it’s closed beta for now. Besides, given that we are not US located might be an extra problem. Still, the potential of voice control is HUGE, the fact that the app is free is even better. What’s best is that TellMe might open the road for new cool startups in the mobile apps sector and VC interest. And we can all profit from it.
Here’s a small idea of how the whole process goes; pretty neat, huh?
Anyway.. read more about this on the following
MobileCrunch, Paul Kedrosky’s …, Search Engine Land, VC Ratings, The Apple Core, The Pondering Primate, jkOnTheRun, VentureBeat, C. Enrique Ortiz, O’Reilly Emerging Telephony, Screenwerk, All Points Blog and CrunchGear
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