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Introduction:Voice powered services on cell phones

In 2009, the cell phone market was dominated by news related to smartphones. Apple's iPhone garnered 30-40% of the cell phone market's profits. But smartphones make up just 10% of the worldwide handset market. Smartphones primarily rely on the phone's data connection for most applications running on the phone. Voice related applications have been pretty bad in terms of their utility. In late 2009, a slew of products are slowly changing the landscape and are finally meeting user expectations.

This is a list of some products in the voice driven applications space.

VoiceOnTheGo

[1] provides email access to most commercial free internet services. You can also post Facebook updates by speaking it on your phone.

Dial2Do

Dictate reminders orally and get reminders on your phone. Also enables email access to popular free web mail.

Nuance Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search

Nuance introduced iPhone apps mirroring their popular Dragon desktop products. You can dictate generic search queries and post them to twitter, google, facebook or text/email them. [2] has details.

Google Voice Search for iPhone and Android

Google provides voice enabled search products and voice enabled Google Map additions.

Google 411

1-800-GOOG-411 is a free directory assistance program.

iSpeech

iSpeech, Inc. offers APIs and SDK for Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech. Allows to convert blogs and documents to audio.

vLingo

[3] has a product powering voice queries.

Infinear.com Yahoo Mail Reader

[4] allows users to register their email and web sites or blog preferences. These will be read out on demand handsfree using voice commands.

Ribbit

[5] allows users to interact with Oracle CRM applications and salesforce.com products using voice commands.